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Intrepid Travellers

If you are an intrepid traveller then it will be the unreachable that draws you to new destinations and things to visit when you are travelling. Most people just plan their next holiday, but the diehard traveller will be looking to better their last trip and really make something remarkable.

Why not think about these?

Using all the pages in your passport: what a pride point to achieve! It might seem like a pain to a normal person to apply for new pages, but it’s such a badge of honour to have all the stamps of the countries that you have visited on display.

Climbing to the highest point of the countries you have visited: its amazing to see a country from its highest peak, so why not get to the top and be in the rare few that have seen the terrain from that angle.

Seeing one hundred countries: if you want membership in the traveller’s century club then collect passage into one hundred countries and be one of the elite few allowed to attend.

Acquiring rare passport stamps: there are some countries that are rare and unusual, and the acquisition of one if these stamps is like gold dust. Take Lichtenstein for example. How many people do you know with that stamp?

Seeing the world in eighty days: might sound easy, but the real trick is to do it without using aeroplanes. You might have to board a boat, or get on a bus with the locals, but it means that you will get out there and live like the locals.

Visiting all seven of the continents: this would be much easier if Antarctica was easier to get to, but it means taking on Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica and Australasia in the quest to be well travelled.

Getting your kicks on route 66: renting a car and driving the iconic route 66 is a Mecca for travellers, so get it done and get one of the most amazing trips for travellers.

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Explore Bolivia & Argentina $1860 Pick up a potion at the Witches’ Market of La Paz, Compare your footprint with that of a dinosaur at Cal Orck’o, Head underground at the Potosi mines, Discover the vibrant lakes of Salar de Uyuni, Quaff Malbec in a Mendoza vineyard

Mines $24.99 Mines – Photographic Print

Intrepid Travellers $24.99 Intrepid Travellers – Photographic Print

Demons of the Mines $39.99 Demons of the Mines – Giclee Print

Women in Mines $39.99 Women in Mines – Giclee Print

In the Mines of Pennsylvania $39.99 In the Mines of Pennsylvania – Giclee Print

Sweeping Mines $24.99 Sweeping Mines – Photographic Print

Intrepid I $49.99 Luann Ostergaard Intrepid I – Limited Edition

Intrepid II $49.99 Luann Ostergaard Intrepid II – Limited Edition

Samsung Intrepid SPH-i350 (Screen) $14.99 Samsung Intrepid SPH-i350 (Screen)

Observation Balloon Intrepid $59.99 Observation Balloon Intrepid – Wall Decal

King Solomon’s Mines $2.39 King Solomon’s Mines

Classic Thailand West Coast (nov – apr) $1895 Explore the heaving streets of Bangkok, See the stunning ruins of Sukhothai, Feast upon scrumptious Thai cuisine, Stay with Intrepid’s village friends in rural Thailand, Experience culture in chilled out Chiang Mai, Ride an elephant at the Elephant Conservation Centre near Lampang, Discover Buddhist relics in Bangkok city, Cruise to idyllic Thai islands, Chill out on perfect beaches, Experience the amazing Thai hospitality

Classic Thailand East Coast (may – oct) $1750 Explore the heaving streets of Bangkok, See the stunning ruins of Sukhothai, Feast upon scrumptious Thai cuisine, Stay with Intrepid’s village friends in rural Thailand, Experience culture in chilled out Chiang Mai, Ride an elephant at the Elephant Conservation Centre near Lampang, Discover Buddhist relics in Bangkok city, Cruise to idyllic Thai islands, Chill out on perfect beaches, Experience the amazing Thai hospitality

An Intrepid Hunter Takes $49.99 Gustave Dor̩ An Intrepid Hunter Takes РGiclee Print

Child Labour in Mines $39.99 Child Labour in Mines – Giclee Print

Gold Mines of California $49.99 Gold Mines of California – Giclee Print

French Laying Mines $24.99 French Laying Mines – Photographic Print

French Defensive Mines $24.99 French Defensive Mines – Photographic Print

Sundry Amusements in the Mines $49.99 Sundry Amusements in the Mines – Giclee Print

Samsung Intrepid SPH-i350 (Full Body) $24.99 Samsung Intrepid SPH-i350 (Full Body)

