THE ship Tonquin, belonging to John Jacob Astor, left Boston about the year 1811, with settlers, for the purpose of forming an establishment on the Columbia River. On their passage out, they touched at the Sandwich Islands to fill up their water casks, and procure a supply of provisions. Captain Thorne encountered considerable difficulties from the disposition which his ship's company evinced to leave the vessel at these islands, and was even obliged to get the settlers to keep watch over ...

Embracing Art and Photography, the visions in this storybook are a basis to our cultural spirit. From the harsh realities of a skier’s plight, to warm boarding adventures across Western Canada and inside the hip French corner of Switzerland - we are searching for something very special. Throw about the urban dream for community balance parks, some common respect, and a healthy serve of adrenaline, and you’ll discover a connection to the new world. The essence of nomadic existence and timel...

A 160 page book of poetry and short stories relating mainly to snow life with some sk8, surf, bike and skydiving. Art and Photography express the visions of epic spirit. From the harsh realities of a skier's plight, to warm boarding adventures across Western Canada and inside the hip French corner of Switzerland - the contributors are searching for something very special. Throw about the urban dream for community balance parks, some common respect, and a healthy serve of adrenaline, and th...

Meet the godfather of freestyle. Eric Hymans was Australian skiing’s original wild man. Who won two Australian mogul championships after starting Falls Creek’s iconic Team Red with a bunch of talented athletes. His story from skibum to number one to recluse is both humorous and shocking. Soaked in emotion.Team Red was instrumental to the explosion of freestyle skiing during the 1980s. Establishing the Summit Masters they planted the seeds of freedom. This tale is set during the bir...

What is balance?Why do we need it?How do you achieve it?Medicine for the madness is a collection of stories to inspire: Balance; Healing; Adventure; Spirituality; Pathways. Shared from friends and global travels, these pages take the viewer on a journey toward realising dreams. Highlighting surf, snow, skate, and bike riding in the light of self-discovery. As well as collective sustainability to reach our greatest potential. A painstakingly crafted rendition of know...

The Carthaginian explorer Hanno left the Med to sail south, the mother of all storms has pushed him north. His fleet of war galleys, battered and exhausted, are pinned against a hostile shore. The shore is lined with hundreds of armed tribesmen. Only one man speaks both languages. Can Hanno make friends, allies, can he even get home? This is 470BC, this is England. Hanno doesn’t know that.

John R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.On March 22, 1803, while anchored in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Boston was attacked by a group of Mowachaht warriors. Twenty-five of her 27 crewmen were massacred, their heads "arranged in a line" for survivor John R. Je...

“The Northwest Passage Exploration Anthology”, features the first-hand personal accounts of explorers: Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, John Rae, John Franklin, Thomas Simpson, Peter Warren Dease, William Edward Parry and Richard Hakluyt. This book charts the full history of the exploration of the legendary “Northwest Passage” – the sea-lane around the frozen Northern shore of the North American Continent.   Discovering this passage became an obsession for generations of explor...

Journeys of Discovery is part of the Pocket History series - a conveniently portable, stylishly packaged and eminently collectible set of twelve books that each open a window onto a selection of remarkable stories, characters and themes from the past. What would it have been like to be Ferdinand Magellan discovering a hidden strait at the bottom of South Atlantic that opened into the broad expanse of the Pacific, or John Hanning Speke, finding the long sought source of the Nile?

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London.The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.This edition includes illustrations.Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham.The book narrates the story of eleven years of...

An unmarried by mathematically precise Englishman dismisses his valet for heating his shaving water two degrees cooler than usual. He hires a French valet to replace him and the two of them set off to travel around the world in eighty days - a supposedly possible feat, now that the Indian railways have been built. If they succeed they will win a fortune off the other members of the Reform Club.