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Regrets - Maybe A Few    by Murray Raynes
Price: $5.00 USD. 122260 words. Language: Australian English. Published on May 13, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.

After a normal adolescence; equally adept in the classroom and on the sporting fields, Murray moved out into the world with a feeling that whatever needed to be done, he could do it or at the very least he’d give it a try.
Larger Than Life: The Exploits of the Miner and Adventurer David E. Buel    by Edward Slagle
Price: $3.99 USD. 12220 words. Language: English. Published on April 17, 2013. Nonfiction » History » American.

Mariner, soldier, prospector, sheriff, legislator, Indian agent, politician, town founding father, mining district developer, mining magnate, bon vivant, civic leader, philanthropist, explorer, businessman, promoter…. David E. Buel did it all in his lifetime.
Bernard-Henri Lévy    by Heinz Duthel
Price: $9.90 USD. 271160 words. Language: English. Published on April 12, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.

Bernard-Henri Lévy Imposteur intellectuel or the News French Fastfood Philosopy Lévy is a pre-eminent journalist, having started his career as a war reporter for Combat, the famous underground newspaper founded by Camus during the Nazi occupation of France.
Tribes and Trappers: A History of Montana, Volume One    by Greg Strandberg
Price: $9.99 USD. 32340 words. Language: English. Published on April 1, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

Montana’s history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated history. See how Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger blazed trails and made their names under the Big Sky. Read about John Colter, Hugh Glass, Mike Fink, and more. Discover the Blackfeet, Shoshone, Crow, Cheyenne, and the dinosaurs that came before them. Montana's history comes alive like it never has before.
A Way of Life    by Alec Rainey
Price: $4.99 USD. 89920 words. Language: English. Published by Austin Macauley  on March 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.

Alec Rainey, who is English, after training in cattle management with the 'gauchos' in Argentina, emigrated to Australia in 1966 to work as a jackeroo on a vast cattle station in the Northern Territory, in the Barkly Tableland. They also taught him the art of fashioning stone spearheads and other skills related to survival.He has used extensive notes he took at the time to write this book.
¿Asi Que Desea ‘SER’ Un Apicultor?    by David/Max Curtis
Price: $2.99 USD. 21800 words. Language: Spanish. Published on March 19, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.

Emociones y sobresaltos de una familia apicultora. El primer volumen de una trilogía, este primer título abarca los primeros años en que la familia se inició en la apicultura, entre 1960 y 1972. La historia se ubica en Oregón del sur y relata una época de inocencia y de grandes recompensas de las naturaleza, enmarcadas por un ambiente rústico.
He Did What??!!?!    by Michael Leggero
Price: $2.99 USD. 38290 words. Language: English. Published on February 26, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Mike Leggero is one of the most interesting people around. If you share the theory of enjoying life and spreading comedy and happiness then you will love this book. His adventures impact people all over the planet. This book is a collection of short stories that will make you laugh, and shake your head in disbelief all at the same time.
50 Tales of Flight: From Biplanes to Boeings    by Owen Zupp
Price: $3.95 USD. 60940 words. Language: English. Published on February 23, 2013. Nonfiction » Transportation » Aviation / History.

In “50 Tales of Flight”, the reader is not simply taken aloft in everything from biplanes to Boeings as the title may suggest. True, the flight deck door has been cracked ajar and the canvas cover pulled back from the open cockpit, but this book is built from the ground up. From the alarm clock buzzing to begin the airline pilot’s day to the sound of silence when a light aircraft engine fails...
Juan Patrón: A Fallen Star in the Days of Billy the Kid    by Paul Tsompanas
Price: $1.99 USD. 65080 words. Language: English. Published by Brandylane  Publishers on February 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography.

Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West. Reputed for his heroics, Patrón tried to tame a frontier plagued with violence, illiteracy and greed - first as a teacher, then as a desperado hunter, and eventually as a speaker of the territorial house of New Mexico - before meeting his fate at the hands of a Texas cowboy in a dramatic showdown.
A Lifetime of Small Adventures    by Bill Birnbaum
Price: $0.99 USD. 56840 words. Language: English. Published on February 13, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

An adventurer’s stories from childhood to senior years including crash landing in a small plane in rural Mexico and surviving numerous close-call hitchhiking experiences. At age 64, when turned down by the Peace Corps’ medical department, Bill and his wife sold their home and moved to Peru where they created their own volunteer opportunities. If you love adventure, this book's for you.