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The Bucko Mate: Twenty Years in the Merchant Marine    by Kevin Zahn
Price: $3.99 USD. 141890 words. Language: English. Published on November 11, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.

The Bucko Mate describes the author's seafaring experiences sailing as an officer in the American merchant marine. Mates lived a colorful life few have ever experienced. From the storms, fog, waterfront bars and union halls, to the near collisions, deaths at sea, fights, dangerous cargo and foreign lands, it is an exciting life. This is my way of getting some of that colorful era written down.
Regrets - Maybe Just 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.
Eagles in the flesh    by Erik Kaye
Price: $2.99 USD. 63300 words. Language: English. Published on June 21, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers.

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Based on a true story about wild men who become birds at will, who soar like Eagles over Mountains and Jungles, who dance among the up drafts and get sucked into thunder storms, who watch life flash before their eyes and riding emergency parachutes. Encounter the Dinosaurs, the Russians, the Brazilians, and the Black Canyon. Experience car wrecks, bar fights, drug abuse,laughter sex and death.
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...
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.