The Intrepid Tipping Into a Sharp Wave $69.99 George Silk The Intrepid Tipping Into a Sharp Wave – Photographic Print

Child Labour in the Mines, 1842 $49.99 Child Labour in the Mines, 1842 – Giclee Print

Students at Colorado School of Mines $79.99 Students at Colorado School of Mines – Premium Photographic Print

Copper Mines, Butte, Montana $24.99 Copper Mines, Butte, Montana – Premium Poster

King Solomon’s Mines, 1950 $39.99 King Solomon’s Mines, 1950 – Giclee Print

Basuto Native Working in the Mines $79.99 Basuto Native Working in the Mines – Premium Photographic Print

Colorado School of Mines $79.99 Colorado School of Mines – Premium Photographic Print

The Exterior of the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy $49.99 The Exterior of the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy – Giclee Print

Campus of the Colorado School of Mines $79.99 Campus of the Colorado School of Mines – Premium Photographic Print

Collins Classics King Solomons Mines $2.79 Collins Classics King Solomons Mines

Bangkok to Bali $3075 Spend a night in the wilds of Khao Sok, Bliss out on delightful Krabi beaches, Feast on eye-watering Penang curries, Go wild in the shops of Kuala Lumpur, Hit the historic streets of Melaka on a trishaw, Try a Singapore Sling in Singapore, Explore culture rich Yogyakarta, Discover an organic farm in Seloliman Nature Reserve, Be spoilt by staggering sunrise views atop Mt Bromo, Kick back on the coast of Bali, Uncover a leafy paradise in Ubud

Marrakech to Barcelona $2665 Get swept up in Marrakech’s Djemma el-Fna, Admire Morocco’s Moorish architecture in Casablanca, Discover the sights, smells and sounds of Fes, Visit the sacred pilgrimage village of Moulay Idriss, Get lost in Albayzin’s maze of pathways, Soak up modern-day Spain in marvellous Madrid, Be awed by Gaudi’s eccentricity in Barcelona

Alexander Hamilton: A Life $0.01 In the first full, one-volume biography of Alexander Hamilton in more than two decades, award-winning historian Willard Sterne Randall takes a fresh look at one of the most brilliant, conflicted, and elusive of our nation’s founders.Orphaned at thirteen and apprenticed in a counting house, the precocious Hamilton learned principles of business that helped him, as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury, to create the American banking system and invent the modern corporation. But first the staunch, intrepid Hamilton served in the American Revolution, primarily as aide-de-camp to General Washington, acting as Washington’s spymaster. Forging a successful legal career, Hamilton coauthored The Federalist Papers and plunged into politics. Irresistibly attractive to women, he was a man of many gifts, but he could be arrogant and was at times a poor judge of character.In this meticulously researched, illuminating, and lively account, Willard Sterne Randall mines the latest scholarship to provide a new perspective on Alexander Hamilton, his illegitimate birth, little-known military activities, political and diplomatic intrigues, and sometimes scandalous private life.From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis to his untimely death in a duel with his old enemy Aaron Burr in 1804, Alexander Hamilton, despite his short and tragic life, left a huge legacy.Author Biography: Willard Sterne Randall is the Visiting Professor of Humanities at Champlain College in Vermont and an expert on early U.S. history. He received the Sidney Hillman Prize and the National Magazine Award as an investigative reporter. His book, BenedictArnold: Patriot and Traitor was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son won the Frank Luther Mott Prize. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his family.

Alexander Hamilton: A Life $10.99 In the first full, one-volume biography of Alexander Hamilton in more than two decades, award-winning historian Willard Sterne Randall takes a fresh look at one of the most brilliant, conflicted, and elusive of our nation’s founders.Orphaned at thirteen and apprenticed in a counting house, the precocious Hamilton learned principles of business that helped him, as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury, to create the American banking system and invent the modern corporation. But first the staunch, intrepid Hamilton served in the American Revolution, primarily as aide-de-camp to General Washington, acting as Washington’s spymaster. Forging a successful legal career, Hamilton coauthored The Federalist Papers and plunged into politics. Irresistibly attractive to women, he was a man of many gifts, but he could be arrogant and was at times a poor judge of character.In this meticulously researched, illuminating, and lively account, Willard Sterne Randall mines the latest scholarship to provide a new perspective on Alexander Hamilton, his illegitimate birth, little-known military activities, political and diplomatic intrigues, and sometimes scandalous private life.From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis to his untimely death in a duel with his old enemy Aaron Burr in 1804, Alexander Hamilton, despite his short and tragic life, left a huge legacy.Author Biography: Willard Sterne Randall is the Visiting Professor of Humanities at Champlain College in Vermont and an expert on early U.S. history. He received the Sidney Hillman Prize and the National Magazine Award as an investigative reporter. His book, BenedictArnold: Patriot and Traitor was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son won the Frank Luther Mott Prize. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his family.

Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afghanistan $49.95 Arms Against Fury examines the dramatic struggle of the Afghan people through the lens of Magnum photographers, dating back to co-founder George Rodger’s documentation of the country’s role in World War II. Ever since, Magnum’s intrepid photographers have crisscrossed the country’s striking landscape from the Central Asian steppes to the parched southern desert by way of the Hindu Kush mountains surrounding Kabul and the adjacent Panjshir Valley. As early as the 1950s, Eve Arnold and Marc Riboud filed unprecedented stories from a legendary Shangri-La, showing a small kingdom struggling for statehood against the forces of underdevelopment and unfortunate geographic position during the Cold War. The ultimate overthrow of the monarchy and brutal liquidation of Afghanistan’s constitutional government in 1978 heralded the arrival of Soviet-style communism. Peasants in Nuristan rebelled immediately and initiated a jihad that was covered first by Raymond Depardon and then by Steve McCurry, and later by renowned photojournalist Abbas, who also focused on the progress of the mujahedin, who eventually faced a massive Red Army invasion and savage aerial bombardments. The victory against the Soviets also signaled the beginning of a civil war that began in 1992. Documented by Luc Delahaye, Christopher Steele-Perkins, Abbas, and Steve McCurry, Afghan militias destroyed large swathes of Kabul. The Taliban militia subdued warring factions in 1996 and proclaimed an Islamic emirate. Steele-Perkins was one of the few journalists to report from Afghanistan during this period of theocratic tyranny. In the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the hated Taliban were shaken from power by a loose alliance of mujahedin backed by American forces. Yet nothing seemed to remedy the miserable spectacle of a ruined country littered with ten million land mines and thousands of innocent victims of the hi-tech war on terror.

Backcountry Adventures Colorado $117.45 ALL NEW BOOK. This HARDCOVER addition to the award-winning Backcountry Adventures series includes meticulous details for more than 145 of Colorado’’s best scenic back roads and four-wheel drive trails. Intrepid adventurers will be guided to ghost towns such as Animas Forks, long forgotten mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the routes. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate current conditions of ghost towns, while historical photos from the 1800s allow readers to compare what they looked like in their heyday. Histories of the towns are included, as well as write-ups on plants and animals you are likely to see along the way. Driving directions include GPS coordinates and all trails are rated for difficulty, mileage, driving time, and more. Descriptions highlight ideal places to camp, hike, mountain bike, fish, and sightsee. Trail maps are topographic, created by Benchmark Maps.

Backcountry Adventures Colorado $70.24 This new addition to the awardwinning Backcountry Adventures series includes meticulous details for 143 of Colorado’s best scenic back roads and fourwheel drive trails. Intrepid adventurers will be guided to ghost towns such as Animas Forks, long forgotten mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the routes. Hundreds (924!) of color photographs illustrate current conditions of ghost towns, while historical photos from the 1800s allow readers to compare what they looked like in their heyday. Histories of the towns are included, as well as writeups on plants and animals you are likely to see along the way. Driving directions include GPS coordinates and all trails are rated for difficulty, mileage, driving time, and more. Descriptions highlight ideal places to camp, hike, mountain bike, fish, and sightsee. Trail maps are topographic, created by Benchmark Maps.

