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Tag Archives: American Adventure Library
Now is not the time to explore Death Valley landscape. On Sunday August 16, 2020 Death Valley registered a temperature of 130 degrees, Fahrenheit making it the hottest place on earth. But it’s been hotter. In 1913 Death Valley registered a temperature of 134 degrees. William Lewis Manly At times like these, I Continue Reading »
August 29, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: "Death Valley in '49", American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, audiobook, August 16 2020, Darien Gap, Death Valley, hottest place on earth, Listen2Read, n”Death Valley in ‘49”, Wagon Trains, William Lewis Manly
The second most famous whale in the world had no name. We don’t know when it was born or when it died. We just know what it did. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean 2000 miles west of South America, this sperm whale bull, around 85 feet long, attacked a Continue Reading »
July 16, 2020, by Listen2Read Audiobook Publishers | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, audiobooks, Essex, Herman Melville, Listen2Read, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, November 20 1820, Owen Chase, whale, whale boat, whaleship Essex, William Henry Chase, “Moby Dick”
Should the United State of America attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain and make Cuba another southern Slave State? The year was 1834 and this shocking question was the subject of a secret meeting in an obscure Belgian town. The American Southern States were the northern tip of the wide practice of slavery, which stretched Continue Reading »
June 26, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1834, American Adventure Library, American southern states, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Cuba, John Slidell, Kansas, Listen2Read, Louisiana, Missouri Compromise, Northern States, Ostend Belgium, Ostend Manifesto, Pierre Soule, Richard Henry Dana, slave state, slavery, Spain, sugar plantation, United States, William L. Marcy, “To Cuba and Back – A Vacation Voyage”, “Two Years Before the Mast”
Before the invention of the Internet, “Yahoo” was the word used to describe a not very bright, brutish male totally without class. Imagine a group of these “yahoos” on horseback, stumbling into the unexplored wilderness, camping at night, anxious to kill buffalo, hoping to marry an Indian Princess, and you will understand the undisciplined group Continue Reading »
May 13, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, Applebooks.com, Audible.com, audiobooks, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Googlebooks.com, Headless Horseman, Hudson River, Internet, Listen 2 Read, Sleepy Hollow, St. Louis, Sunnyside, Tarrytown NY, Upstate New York, Washington Irving, Yahoo, “A Tour On The Praries”
During the pandemic of World War 1 in 1918, the last place you would want to be was in Germany, in a German Prison Camp behind German lines, where the flu pandemic broke out. Yet, that was exactly where James Norman Hall was. James Norman Hall is the author of my Listen2Read Audiobook “High Continue Reading »
April 6, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1918, American Adventure Library, Andre Devin, Andre Stojka, Applebooks.com, Armistice, Audible.com, Audibooks.com, audiobook, Barnes and Noble.com, CDC, Coronavirus, flu, German Prison Camp, Googlebooks.com, Googlebooks.com Scribed.com, Hoopla, I-Tunes.com, James Norman Hall, Lafayette Flying Corp. US Air Force, Listen2Read, Nieuport Type 128 bi- plane, Overdrive, pandemic, Prisoner of War, Scribed.com, Tunein.com, World War 1, Youtube, “High Adventure”
Before 1908, other than Santa Claus, no human being had reached the North Pole, although many had tried and failed. Some had unfortunately died for their efforts. In the year 1908, two serious contenders were preparing for victory over nature. One was a respected medical Doctor and explorer with very little financial support and no friends Continue Reading »
December 15, 2018, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1907 Christmas, 1908, Admiral Robert E. Peary, Amazon.com, American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, AppleBooks, Audible.com, audiobook, Barnes and Noble, Belgica, Christmas, Discovery of North Pole, Eskimo, Explorers, GooglePlay.com, Greenland, I-Tunes.com, Inuit, Listen to Read, National Geographic Society, New York Times, North Pole, Santa Claus, Scribed.com, Tune-in.com, USS Theodore Roosevelt, “My Attainment of the Pole”
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
Tags: 1908, American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, arsenic, Audible.com, audiobook, Beijing, China, concubine, Emperor of China, footbinding, Grand Dowager Cizi, Guangxu Emperor, How To Murder a Chinese Emperor, Indiana Jones, Japan, Listen to Read, modern China, Natural Science Museum, New York, November 15, Pu Yi, Qing Dynasty, Roy Chapman Andrews, Steven Spielberg, Summer Palace, The Last Emperor, Yen Ping Rebellion, yogurt, Yvette Borup Andrews, Zaitian, “Camps and Trails in Old China
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