An Adventure

Renowned 20th-century authors Moberly and Jourdain describe a visit they made to the Petit Trianon, a small château on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles. At the chateau, they see the chilling sight of the gardens as they had been in the late eighteenth century. Moberly and Jourdain cross paths with several terrifying ghosts of famous figures including Marie Antoinette.

Hugh Dempsey recounts his interesting and varied careers as journalist, historian, archivist and museum administrator.

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

A caveboy and his dinosaur friend go on an adventure in a book where objects and activities represent each letter of the alphabet.

An outdoor activity guide for boys outlines nature-themed craft projects while explaining how to develop proficient skills in areas ranging from reading topographic maps and identifying birds to using a compass and providing first-aid for injuries.

A facsimile edition of the tattered notebooks of the Unknown Adventurer, this love letter to the wild details everything you need to know about how to live and thrive in nature, from the principles of treehouse building to wilderness first aid. If you are reading this, it means my notebooks have been found. I am leaving them here at camp for safekeeping along with a few other belongings that I won’t be taking with me. The notebooks are a lifetime’s worth of knowledge, which I’m passing on the you. So reads an excerpt from the weatherworn letter discovered by nature enthusiast Teddy Keen on a recent trip to the Amazon, along with sketchbooks filled with details of extraordinary adventures and escapades, expedition advice, and survival methods, annotated with captivating colored-pencil drawings. It is thought that the sketchbooks were created for two young relatives of the author. Drawing on Teddy’s knowledge of the outdoors, the pages of the sketchbooks have been carefully transcribed for young readers, as they were originally intended. You’ll be transported by riveting adventure tales from around the globe, like being dragged off by a hyena in Botswana, surviving a Saharan dust storm, being woken by an intrepid emperor penguin in Antarctica, and coming face-to-face with a venomous bushmaster (one of the most dangerous snakes on the planet)—all told in lyrical prose and illustrations that wonder at the mysterious beauty of the wild. Having inspired the adventurous spirit in you, the Unknown Adventurer encourages you to set out on your own adventure with information on wild camping, rafting, exploration, and shelters and dens, plus tips on first aid and tying knots. Expert instructions on wilderness basics, like building a fire, what to do if you get lost, and how to build various types of shelters are accompanied by more specific skills culled from many years of experience, like baking campfire bread, creating a toothbrush from a twig, making a suture from soldier ants, and even how to pan for gold. Find your way back to your primal self with the immersive text and glorious color artwork of this one-of-a-kind adventure book. REMEMBER: be good, be adventurous…and look after your parents.

An Adventure in Missions is a personal and exciting adventure in life. -Discover a roadmap and guide to your adventure. -Discover many experiences you can learn from. -Discover things you can expect to happen. -Read about choices and results. This is a basic resource manual for anyone interested in missions. It traces a missionary experience, beginning with the call, preparation, service and the dazzling experiences of missionary life. Its an adventurous, humorous, tumultuous, and exciting road map to missions. Youll laugh and cry. There are important lessons in each experience and theyll help you in your life adventure. There are ways to recognize your call, preparations that need to be made, things youll need to work on and why they are important, plus how to recognize key people in your life and develop a ministry support team. You will also learn about things to avoid.

There are several worlds within this one, unimaginable situations, adventure, dangers and strong emotions where in a trip to the heart of the Amazon Forest, Noé Costa and a Swiss doctor visited a wild tribe and felt in the skin the fear and the flavor of the adventure. This challenge would only have begun determined but the end can only be written thanks to the help of God, that allowed me to make that report.