Backcountry Adventures Colorado $70.6 Used – ALL NEW BOOK. This HARDCOVER addition to the award-winning Backcountry Adventures series includes meticulous details for more than 145 of Colorado’s best scenic back roads and four-wheel drive trails. Intrepid adventurers will be guided to ghost towns such as Animas Forks, long forgotten mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the routes. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate current conditions of ghost towns, while historical photos from the 1800s allow readers to

Backcountry Adventures Colorado $29.69 Used – ALL NEW BOOK. This HARDCOVER addition to the award-winning Backcountry Adventures series includes meticulous details for more than 145 of Colorado’s best scenic back roads and four-wheel drive trails. Intrepid adventurers will be guided to ghost towns such as Animas Forks, long forgotten mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the routes. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate current conditions of ghost towns, while historical photos from the 1800s allow readers to

Backcountry Adventures Colorado $40.46 Used – ALL NEW BOOK. This HARDCOVER addition to the award-winning Backcountry Adventures series includes meticulous details for more than 145 of Colorado’s best scenic back roads and four-wheel drive trails. Intrepid adventurers will be guided to ghost towns such as Animas Forks, long forgotten mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the routes. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate current conditions of ghost towns, while historical photos from the 1800s allow readers to

Backcountry Adventures Colorado $104.95 Used – ALL NEW BOOK. This HARDCOVER addition to the award-winning Backcountry Adventures series includes meticulous details for more than 145 of Colorado’s best scenic back roads and four-wheel drive trails. Intrepid adventurers will be guided to ghost towns such as Animas Forks, long forgotten mines and mill workings, old railroads and stage lines along the routes. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate current conditions of ghost towns, while historical photos from the 1800s allow readers to

Buried Treasure: Travels Through the Jewel Box $11.88 Used – Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. Peridot falls to earth from space.You can grow opals in your back garden.One gem links Queen Victoria and a transvestite skeleton.Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet.A man has turned into a diamond.From the bestselling author of COLOUR – an intrepid journey to uncover the secret histories of precious stones.Victoria’s search takes her to Egypt to find the lost emerald mines of Cleopatra, to the Australian opal fields with their underground towns,

Buried Treasure: Travels Through the Jewel Box $1.19 Used – Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. Peridot falls to earth from space.You can grow opals in your back garden.One gem links Queen Victoria and a transvestite skeleton.Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet.A man has turned into a diamond.From the bestselling author of COLOUR – an intrepid journey to uncover the secret histories of precious stones.Victoria’s search takes her to Egypt to find the lost emerald mines of Cleopatra, to the Australian opal fields with their underground towns,

Buried Treasure: Travels Through the Jewel Box $150.67 New – Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. Peridot falls to earth from space.You can grow opals in your back garden.One gem links Queen Victoria and a transvestite skeleton.Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet.A man has turned into a diamond.From the bestselling author of COLOUR – an intrepid journey to uncover the secret histories of precious stones.Victoria’s search takes her to Egypt to find the lost emerald mines of Cleopatra, to the Australian opal fields with their underground towns, t

Buried Treasure: Travels Through the Jewel Box $99.13 New – Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. Peridot falls to earth from space.You can grow opals in your back garden.One gem links Queen Victoria and a transvestite skeleton.Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet.A man has turned into a diamond.From the bestselling author of COLOUR – an intrepid journey to uncover the secret histories of precious stones.Victoria’s search takes her to Egypt to find the lost emerald mines of Cleopatra, to the Australian opal fields with their underground towns, t

Color: A Natural History of the Palette $4.4 In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself.How did the most precious color blue travel all the way from remote lapis mines in Afghanistan to Michelangelo’s brush? What is the connection between brown paint and ancient Egyptian mummies? Why did Robin Hood wear Lincoln green? In Color, Finlay explores the physical materials that color our world, such as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time.Roman emperors used to wear togas dyed with a purple color that was made from an odorous Lebanese shellfish–which probably meant their scent preceded them. In the eighteenth century, black dye was called logwood and grew along the Spanish Main. Some of the first indigo plantations were started in America, amazingly enough, by a seventeen-year-old girl named Eliza. And the popular van Gogh painting White Roses at Washington’s National Gallery had to be renamed after a researcher discovered that the flowers were originally done in a pink paint that had faded nearly a century ago. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotes–painted all the more dazzling by Finlay’s engaging style.Embark upon a thrilling adventure with this intrepid journalist as she travels on a donkey along ancient silk trade routes; with the Phoenicians sailing the Mediterranean in search of a special purple shell that garners wealth, sustenance, and prestige; withmodern Chilean farmers breeding and bleeding insects for their viscous red blood. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright.

