Simultaneous.

    A novel tells the story of a man who leads an ordinary, uneventful life, until overnight he becomes the trustee of his 10-year-old niece, and involved in the search for some missing money.

    And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Incredible Journey is one of the great children's stories of all time—and has been popular ever since its debut in 1961.

    Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, The White Nile remains a seminal work in tales of discovery and escapade, filled with incredible historical detail and compelling stories of heroism and drama.

    Following the 1943 sinking of the merchant ship S.S. Lulworth Hill in the south Atlantic by Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci., 14 men, including the author, gather on a small liferaft. The men attempt to reach the African coast, but intense sun, starvation, sharks, injuries and madness begin to take their toll. When British warship HMS Rapid reaches the raft nearly two months later, only two men, author Kenneth Cooke and crewmate Colin Armitage, remain alive. This heart-breaking story remains inspirational due to the author's faith, determination, and compassion for his fellow raftmates. Included are six pages of illustrations.

    In this, his first book, never before published in the U.S., the famous French sailor, Moitessier, describes his shipwreck on the Chagos atoll in the Indian Oceans, his building of Marie-Therese II, and his leisurely voyage to the West Indies, where he met disaster.

    

    

    He was born in 1880 near Edinburgh, and by the time he was six, he had lost both parents. When he was ten, he took a pair of muzzleloading dueling pistols, a watch, and a few pennies and set off for America to go "bison shooting"! This scheme failed spectacularly when the stationmaster grabbed him as he was about to board the train, but other adventures soon followed. Never interested in school, he was, however, consumed by the writings of Gordon Cummings and thoughts of hunting elephants. He was not quite a teenager when he enlisted on a sailing ship in hopes of reaching Africa . . . but landed up in Tasmania. By the time he was fourteen his exasperated family bundled him off to a boarding school in Germany in the hopes of getting some sort of education in him, but once there he built a rough sort of kayak and managed to get to the coast via the river system and eventually back home by taking a steamer and trains. Finally his siblings relented and let him go to Africa. This was obviously no ordinary boy! Not even seventeen years old, he arrived in Mombasa with little more than a .303 single-shot rifle. This initial foray proved unsuccessful and unprofitable, so he took a steamer back to England and arrived home penniless. Refitted and a bit wiser, he then sought his destiny in the Yukon, mining for gold and providing game for the camps in the Klondike. Again penniless after having been cheated by a partner, he enlisted in the Canadian army to fight in the Boer War, which would also provide a means of returning to Africa. Now finally all elements fell in place: more wisdom through maturity, some funds, the right rifles, and a great deal of determination saw him make his first safari for ivory. Like a tiger after its first kill, he developed a taste for elephant hunting, and he subsequently made what are generally considered the greatest ivory-hunting expeditions ever conducted by a single hunter. Bell began writing Bell of Africa, his third and last book, in the late 1940s but he died before it was completed. Col. Townsend Whelan took over the editing and finished the book, which contains some revised sections of Bell's earlier books but is, for the most part, all new material. In addition, this book contains Bell's own original drawings that depict scenes from his youth as well as his much-praised sketches of where to place brain, heart, and lung shots on elephants. These drawings were for a long time the only true anatomical studies of the position of an elephant's brain. Possibly the great secret to Bell's success-besides his extraordinary skill with a rifle-was his ability to think like an African. Bell was so good at understanding the mentality of the Africans he hunted with and encountered that he was able to get them to cooperate on his ivory-hunting expeditions to an astonishing degree. This clearly shines through in his books. There may be men who have led an adventurous a life, but not many of them were as daring and courageous as Walter Maitland Dalrymple Bell!

    Arctic Adventure, his best-known work, was long out of print, so much from it was incorporated in this book. Some of the horrors and hardships that are part of living in the Far North (such as the occasion on which Freuchen had to cut off his own frozen toes) are detailed to a grisly degree, but are handled with surprising nonchalance. The effect is to heighten the glamour and excitement of Freuchen's experiences by contrast. The natural harmony of Eskimo existence before the advent of white men is a prevalent theme, but the point is made without specific preachment. The supreme tact of Eskimo women, in keeping with their tradition of being powers-behind-thrones, is another thing that evoked undisguised admiration from Freuchen, whose first wife was an Eskimo by whom he had two children. Considerable skill has gone into making this informative and absorbing story come to life. Photographs not yet seen. Significant viewpoints on the lives of other explorers and traders, particularly Knud Rasmussen.

    Photographer Alexander Burdick drives his old mule-drawn army ambulance and a smooth-bore shotgun to the New Mexico Territory and into a range war.

