High Adventure

A personal record of the author's mountain climbing experiences, including the Everest Expedition of 1953.

One man’s quest to make history—and a lot of money: “High entertainment” from the three-time Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery (Elmore Leonard). Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has a dream—to make lots and lots of money. So when a local official offers him a back-jungle tract of land he swears would make a perfect cattle ranch, Kirby jumps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, he lands himself in a swamp—that he now owns. Kirby begins selling homemade “artifacts” from his property to American museums and witless tourists, even building a fake ancient temple and recruiting a tribe of Mayan Indians who know a good scam when they see one. But his cash-cow paradise soon attracts the attention of two snooping New York reporters, a beautiful archaeologist from UCLA, and a troop of Guatemalan guerillas just itching to shoot somebody. Kirby is going to have to talk fast, move faster, and pull out every dirty trick he knows if he’s going to get out of this alive . . . “I thoroughly enjoyed High Adventure.” —Elmore Leonard “Westlake at his best: intriguing, fast moving . . . Ends with a slam-bang climax.” —Los Angeles Times Praise for Donald E. Westlake “Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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This story is about seven college students delivering the new sailboat Bounder, to Florida from Maine. Everything starts nicely but then goes downhill. Ghosts and death visit on the high seas. Four crew members spend time in a dungeon but save a twenty year old kid. Eventually they do get to Florida and then back to college in Maine. Meet the kids in the ceiling, Pablo and his whip and Uncle Joe who has twenty-four bedrooms on the second fl oor of his summer house. This story you can t put down! Enjoy HIGH ADVENTURE!

High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France' was written by James Norman Hall. One might find this book, although an exciting narrative, has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress.

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In a memoir by the first man to reach the peak of Everest, Hillary discusses the adventures that shaped his life, from the South Pole to the Ganges River.

What happens when an accomplished adventurer becomes a father? Does he continue his solo adventures? Is there a way of having it all, family time plus adventures?