Color: A Natural History of the Palette $13.99 In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself.How did the most precious color blue travel all the way from remote lapis mines in Afghanistan to Michelangelo’s brush? What is the connection between brown paint and ancient Egyptian mummies? Why did Robin Hood wear Lincoln green? In Color, Finlay explores the physical materials that color our world, such as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time.Roman emperors used to wear togas dyed with a purple color that was made from an odorous Lebanese shellfish–which probably meant their scent preceded them. In the eighteenth century, black dye was called logwood and grew along the Spanish Main. Some of the first indigo plantations were started in America, amazingly enough, by a seventeen-year-old girl named Eliza. And the popular van Gogh painting White Roses at Washington’s National Gallery had to be renamed after a researcher discovered that the flowers were originally done in a pink paint that had faded nearly a century ago. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotes–painted all the more dazzling by Finlay’s engaging style.Embark upon a thrilling adventure with this intrepid journalist as she travels on a donkey along ancient silk trade routes; with the Phoenicians sailing the Mediterranean in search of a special purple shell that garners wealth, sustenance, and prestige; withmodern Chilean farmers breeding and bleeding insects for their viscous red blood. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright.

Hunter Quatermain’s Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quartermain $0.99 Used – Over a century after the debut of the intrepid hunter explorer Allan Quatermain in “King Solomon’s Mines,” he remains one of the great heroes of literature whose adventures have been adapted for cinema and television. This new anthology brings to light a novelette and four short stories which have never been collected in one volume. Introducing the tales with a detailed resume of the author’s life and career, this compendium provides information about the inspiration and creation of Allan

Hunter Quatermain’s Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quartermain $0.62 Used – Over a century after the debut of the intrepid hunter explorer Allan Quatermain in “King Solomon’s Mines,” he remains one of the great heroes of literature whose adventures have been adapted for cinema and television. This new anthology brings to light a novelette and four short stories which have never been collected in one volume. Introducing the tales with a detailed resume of the author’s life and career, this compendium provides information about the inspiration and creation of Allan

Hunter Quatermain’s Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quartermain $3.82 New – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the new film featuring Sean Connery as H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain (along with Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and other fictional heroes of the time) is creating renewed interest in this intrepid hunter explorer, over a century after his debut in King Solomon’s Mines (1885). The most famous of Haggard’s novels about him–including She, Allan Quatermain, and Allan and the Ice Gods–have been regularly reprinted for new generations of readers.

Hunter Quatermain’s Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quartermain $3.22 New – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the new film featuring Sean Connery as H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain (along with Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and other fictional heroes of the time) is creating renewed interest in this intrepid hunter explorer, over a century after his debut in King Solomon’s Mines (1885). The most famous of Haggard’s novels about him–including She, Allan Quatermain, and Allan and the Ice Gods–have been regularly reprinted for new generations of readers.

Intrepid Potash $64.8 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Intrepid Potash, Inc, based in Denver, Colorado, is the largest producer of potassium chloride, also known as muriate of potash, in the United States. It owns three mines, all in the Western U.S., near the cities of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Moab, Utah, and Wendover, Utah. There are 3 sites approximately 30 miles (48 km) East of Carlsbad, NM. The East facility, produ

Intrepid Potash $36.67 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Intrepid Potash, Inc, based in Denver, Colorado, is the largest producer of potassium chloride, also known as muriate of potash, in the United States. It owns three mines, all in the Western U.S., near the cities of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Moab, Utah, and Wendover, Utah. There are 3 sites approximately 30 miles (48 km) East of Carlsbad, NM. The East facility, produ

Intrepid Potash $64.8 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Intrepid Potash, Inc, based in Denver, Colorado, is the largest producer of potassium chloride, also known as muriate of potash, in the United States. It owns three mines, all in the Western U.S., near the cities of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Moab, Utah, and Wendover, Utah. There are 3 sites approximately 30 miles (48 km) East of Carlsbad, NM. The East facility, produc

Intrepid Potash $36.67 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Intrepid Potash, Inc, based in Denver, Colorado, is the largest producer of potassium chloride, also known as muriate of potash, in the United States. It owns three mines, all in the Western U.S., near the cities of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Moab, Utah, and Wendover, Utah. There are 3 sites approximately 30 miles (48 km) East of Carlsbad, NM. The East facility, produc

