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What I Saw in California 3 reviews
Edwin Bryant
Narrative Press, 2001
Masterpiece
Edwin Bryant's work is a classic not only of overland travel in 1846 but also of life in early California during the same time period.
The Kentucky newspaperman's writing style approaches poetic composition. He was a keen observer of every minute detail on the trail and when in California:
Geography; Indians; weather; describing the many people along the route; river fordings; acting the part ...
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Head Hunters of the Amazon: My Adventures in the Jungle, 1894-19013 reviews
F. W. Up De Graff
Narrative Press, 2003
fascinating diary on amazon jungle life in the 1890's
So they finally reprinted this book! My copy is an antique that I found by pure chance at my local GoodWill store. I loved this book! It is the diary of a man who spent several years living in the amazon jungle in the late 1890's. His encounters with nature, exotic animals, natives, tropical diseases (and more) fascinated me. The most well-known part of the book is how he got to observe ...
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The Boy, Me, and the Cat2 reviews
Henry Plummer
The Narrative Press, 2003
Cats and more Cats
I bought my copy of this book in the early 70's. It is still on my book shelf along with the more important books in my life such as Bill Atkin's "Of Yachts and Men", Herreshoff's "The Compleat Cruiser" and Maurice Griffiths' "The Magic of the Sands". This is a book about a trip that a man took with his son. It is a report mostly from a thoughtful log and bears enough interest that there it sits ...
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California Coast Trails3 reviews
J. Smeaton Chase
Narrative Press, 2001
A Lyrical Visit to Rural California
In 1910 J. Smeaton Chase and a painter, Carl Eytel, decided to go by horseback down the coast from Los Angeles. They carried their supplies, rifles for hunting, and a boundless curiosity about the landscape that even then was beginning to change. Far from wilderness, the land had a rural agrarian character. But cars were already starting to appear on the roadways and Chase foresaw the coming ...
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Tenting on the Plains: With General Custer from the Potomac to the Western Frontier2 reviews
Elizabeth Custer
Narrative Press, 2003
A 50 Star Review
I can not recommend this book more, Tenting on the Plains by Elizabeth Bacon Custer.....and no before you wrinkle your nose that it is a camping book....think of it more as what Little House on the Prairie should have been if it was interesting....and what Tom Sawyer and Hunk Finn would have been if Mark Twain was a good writer.
This is a fabulous work, because it is first hand history of the ...
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Love for Sail2 reviews
Mark Hassall, Jim Brown
The Narrative Press, 2002
Love for Sail, by Mark Hassle
Unbelievable marvelous book about cruising & sailing. I read it years ago and forgot just how good it was.
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Commerce of the Prairies4 reviews
Josiah Gregg
Narrative Press, 2001
Primary Source, in depth, discussion of the southern plains
Shortly after Mexican Independence interest in establishing trade with Sante Fe, Mexico's most northerly province, became ever more popular. Josiah Gregg was preceded by Mountain Men who explored the area, but he was the first with sufficient education to describe the people, land features and Indians with whom traders would have to deal. His work constitues a PREFACE to other books dealing ...
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Journal of a Trapper: In the Rocky Mountains Between 1834 and 18434 reviews
Osborne Russell
The Narrative Press, 2001
A fascinating view of the trapper's life
This is the best description of the life of a trapper I have ever found. Most accounts deal more with the highlights of the Indian fights and other great challenges that these men faced. Russell deals with a number of these but also covers the day to day life of camping, riding, trapping, hunting food and cooking it as well as some of the day to day social interactions. Fortunately many of the ...
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Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire2 reviews
Taylor Baynard
Narrative Press, 2003
superb and engaging
I stumbled across this book by accident one day and it has turned out to be my find of 2001 -- one of the most enjoyable books I have read in ages. Taylor, a youthful New York journalist and poet, was sent out to California to file back dispatches on this wild, gold-filled, lush place in the seminal gold rush year of 1849, when California was a sprawling region, and not yet a state. And what a ...
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Narrative Magazine Fall Issue 20072 reviews
Narrative Press, 2007
Praise for Narrative
"It's great news for writers and readers alike that Narrative Magazine promotes fiction and nonfiction of far higher quality than many of the national publications available on newsstands. This is what the Internet was meant to supply. Congratulations to Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian on a magazine that continues to grow in readership and reputation."
