When it comes to your next adventurous read, who better than adventurers to recommend their favorite books? Here are two adventure books well worth the read, and what a couple of adventurers had to say about them.
The Worst Journey In The World (1922) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Does the thought of three men hauling 300 kilos through the Polar wilderness in -70ºC sound like a good time to you? We didn’t think so. Yet the narrator, a young member of Captain Scott's expedition team, managed to describe the event with the dry wit that only the British could be known for.
Ben Saunders, polar explorer, had this to say: "It's an epic tale of suffering and derring-do," says Saunders. "The New York Review Of Books said it was, 'To travel, what War And Peace is to the novel – a masterpiece.' I'd go along with that!"
The Kon-Tiki Expedition (1950) by Thor Heyerdahl. In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and his companions sailed 4,300 miles from Peru towards Polynesia in an attempt to prove that the Pacific was settled from the West. And for authenticity’s sake, they did it on a primitive raft like the kind the aboriginals would have used.
Tom Avery, author of To The End Of The Earth, had this to say about it: "I read it as a boy, and recently re-read it. Six men crossing the Earth's largest ocean on a balsa raft? Surely the most inspiring adventure story ever told."
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