    Thence, stretching out in a southwestwardly direction, they become substantially higher near Front Royal (at the beginning of the Shenandoah National Park) and further on in the Park, in the vicinity of Sperryville to the east and Luray to the west, they reach an apex in lofty Hawkskill Mountain and in the slightly lower though more imposing stony man mountain. In 1856, fifty years before the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park, a young man came to Stoney Man Mountain and in 1894 (on one of its shoulders, a plateau) he founded a summer resort . Soon known far and wide as "Skyland," this resort was and to a degree, still is the heart of Stoney Man Mountain as well as of the area surrounding it and until 1937, the young man (he never grew old) was the soul of Skyland.

    In the world of man, Ulysses stumbled and bumbled constantly, but in the world of the forest, where he surprisingly became winter caretaker and lone occupant of an isolated hunters’ lodge, he attained dignity, wisdom and assurance as he employed every faculty of his senses and opened his heart to its mysteries and its beauty—and its animal residents. For Ulysses was not alone for long. During that winter in this beloved woods he acquired his amazing wild zoo. This included a pugilistic crippled antelope buck, and injured bird, a lost beagle, a rabbit saved from a weasel and a baleful bobcat! he also acquired a dangerous human enemy. All were a challenge to his young manhood — met with simple courage and unique glory.The judges for the 1960 Boys’ Life—Dodd, Mead Writing Award have unanimously agreed that, this year, the prize should not be given to a writer new in the field. Rather, it was decided that the honor should be awarded posthumously to Jim Kjelgaard who has won the affection and esteem of many boys over many years for his fine and understanding books. Ulysses and his Woodland Zoo, and entirely new book, is a true example of his buoyant, sensitive writing.Illustrated by Kendall Rossi.

    I was fortunate in having Sergeant James C. Sheriff as a platoon sergeant soon after I began army life. He knew more about leading men than I did, and he was patient with me. There is a character in this story named after him. However, the real Sergeant Sheriff did not have the gambling instinct the “Sergeant Sheriff” in this book has.It is hard to imagine anyone writing a book entirely on his own. In order to write the adventures of Clint Lane, I traveled in Germany and France, and received help from many people there as well as in this country.Dort Darrah Reeder, my wife, devoted hours to this manuscript. Nardi Reeder Campion, my sister, a skilled writer, reviewed it and boosted it along. Lieutenant Colonel Dan Halpin devoted time, energy, and thought to the story.I am also indebted to: 1st Lt. James B. Allen, Jr.; 1st Lt. and Mrs. James L. Anderson; Capt. R. M. Berglund; Col. Morton Brooks; Joe Cahill; Lt. Col. Merle Carey; Sgt. Cicuzzo; Master Sgt. Paul Cirignano, USA—retired; Tim Cohane; 1st Sgt. George Danner; 1st Lt. Jim Ellis; Coach Dale Hall; Maj. Gen. Barksdale Hamlet; Mrs. Judy Hewgley; Coach Tom Harp; 2nd Lt. Dale Hruby; Master Sgt. Harry Lake; Capt. James Lay; 1st Lt. Robert Ley; Maj. Gen. Robert M. Littlejohn, USA—retired; 2nd Lt. Rod-eric (“Butch”) Ordway; Herr and Frau Walter Kissler; Sgt. Robert Jennings; Brig. Gen. Harold K. Johnson; Col. and Mrs. Doug Kendrick; Bill Merrill; Maj. G. R. Moe; Maj. Leslie McMorrow; Master Sgt. Bob Neel; Russ Reeder, III; Capt. Scott Riggs, Jr.; Maj. John Stannard; Maj. Gen. Harry Storke; Mrs. Virgil Shyrock; 1st Lt. Jeff Tuten; Maj. Gen. Tom Watlington; and S. B. Whipple.RED REEDERWest Point, New York

    The author's unrivaled experience in long-distance cruising has commanded an enormous following of dedicated readers and his sensible, practical approach to sound seamanship has great appeal to those wishing to learn and improve the art of safe cruising. "Cruising Under Sail combines Hiscock's classic books, "Cruising Under Sail and "Voyaging Under Sail. Topics include: stability; cockpit and steering arrangements; lighting, heating, and ventilation; choice of rig; the care and repair of sails; avoiding collisions; weather; tides; coastwise navigation; steering in heavy weather; self-steering; pilot charts; provisioning; celestial navigation.

    Too late, they find themselves part of the invasion fleet.

    He reviews the years of professional military training, from joining the Marines in 1940, through boot training, war in the Pacific, graduation to wings, training in jets. It was the culmination of this that made possible his survival of a fantastic 35 minute ordeal, when forced to abandon his Crusader jet at almost 50,000 feet.