topic:"Sailing" found 1 record - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Pertains to the travels of Thor Heyerdahl, John Ridgeway, Chay Blyth, John Fairfax, Sylvia Cook, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, David Lewis, Wilfred Thesiger, John Blashford-Snell, Mike Jones, Maurice Herzog, John Hunt, Herbert Tichy, Walter Bonatti, Hermann Buhl, Reinhold Messner, Vivian Fuchs, Edmund Hillary, Wally Herbert, Naomie Uemura, Max Anderson, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, Neil Armstrong, Geoff Yeadon, Oliver Statham

Contents: Introduction; Oceans:; 1) Kon-tiki; 2) Rowing the Atlantic; 3) Across Two Oceans; 4) The Man Who Raced Himself; 5) Golden Globe; 6) Ice Bird; Deserts:; 7) The Empty Quarter; Rivers:; 8) The Blue Nile; Mountains:; 9) Annapurna, the First 1800; 10) The Challenge of Everest; 11) Cho Oyu; 12) The Bonatti Pillar; 13) Board Peak; 14) Annapurna, South Face; 15) Diamir - Messner on Nanga Parbat; The Poles:; 16) The Crossing of Antarctica; 17) The Last Great Polar Journey; 18) Solo to the Pole; Air:; 19) Double Eagle; Space:; 20) First on the Moon; Beneath the Earth:; 21) Dead Man's Handshake; Facets of Adventure; A Chronology of Adventure since 1945; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Picture Credits; Index

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