http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=922 Copyright © 2013 Lybrary.comhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-eternity-of-being-a-global-explorer-p-292387.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-eternity-of-being-a-global-explorer-p-292387.htmlSun, 12 May 2013 22:32:44 EDT Markham, an early pioneer in aviation, was a passionate, free-spirited girl struggling to come to terms with her identity and her place in the world. This biography tells of the obstacles she faced and how she overcame adversity to follow her dreams of flying. http://www.lybrary.com/beryl-markham-never-turn-back-p-291338.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/beryl-markham-never-turn-back-p-291338.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 03:44:51 EDT In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.<p>Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve of South Africa. Tucker—then a successful advertising executive—and a group of fellow travelers found themselves surrounded by a pride of angry lions. There was no way out, night had fallen, and the battery in their only flashlight was beginning to flicker. Miraculously, a local medicine woman, with two youngsters in tow, passed, trancelike and fearless, through the lions and escorted them all to safety.<p>For Tucker, that life-threatening experience became a life-changing one. She abandoned her career, left Europe, and returned to Timbavati to track down the medicine woman who had saved her: Maria Khosa. Upon seeing Tucker again, Khosa only smiled and said, "What took you so long?" She had been expecting her, and there was so much to do. Under Khosa's shamanic tutelage, Tucker learned of her sacred destiny: to be the "keeper of the white lions," believed to be angelic beings sent to Earth to save humanity at a time of crisis. Khosa also prophesized that the queen of the white lions—the embodiment of the mother of Ra, the sun god—would soon be born, on a day and in a place considered holy by Westerners.<p>On December 25, 2000, in the little South Africa town of Bethlehem, a snowy white lion cub, Marah, was born. From the moment of her first meeting with Marah, Tucker's story immediately takes off into battle, as she dedicates her every waking moment to prying Marah and her siblings from the grips of the trophy-hunting industry.<p>Compellingly written in the intimate style of a journal, Tucker describes with unflinching honesty her fears, doubts, hopes, and dreams, all the while unfolding for us an unforgettable tale of adventure, romance, spirituality, and most of all, justice.http://www.lybrary.com/saving-the-white-lions-one-womans-battle-for-africas-most-sacred-animal-p-289514.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/saving-the-white-lions-one-womans-battle-for-africas-most-sacred-animal-p-289514.htmlSat, 04 May 2013 14:35:45 EDT One will find it easy to love the clear, cold, cascading waters of the mountain streams, breathe the sweet, fresh fragrance of the forests and fields and experience the freedom of the, "Great Out of Doors," as you journey with the author through the true, clean, personal short stories in this book.http://www.lybrary.com/on-the-wild-side-a-collection-of-short-stories-about-the-great-outdoors-p-287437.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/on-the-wild-side-a-collection-of-short-stories-about-the-great-outdoors-p-287437.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2013 13:35:26 EDT Already awarded a prize by the Biographer's Club, Harriet Tuckey's book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith Pugh, whose role was absolutely pivotal, yet mostly untold. As the expedition's physiological consultant, Pugh designed almost every aspect of the survival strategy for the expedition, the acclimatization program, the oxygen- and fluid-intake regime, the diet, the clothing and the high altitude boots. Without him and his work, the ascent of Everest would have been impossible.http://www.lybrary.com/everest-the-first-ascent-how-a-champion-of-science-helped-to-conquer-the-mountain-p-287162.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/everest-the-first-ascent-how-a-champion-of-science-helped-to-conquer-the-mountain-p-287162.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2013 00:31:40 EDT André-François Bourbeau turned his passion for the outdoors into a celebrated career as a ground-breaking researcher and teacher of primitive wilderness survival. These are his first-hand stories, always informative, gritty, and sometimes hilarious. What emerges is one man's everlasting love of the wilderneshttp://www.lybrary.com/wilderness-secrets-revealed-adventures-of-a-survivor-p-285930.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/wilderness-secrets-revealed-adventures-of-a-survivor-p-285930.htmlSat, 27 Apr 2013 14:31:31 EDT A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss.http://www.lybrary.com/man-proposes-god-disposes-recollections-of-a-french-pioneer-p-278512.