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Tag Archives: American Adventure Library
Our confident, high stock market reminds me of another high stock market early in 1929. That was when one of my environmental heros, Gifford Pinchot, buoyed with financial confidence a rising stock market gives, planned the adventure of a lifetime. Financial security and the end of his Governorship of Pennsylvania presented Pinchot with a Continue Reading »
January 18, 2018, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1929, American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, Black Thursday, Black Tuesday, Charles Darwin, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, Federal Reserve Bank, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos turtles, Giff Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot National Forrest, Governor of Pennsylvania, Grand Canyon, Grand Cayman, Howard Cleaves, Isla de Providecia, Isle de Sab Andre, Listen 2 Read. Audiobook, Listen to Read, Marquesas, New York Stock Market, Pacifc, Panama Canal, sailing ship, South Seas, Stiff Stahlnecker, Stock Market Crash, Tahiti, Theodore Roosevelt, Tuamotu Archipelago, “Mary Pinchot”, “To The South Seas”
There is a secret in this picture I took last year outside the Summer Palace, Beijing, China. Inside that building, all the doors and windows are blocked by an inside wall so the occupant, the Emperor of China, could not escape. In the year 1898, the Emperor was a prisoner in his own house. Continue Reading »
February 22, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
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If you or I were plantation slaves in Cuba in 1859, our value would have been set by law at $1,000 a person, which is equivalent to $28,316.68 in today’s US currency. This was a considerable investment by the plantation owner. A large plantation might have around 200 slaves, with a human value in Continue Reading »
December 8, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: abolitionist, American Adventure Library, American Civil War, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Barnes & Noble Nook, Castro, Cuba, Downpour.com Tune-in.com, Fugitive Slave Act, I-Tunes.com, Listen to Read, Master, Richard Henry Dana, Scribed.com, slave value, slavery, Spain, Spanish American War. Audible.com, Spanish Cuba, Sugar, Sugar Plantations, United States Congress, “To Cuba and Back”, “Two Years Before the Mast”
On March 22, 1927, Charles Lindberg became the first man to fly non-stop across the Atlantic from the United States to Europe. He was an instant national hero. While there were many pioneering woman pilots at the time, most people seemed to believe that aviation was a man’s profession. Amy Phipps Guest disagreed. Continue Reading »
January 6, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
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Ron Howard has just directed a new major motion picture based on the book ” In The Heart of The Sea,” by Nathaniel Philbrick. It is a retelling of the famous sea tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, in 1820, when a giant 80-foot whale became angry at the whaleship and attacked it, bashing in the Continue Reading »
December 2, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
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The brutal murder of the earth’s whale population for many years has had animal rights activists up in arms. Today, most countries have agreed to stop the atrocious killing. Japan, Norway and Iceland are the only three countries which sanction whale hunting. According to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, these three countries kill 2000 whales Continue Reading »
July 15, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
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In the 1800s, American whaling was a brutal, murderous undertaking. It was carried out by tough crewmen, on tall ships, based in Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, who were not afraid of huge whales. They were about to learn a frightening lesson. After the American Revolutionary War, whalers had decimated the whale population in Continue Reading »
December 12, 2014, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Acusnet, American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, audiobook, cannibalism, Captain Ahab, Essex, First Mate, First Mate of the Essex, Herman Melville, kerosene, leviathans of the deep, Listen2Read, Nantucket, New Bedford, Owen Chase, tall ships, whale ship, whaleboat, Whales, Whaling, “Moby Dick”, “Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex”
James Norman Hall, a very adventurous author, passed away 63 years ago this month. Hall, with his writing partner Charles Nordoff, wrote a number of well-received books. The most well known today is “Mutiny on the Bounty”, twice made into successful films. Who can forget Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh? Other works Continue Reading »
July 10, 2014, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, Andre Devin, Andre Stojka, audiobooks, bi-planes, Charles Laughton, Charles Nordoff, James Norman Hall, Lafayette Escadrille, Listen2Read, ListenToRead, Lord Herbert Kitchener, Secretary of State for War. Atlantic Monthly, Western Front, World War 1, ‘Mena Against the Sea”, “High Adventure”, “High Barbaree”, “Kitchener’s Mod”, “Mutiny On The Bounty”, “The Hurricane”
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