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Title: Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson, John Rugge, Joan Rugge ISBN: 0-670-81950-6 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Adventure Story Ever
Comment: Why don't more people know about this book? It puts most adventure stories to shame and makes most survivors of "hardships" look like wimps. Adventurers with virtually no prior experience, wearing wool sweaters and cotton pants, carrying tons of food, canoe and portage through uncharted waters only to get hopelessly lost. Between the bugs, cold, lack of food, etc... you wonder how any could survive. The concepts of leadership, friendship and conquest are tested. After a harrowing adventure ending in death, the widow of the expedition leader races a team member into the wilds of Labrador the following year. In 1905, it was hard enough for a man to make this unprecedented trip, and unheard of for a woman to try. It is a must read for all adventure lovers!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: Excellent read - hard to put it down.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very Disappointing
Comment: I personally found the *gritty* style of this book annoying. I knew it was an intimate look at the circumstances surrounding the disasterous Hubbard expedition and the subsequent journey undertaken by his wife Mina, but this account reads more like a 1950s pulp novel or a Louis L'amour western. The prose is choppy and entirely too chatty, sinking at times to a veritable nadir of banality: "George stepped off the Williamstown train, feeling like a fox ready to have his heart pulled." (whatever hell that means), or "...a lot of trappers weren't interested in the idea of foolin' with someone dead" (too folksy). In short it's a slipshod narrative history written in the vein of an adolescent adventure story.
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Title: The Complete Wilderness Paddler by John Rugge, James West Davidson ISBN: 039471153X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 December, 1982 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl ISBN: 0671726528 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: First Footsteps in East Africa; Or, an Exploration of Harar by Richard F. Burton ISBN: 0486254755 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, Peter P. Hinks, Gerald Fulkerson ISBN: 0300087012 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti ISBN: 0316739111 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 03 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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