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/man-proposes-god-disposes-recollections-of-a-french-pioneer-p-278512.htmlFri, 12 Apr 2013 19:38:23 EDT <p>A largely untold story of an extraordinary historical figure, this biography sheds light on the life of William Sheppard, a 19th-century African American who, for more than 20 years, defied segregation and operated a missionary run by black Americans in the Belgian Congo. This work shows how Sheppard returned to the United States periodically, and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to packed auditoriums. An anthropologist, photographer, big-game hunter, and art collector, the man billed as the "Black Livingstone" helped expose the atrocities that occurred under the reign of King Leopold, and this stirring work tells how he eventually helped to break Belgium's hold on the Congo.http://www.lybrary.com/black-livingstone-a-true-tale-of-adventure-in-the-nineteenthcentury-congo-p-274125.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/black-livingstone-a-true-tale-of-adventure-in-the-nineteenthcentury-congo-p-274125.htmlMon, 01 Apr 2013 20:31:16 EDT From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the most-launched astronaut in history, as well as a NASA veteran whose career spanned the entire US Space Shuttle program. From his childhood in rural Indiana, through education at Purdue University, and a career in the US Air Force, Ross charted a path to NASA after overcoming many setbacks-from failing to qualify for Air Force pilot training because of "bad" eyesight, to an initial failure to be selected into the astronaut program. The majority of the book is an insider's account of the US Space Shuttle program, including the unforgettable experience of launch, the delights of weightless living, and the challenges of constructing the International Space Station. Ross is a uniquely qualified narrator. During seven spaceflights, he spent 1,393 hours in space, including 58 hours and 18 minutes on nine space walks. Life on the ground is also described, including the devastating experiences of the Challenger and Columbia disasters. For readers who have followed the space program from Mercury through the International Space Station and wonder what comes next, this book provides fascination; for young people interested in space exploration and reaching for their dreams, whatever they might be, this book provides inspiration. Full of stories of spaceflight that few humans have ever experienced, told with humor and honesty, Spacewalker presents a unique perspective on the hard work, determination, and faith necessary to travel beyond this world. Key Points: -An insider's account of the US Space Shuttle program, from before its first launch through the final landing, and the building of the International Space Station. -A firsthand account of life in space from the first human to fly seven missions. -An inspirational story of a personal journey from rural Indiana to outer space, powered by a deep Christian faith.http://www.lybrary.com/spacewalker-my-journey-in-space-and-faith-as-nasas-recordsetting-frequent-flyer-p-272825.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/spacewalker-my-journey-in-space-and-faith-as-nasas-recordsetting-frequent-flyer-p-272825.htmlMon, 25 Mar 2013 06:37:55 EDT On November 23, 1942, German U-Boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes. The sole survivor was a second steward named Poon Lim, who, with no knowledge of the sea, managed to stay alive for 133 days on a small wooden raft. Finally rescued at the mouth of the Amazon River, Poon was hailed as the "World's Champion Survivor." He still holds the Guinness World Record for survival at sea.http://www.lybrary.com/sole-survivor-p-266303.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/sole-survivor-p-266303.htmlThu, 07 Mar 2013 22:41:44 EST <span><span><span>"A visionary and a madman" was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend</span><span> by Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself proclaimed and crowned King of Corsica. </span></span><br /></span>http://www.lybrary.com/theodore-von-neuhoff-king-of-corsica-the-man-behind-the-legend-p-265853.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/theodore-von-neuhoff-king-of-corsica-the-man-behind-the-legend-p-265853.htmlWed, 06 Mar 2013 12:43:08 EST Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is a highly respected figure in history of geology and paleontology. Perhaps his most notable contribution to his field was his discovery of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil discoveries ever made. In addition to his distinguished field work, Walcott's career included years of service as an administrative leader in the scientific community; as director of the U.S. Geological Survey, as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, as organizer of the National Space an Aeronautics Administration, as a founding member of the National Research Council, and as president of the National Academy of Sciences. Smithsonian Institution Secretary continues the story Ellis L. Yochelson began in Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist (1998). Using Walcott?s letters and journals and the recollections of friends and colleagues, Yochelson discusses Walcott?s life and career as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. As secretary, he worked tirelessly to revitalize the dispirited organization, fighting for funding, recognition and support from presidents, Congress, and the general public. During his tenure, the Institution flourished. He is credited with building the Freer Gallery of Art and with laying the foundations for the National Air and Space Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Museum of American Art. Accompanies by illustrations, photographs from private collections and the Smithsonian Archives, this straightforward biography of Charles Doolittle Walcott offers readers a look at the life and career of this important but little know American scientist.http://www.lybrary.com/smithsonian-institution-secretary-charles-doolittle-walcott-p-263965.