Download or read book First Overland written by Tim Slessor and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys – half way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the desrts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were ‘just too many rivers and too few roads'. But no-one really knew … In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had no money, no cars, nothing. But with a cool audacity, which was to become characteristic, they set to work – wheedling and cajoling. First, they coaxed the BBC to come up with some film for a possible TV series. They then gently persuaded the manufacturers to lend them two factory-fresh Land Rovers. A publisher was even sweet-talked into giving them an advance on a book. By the time they were ready to go, their sponsors (more than 80 of them) ranged from whiskey distillers to the makers of collapsible buckets. In late 1955, they set off. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two very weary Land Rovers, escorted by police outriders, rolled into Singapore – to flash bulbs and champagne. Now, fifty years on, their book, ‘First Overland', is republished – with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. After all, it was he who gave them that film.
Download or read book An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 written by Horace Greeley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journey to the North of India written by Arthur Conolly and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overland Journey to California written by James Bennett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1906 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Overland Journey to California: Journal of James Bennett Whose Party Left New Harmony in 1850 and Crossed the Plains and Mountains Until the Golden West Was Reached The ruddy glow shone sparkling up on the bosom oi the river and exposed the course for the canoes loaded with friends who were coming to speak a last farewell The journal says the argonauts and visitors danced upon the grassy bank of the river and passed the last night in an attempt to drive away painful reflections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 written by Horace Greeley and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1860 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Overland Journey written by Horace Greeley and published by Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms. This book was released on 1966 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of Horace Greeley's journey from New York to San Francisco in 1859.
Download or read book An Overland Journey Round the World written by Sir George Simpson and published by Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard. This book was released on 1847 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commentary, Simpson observations include much commentary on the degree of "civilization" among various peoples and the results thereof--often not positive, especially with regards to the impact of missionaries on local culture and morality. Simpson also provides economic and trade analyses, linguistic comparisons, culinary critiques, and descriptions of local flora and fauna. [PRBM].
Download or read book Scharmann s Overland Journey to California written by Hermann B. Scharmann and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Scharmann left Germany as head of a company of gold-seekers bound for California in 1849. Scharmann's overland journey to California (1918) describes his family's journey from New York to their wagon train in Independence, Missouri, and the trip across the Plains via Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. When his wife and daughter die shortly after reaching California, Scharmann and two sons push ahead to the gold fields at Feather River and Middle Fork, and the American River and Negro Bar. He offers a brutal picture of the exploitation of emigrant parties and of the drudgery of prospecting and of towns like Marysville, Sacramento, and San Francisco, 1849-1851.
Download or read book Journal of an Overland Journey to Oregon Made in the Year 1849 written by William J. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Overland Journey from Utah to California written by Edward Leo Lyman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route, and of the people who developed and used it. Based on extensive research in primary sources - including many early travelers accounts - and on Lyman's own investigation of the route and its branches, the book discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail. Its horse thieves and traders, including Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson, along with government explorer John C. Fremont. Developing the old pack mule trail as a wagon road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, miners heading for the California gold fields first used the route extensively.
Download or read book The Asia Diaries written by Joe Simmons and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overland Journey written by HORACE. GREELEY and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Overland Journey from San Francisco to New York by Way of the Salt Lake City written by Sir Edmund Hope Verney (3d Bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Overland Journey Round the World written by Sir George Simpson and published by Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard. This book was released on 1847 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commentary, Simpson observations include much commentary on the degree of "civilization" among various peoples and the results thereof--often not positive, especially with regards to the impact of missionaries on local culture and morality. Simpson also provides economic and trade analyses, linguistic comparisons, culinary critiques, and descriptions of local flora and fauna. [PRBM].
Download or read book Journal of an Overland Journey to Oregon Made in the Year 1849 written by William J. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
