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Dragon’s Teeth
Dragon’s Teeth © 2017 Michael Crichton288 pages Scientific discovery isn’t always a gentlemanly affair. Dragon’s Teeth, published by the estate of Michael Crichton in his name, inserts a fictional character into the real-life feud of two paleontologists who went to such … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, archaeology, dinosaurs, historical fiction, Michael Crichton, science fiction
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Cities of Gold
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado© 1992 Douglas Preston (Walter Nelson, Photographs)480 pages Sometimes, history has got to be pursued from the back of a horse. Douglas Preston wasn’t sure what took him … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, American Southwest, American West, Arizona, Douglas Preston, ecology, Native America, New Mexico, Spain, stewardship, travel
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood© 1883 Howard Pyle648 pages, Duke Classics Edition. (Other editions seem to have anywhere from 200 to 400 pages, which is odd.) You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to … Continue reading
The Journey Home
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West© 1977 Edward Abbey242 pages The desert is no place for decent men, which is why Edward Abbey likes it so much. Born on the eastern seaboard, on a farm … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, American Southwest, American West, Arizona, Edward Abbey, environmentalism, essays, Nature, New Mexico
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White Fang
White Fang© 1906 Jack Londonpp. 1- 101, Tales of the North. “An’ right here I want to remark,’ Bill went on, ‘that that animal’s familiarity with camp-fires is suspicious an’ immoral.’‘It knows for certain more’n a self-respectin’ wolf ought to … Continue reading
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey© 1986 Arthur C. Clark, Stanley Kubrick316 pgs At the dawn of the twenty-first century, mankind makes an extraordinary discovery: unmistakable evidence of life outside the environs of Earth. An object on the moon makes plain the … Continue reading
Prince Caspian
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia © 1951 C.S. Lewis 195 pages Once upon a time four children stumbled through an ordinary-looking wardrobe into another world altogether, a place called Narnia where they became its kings and … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, C.S.Lewis, children's literature, Children-YA, fantasy, Narnia
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