--Ron Hansen
"Narrative is a vibrant ...
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Adventures on the Columbia River: Including the Narrative of the Residence of Six Years on the Western Side ...1 review
Ross Cox
Narrative Press, 2004
Another great old book
This is old, but good.
I lamented at almost every page that people have lost the skill to write with such language. It has the feel of objectivity and it's well footnoted with corrections. Ross Cox is a fascinating person with a fascinating story.
This book is filled with adventures complete with wild animals and violent natives. If you have illusions about the wilderness that preceded ...
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Digging for Lost African Gods: The Record of Five Years Archaeological Excavation in North Africa1 review
Byron Khun De Prorok
Narrative Press, 2004
An Archaeologists Adventures in North Africa
Byron Khun de Prorok, the daring archaeologist active from the 1920s to the 40s, began excavating Carthage and Utica in 1921. 'Digging for Lost African Gods' is the account of this expedition, as well as a lyrical treatise on archaeology, the passage of time, and connections between people from century to century.
'Digging for Lost African Gods' tells us more about he science of archaeology, ...
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The Adventures of Captain Bonneville: Digested from His Journals by Washington Irving1 review
Washington Irving, Benjamin Bonneville
The Narrative Press, 2001
Fur Trade Classic
While some historians portray Bonneville as an arrogant, contemptuous, bumbling buffoon of the fur trade era, others also denounce the manner in which Irving attempts to place Bonneville on a pedestal. There are certainly subjects open to controversy, such as Irving's treatment (through Bonneville?) of Joseph Walker's "non-authorized" expedition to California, or the building of Fort ...
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Desperate Voyage: A Novice Sails Alone from America to Australia1 review
John Caldwell
Narrative Press, 2001
desperate voyage
Desperate Voyage takes the reader on a wonderful journey of discovery. This true life adventure takes place at the close of World War II and details the trials and tribulations of the author in his attempt to return to his wife in Austrailia. When he finds there is no transportation available, John decides to sail a small yacht the 8000 miles to Austrailia from Panama. Never mind that he has ...
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Burro Bill and Me: Death Valley to Grand Canyon by Burro Via the Arizona Strip1 review
Edna Calkins Price
Narrative Press, 2004
The west in the mid 30's
Interesting book about a couple walking in the desert with burros in western U.S.. It tells about the problems they had an how they solved them with many different experiences. It might help if you have an interest in burros while reading this book.
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The Lake Regions of Central Africa: From Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika (Volume 1) (Volume 1)1 review
Richard Francis Burton
The Narrative Press, 2001
Well worth the effort
The book is a detailed chronological account of nearly three years of difficult travel between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika, circa the late 1850's. Nothing escapes Burton's observation. He writes of everything from the local hairstyles to the price of pombe (African beer). He gives detailed descriptions of the landscape, geography, flora, and fauna. He writes of Arabs and the Eastern slave trade. ...
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An American General1 review
David Sloan Stanley
The Narrative Press, 2003
Ameican military history in the 19th Century
This book is an interesting view of history told by a graduate of West Pont in 1852, who had a key role in the Civil War. He provides insights into the stategy and combat in the Western theater, and the relations of the army on the western frontier after the War. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Franklin, TN.
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First to the Parklands: Original Narrative from the History of Western Exploration1 review
Narrative Press, 2003
First rate adventures
A well-edited selection of the stories of exploration of America's western National Parks from diaries, memoirs, and contemporary writing (magazine and newsprint articles).
Focused specifically on the areas destined to become National parks, these stories give an outstanding insight into America's wilderness past. I was carried away by these original descriptions of the unique geology, ...
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In Quest of Lost Worlds1 review
Byron Khun de Prorok
The Narrative Press, 2003
For anyone who enjoys great true life adventures
In Quest Of Lost Worlds: Journey To Algeria, Ethiopia, Yucatan And Beyond is the rousing memoir and self-described journey of Count Byron de Prorok, an Anglo-Hungarian archaeologist and explorer who researched occult subjects and visited a wide variety of fascinating sites with metaphysical implications during the 1920s and 1930s. From his uncovering of the tomb of the Queen of the Tuaregs Tin ...
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The Emigrants' Guide: To Oregon and California in 18441 review
Lansford W. Hastings
The Narrative Press, 2001
My Amazon Book Order
The book was sent in excellent condition and I am satisfied with my book.
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