Paulsens Gold Mine $48 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Paulsens Gold Mine is a gold mine located 105 km south of Pannawonica, Western Australia, within the Pastoral lease of the Mount Stuart Station. It is fully owned by Northern Star Resources, having purchased the mine from Intrepid Mines Limited in July 2010.A feasibility study was completed out by Taipan Resources NL in 1999, but a review contiuned until 2001

Paulsens Gold Mine $27.01 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Paulsens Gold Mine is a gold mine located 105 km south of Pannawonica, Western Australia, within the Pastoral lease of the Mount Stuart Station. It is fully owned by Northern Star Resources, having purchased the mine from Intrepid Mines Limited in July 2010.A feasibility study was completed out by Taipan Resources NL in 1999, but a review contiuned until 2001

Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America [ By: Alexander Von Humboldt ] $2.99 The increasing interest attached to all that part of the American Continent situated within and near the tropics, has suggested the publication of the present edition of Humboldt’s celebrated work, as a portion of the SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY.Prior to the travels of Humboldt and Bonpland, the countries described in the following narrative were but imperfectly known to Europeans. For our partial acquaintance with them we were chiefly indebted to the early navigators, and to some of the followers of the Spanish Conquistadores. The intrepid men whose courage and enterprise prompted them to explore unknown seas for the discovery of a New World, have left behind them narratives of their adventures, and descriptions of the strange lands and people they visited, which must ever be perused with curiosity and interest; and some of the followers of Pizarro and Cortez, as well as many learned Spaniards who proceeded to South America soon after the conquest, were the authors of historical and other works of high value. But these writings of a past age, however curious and interesting, are deficient in that spirit of scientific investigation which enhances the importance and utility of accounts of travels in distant regions. In more recent times, the researches of La Condamine tended in a most important degree to promote geographical knowledge; and he, as well as other eminent botanists who visited the coasts of South America, and even ascended the Andes, contributed by their discoveries and collections to augment the vegetable riches of the Old World. But, in their time, geology as a science had little or no existence. Of the structure of the giant mountains of our globe scarcely anything was understood; whilst nothing was known beneath the earth in the New World, except what related to her mines of gold and silver.

The Perpetual Pursuit: One Man’s Odyssey on the Gold Trail $14.36 Used – Following in the footsteps of this earlier intrepid disciple, Reverend William Mosher crossed the American continent three times in the last half of the nineteenth century as he pursued his unusual calling as a missionary evangelist to those struggling men on the gold trail. These were the years of the Gold Rush, and Mosher ministered to a motley collection of men drawn to that unforgiving lifestyle in forty-seven frontier towns and at thirty different gold mines in California. Despite a

The Perpetual Pursuit: One Man’s Odyssey on the Gold Trail $15.69 New – Following in the footsteps of this earlier intrepid disciple, Reverend William Mosher crossed the American continent three times in the last half of the nineteenth century as he pursued his unusual calling as a missionary evangelist to those struggling men on the gold trail. These were the years of the Gold Rush, and Mosher ministered to a motley collection of men drawn to that unforgiving lifestyle in forty-seven frontier towns and at thirty different gold mines in California. Despite a l

The Perpetual Pursuit: One Man’s Odyssey on the Gold Trail $14.44 New – Following in the footsteps of this earlier intrepid disciple, Reverend William Mosher crossed the American continent three times in the last half of the nineteenth century as he pursued his unusual calling as a missionary evangelist to those struggling men on the gold trail. These were the years of the Gold Rush, and Mosher ministered to a motley collection of men drawn to that unforgiving lifestyle in forty-seven frontier towns and at thirty different gold mines in California. Despite a l

The Perpetual Pursuit: One Man’s Odyssey on the Gold Trail $15.57 Used – Following in the footsteps of this earlier intrepid disciple, Reverend William Mosher crossed the American continent three times in the last half of the nineteenth century as he pursued his unusual calling as a missionary evangelist to those struggling men on the gold trail. These were the years of the Gold Rush, and Mosher ministered to a motley collection of men drawn to that unforgiving lifestyle in forty-seven frontier towns and at thirty different gold mines in California. Despite a