Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Adventurers & Explorers

Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai'i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal--and often amusing--anecdotes, Kirch relates his many adventures while doing fieldwork on remote islands.

At the age of thirteen, Kirch was accepted as a summer intern by the eccentric Bishop Museum zoologist Yoshio Kondo and was soon participating in...

It's just a trail. 2660 miles of dirt, sand, gravel, granite, lava and pine needles. It cares not who treads on its ever changing surface. Its very existence depends on the footsteps of those who navigate its pathway. Reaching the end of this 2 foot wide track a person finds themselves at the end of something that goes on in every aspect of their life. A deep inner emotion grips at your soul, one that can only be understood by those who have also walked along this seemingly never ending trail.

On Sunday afternoon of April 7th Quentin (Family Man) along with his dad, Donald...

This Time Tunnel Story is put to song, and there is a CD companion or downloadable music file that accompanies it. It is beautifully illustrated in Disney like fashion and premium color, by Sharon's sister Ollie. Adapted from The Time Tunnel book by the late Swami Kriyananda, it is a gem of the fruition of his metaphysical studies and deep insights. He artfully embroiders a fantasy story of he and his little brother finding a time tunnel and travelling through time, with the concepts of many deep truths that veritably reach out to touch the hems of the garments of ancient sages-- whose...

This book is an autobiographical spiritual adventure story; a coming of age of a little girl from the Alberta prairies desperately longing to be once more anchored in the divine, and finding the path to freedom through a beloved guru; Swami Kriyananda. She is initiated into the kriya yoga of Yogananda, handed down from Krishna through Masters that have come in the line of Jesus. The little stories of her life embroider this tapestry of unfolding help that will deliver her into the arms of her own higher self, and her inner light begins to shine. She finds the Saint who has been waiting in...

Her journeys traversed the intracoastal waters off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, going as far as the Bimini Islands. Her pleasure craft, The...

Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska is the story of one woman's adventures in the remote wilderness of the north. From canoe camping next to unnamed lakes, to kayaking in Alaska's pristine waters, she describes her many encounters with the bears, moose and other animals that make this wilderness their home. With her partner David she helped to build a cabin on a remote piece of property, off the grid and accessible only by boat. Illustrated with the photos she took along the way, her story is sometimes comic, and sometimes tragic, but throughout its pages she speaks with the voice of one who...