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/smithsonian-institution-secretary-charles-doolittle-walcott-p-263965.htmlFri, 01 Mar 2013 08:36:10 EST J. Richard "Dick" Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the consistency of wet cardboard. There were some 6,000 pieces in all, and Steffy's job was to put them all back together in their original shape like some massive, ancient jigsaw puzzle.<BR>He had volunteered for the job even though he had no qualifications for it. For twenty-five years he'd been an electrician in a small, land-locked town in Pennsylvania. He held no advanced degrees—his understanding of ships was entirely self-taught. Yet he would find himself half a world away from his home town, planning to reassemble a ship that last sailed during the reign of Alexander the Great, and he planned to do it using mathematical formulas and modeling techniques that he'd developed in his basement as a hobby.<BR>The first person ever to reconstruct an ancient ship from its sunken fragments, Steffy said ships spoke to him. Steffy joined a team, including friend and fellow scholar George Bass, that laid a foundation for the field of nautical archaeology. Eventually moving to Texas A&M University, his lack of the usual academic credentials caused him to be initially viewed with skepticism by the university's administration. However, his impressive record of publications and his skilled teaching eventually led to his being named a full professor. During the next thirty years of study, reconstruction, and modeling of submerged wrecks, Steffy would win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant and would train most of the preeminent scholars in the emerging field of nautical archaeology.<BR>Richard Steffy's son Loren, an accomplished journalist, has mined family memories, archives at Texas A&M and elsewhere, his father's papers, and interviews with former colleagues to craft not only a professional biography and adventure story of the highest caliber, but also the first history of a field that continues to harvest important new discoveries from the depths of the world's oceans.http://www.lybrary.com/the-man-who-thought-like-a-ship-p-261847.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-man-who-thought-like-a-ship-p-261847.htmlFri, 22 Feb 2013 15:27:15 EST It is 1979 in Eastern Europe, Romania - A bad year in the heavy-footed, deadly Communist Era under the Russian dominance. Two young men plan and manage to escape (risking their lives every step of the way) from the Iron Curtain and reach an International Refugee Camp in Italy, sponsored by the Catholic Church. The two think that they finally had it made when they get there but it turns out shortly that this is a very dangerous place where people die almost every day. They make connections, passionate alliances and they will survive this stage, much enriched and emotionally bruised. - The story is largely true (timelines, locations, geographical details, people and traditions, complete with challenges, dangers, emotions, hopes and fears). How we know is true? It is my personal story - Mike Anka, the Author.http://www.lybrary.com/white-thirst-surviving-a-new-life-p-261742.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/white-thirst-surviving-a-new-life-p-261742.htmlFri, 22 Feb 2013 07:32:15 EST It is 1979 in Eastern Europe, Romania - A bad year in the heavy-footed, deadly Communist Era under the Russian dominance. Two young men plan and manage to escape (risking their lives every step of the way) from the Iron Curtain and reach an International Refugee Camp in Italy, sponsored by the Catholic Church. The two think that they finally had it made when they get there but it turns out shortly that this is a very dangerous place where people die almost every day. They make connections, passionate alliances and they will survive this stage, much enriched and emotionally bruised. - The story is largely true (timelines, locations, geographical details, people and traditions, complete with challenges, dangers, emotions, hopes and fears). How we know is true? It is my personal story - Mike Anka, the Author.http://www.lybrary.com/white-thirst-surviving-a-new-life-p-261741.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/white-thirst-surviving-a-new-life-p-261741.htmlFri, 22 Feb 2013 07:32:10 EST Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men who rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written. On one level it is the life story of Booker T. Washington and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. On another level it the story of how an entire race strove to better itself. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would find out that he had indeed worked a great deal for civil rights anonymously behind the scenes. Twelve Years a Slave is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York. He was kidnaped by unscrupulous slave hunters and sold into slavery where he endured unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or more than any other book to motivate the abolitionist to continue to fight for freedom in American. Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system, and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. This is one of the most unlikely and powerful success stories ever written.http://www.lybrary.com/a-will-to-be-free-vol-1-p-261199.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/a-will-to-be-free-vol-1-p-261199.htmlThu, 21 Feb 2013 00:32:10 EST This is a story of two young men, fresh from school, as they travel in search of knowledge about the world and themselves. Trying to reach Africa on motor scooters, they nearly circle the Mediterranean. The impulses and questions they have are archetypal: similar tales can be told by and of many others who have undertaken their own quests at the turning point between formal education and the decisions that will shape the rest of their lives.http://www.lybrary.com/wanderjahr-an-odyssey-of-sorts-p-260305.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/wanderjahr-an-odyssey-of-sorts-p-260305.htmlTue, 19 Feb 2013 02:33:59 EST http://www.lybrary.com/livingstone-revised-and-expanded-edition-p-259101.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/livingstone-revised-and-expanded-edition-p-259101.htmlSat, 16 Feb 2013 00:31:56 EST This book tells the story of a French cabin boy, Narcisse Pelletier, and his life with the Uutaalnganu people of north-east Cape York from 1858 to 1875. Even though it is all but forgotten in Australia, and in France is known only in its broad outlines, Pelletier's story rivals that of the famous William Buckley, both as a tale of human survival and as an enthralling and accessible ethnographic record. Narcisse Pelletier, from the village of Saint-Gilles-sur-Vie, was fourteen years old when the Saint-Paul was wrecked near Rossel Island off New Guinea in 1858. Leaving behind more than 300 Chinese labourers recruited for the Australian goldfields - believed to have been subsequently massacred by the Rossel Islanders - the ship's captain and crew, including the cabin boy, escaped in a longboat. After a gruelling voyage across the Coral Sea, they landed near Cape Direction on Cape York, where Pelletier found himself abandoned when the boat sailed off without him. He was rescued by an Aboriginal family and remained with them as a member of their clan until 1875 when he was sighted by the crew of a pearling lugger. 'Rescued' against his will, Pelletier was conveyed to Sydney and then repatriated to France. The author, Stephanie Anderson, came across Pelletier's story by chance in an old French anthropological journal. As she started researching it, her fascination with the story grew. She found that Pelletier had left an account of his experiences, first published in 1876, that had never been translated into English. Now, for the very first time, this remarkable story is available to read in English, complemented by an ethnographic commentary by anthropologist Athol Chase and an in-depth introduction by Anderson. Pelletier: The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York is required reading for anyone with an interest in Australian history, anthropology, or the intriguing world of pre-colonial Aboriginal life.http://www.lybrary.com/pelletier-p-258651.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/pelletier-p-258651.htmlWed, 13 Feb 2013 13:01:26 EST At the height of his fame Alby Mangels was more than just an international household name - he was a legend! His blockbuster travel documentaries - The World Safari series - blazed a path into untamed territories. He explored the world and took us along. With an irrepressible spirit of adventure, his bull terrier by his side and a crew of willing accomplices, Alby's daring and dangerous exploits catapulted this very private person from obscurity to superstardom. He posed nude for Cleo magazine after he quietly started a charity for paraplegics behind the limelight. He was accused of animal cruelty after throwing himself into a crocodile infested river to rescue a small fawn who'd inadvertently become stranded. He was labelled as nothing more than a lady's man yet behind the scenes he won an award for a revolutionary wheelchair design, established help for the world's endangered mountain gorillas and volunteered to visit hospices and jails. Such is the enigma of the misunderstood and often maligned man. Few are aware that shortly after World Safari 2 out-grossed Hollywood blockbusters released in the same year, Alby lost his empire, his fortune and his reputation. Over the fifteen years that followed he quietly rose again, like a phoenix from the ashes while helping the world's suffering along the way and yet never once seeking to declare his benevolence or address his critics. It's time to rectify the situation, it's time the world knew the truth behind the legend that is Alby Mangels.http://www.lybrary.com/alby-mangels-beyond-world-safari-p-258645.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/alby-mangels-beyond-world-safari-p-258645.htmlWed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:47 EST