Biographies of Extraordinary Accomplishments

Zero Days is a well-told tale of their epic adventure, which required love, perseverance, and the careful rationing of toilet paper. The trio weathered the heat of the Mojave, the jagged peaks of the Sierra, the rain of Oregon, and the final cold stretch through the Northern Cascades. They...

“Captain” Ashton sails to numerous destinations in his quest to circumnavigate the globe, including the Panama Canal, the Galapagos Islands, the Fiji Islands, Africa, and Australia.

Don Braun joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 and flew the North West Staging Route from Edmonton to Alaska. His first bush flying was in an RCAF Norseman during the war years, and he went on to become one of the best known and most respected Canadian Arctic bush pilots of his time. He...

Hill and traveling companion Clifford Paterson encounter some bumps in the road. These include a fairly serious crash along a remote stretch of road near Cali, Colombia; endless red tape at a half-dozen Latin-American border crossings; and a ban on beer throughout Central America during Easter...

A distinctive brand of travel journalism that manages to combine side-splitting hilarity with acuity of observation and a real insight into what makes cultures tick. A joyful and enlightening read.

A raging good read. The Edge of Never takes the reader beyond mountains, beyond snow and ice and danger, and into the heart of family.

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She takes you "with her and her precious dogs" on this adventure with details about the event and how she feels,copes and thrives throughout the 1984 Iditarod.
The best part? She won as a team (with her dogs) and as a person of strength with the knowledge that she would also be a role model from...

What make this story even more extraordinary they were retirement bound and had collectively picked up the troublesome add-ons of injured backs and knees, high blood pressure and gout, and were overweight and under-exercised to boot!

Paul Wittreich bought a bicycle at the age of 58 after hiking the whole Appalachian Trail and running 13 marathons. This propelled him into a new adventure-biking across the USA, 4300 miles, coast to coast, and pedaling the length of Trans-Canada highway, 4,400 miles, again ocean to ocean.
Paul...

Most people bring their inner child on an epic adventure. Joe "Metal Cowboy" Kurmaskie actually took his two kids along. For a 4,000-mile bicycle ride across America, Joe's seven-year-old son, Quinn, rides a tagalong bike attached to his dad's; and behind that is five-year-old Enzo in a bike...