Operation Raleigh has more than 25,000 supporters and participants worldwide. This book is John Blasford-Snell's continuing account of the international expedition and relates his adventures as he takes more than 1000 young Venturers from Chile through the Pacific Islands to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Japan and finally to the massifs of Tibet and Pakistan. Each episode of the expedition offers challenge, excitement, danger and discovery, whether it is unearthing the 200-year-old remains of HMS Pandora or diving for turtles' eggs off the coast of Japan. John Blashford-Snell's initial account of the expedition was told in his book "Operation Raleigh: Start of an Adventure".

Operation Raleigh: Adventure challenge

Blashford-Snell, John

Travel

Collins

Language:Chinese.OPERATION RALEIGH - THE START OF AN ADVENTURE (map)

Operation Raleigh: The start of an adventure

Travel Writing

In 1984 Prince Charles launched Operation Raleigh, which offered young people the opportunity to travel and work all over the world and undergo extremes of climate and harsh terrain. Since then 4000 venturers have taken up the challenge, and this book captures the spirit of their adventures. They encounter electric eels and grizzly bears, join in some secret rites with the Sioux Indians, swim with dolphins and learn to endure hardship with humour. Including many action photographs, the authors describe the sense of achievement felt by the young explorers as they sail across oceans in square riggers, hack their way through the jungles of Panama, Indonesia and Guyana, and ski the ice fields of Alaska.

Operation Raleigh: Adventure Unlimited

Tweedy, Ann

Harpercollins

A chronicle of the second stage of the four-year expedition follows the young Venturers as they face new challenges in the Pacific

Operation Raleigh: Adventure Challenge

Operation Raleigh: The Start of an Adventure

1974, British hardcover edition, Hutchinson, U.K., 267 pages. Maps, b&w photos throughout, color frontis. The author has organized over 60 expeditions to all parts of the world.

Where the trails run out

Hutchinson

Signed by the author in an inscription to Colonel Richard Wigglesworth. First edition. Book is good+. Pages age-darkened. Jacket is acceptable with several tears, bends, especially along top edge.

In the steps of Stanley

In the Wake of Drake

Cable, Michael

Star Bks.

<p>The mythical land of Great Paititi, east of the Andes, attracted conquistadors, archaeologists, adventurers and even, more recently, Nazis fleeing justice. John Blashford-Snell has always felt the lure of lost cities and in particular of Paititi, the city the Spanish conquistadors called El Dorado. In May 2001, he set off through dense rainforest with a full team of jungle-bashers, archaeologists, soldiers and scientists to reach the area where the dangerously snake-infested ruins were believed to be. What they found was not a city but what seemed to be an ancient centre for ritual.;The success of two earlier expeditions, Kota Mama I and II, had shown that ancient peoples could have sailed boats made of reed from Lake Titicaca southwards and eastwards to the Atlantic. Now Blashford-Snell set off to prove that the ancient peoples of Paititi could have used the long succession of ever-widening rivers that end at the mouth of the Amazon as trade routes to the Old World. Kota Mama III, a reed trimaran, with three jaguar figureheads, faced a frightening 500 kilometres of rapids to prove the point.This account of a hair-raising journey through the little-known heart of South America is in the tradition of the best adventurous travel.</p>

East to the Amazon: In Search of Great Paititi and the Trade Routes of the Ancients

Snailham, Richard

John Murray Pubs Ltd

<p>An account of an adventure which provided evidence that South Americans could have had trading contacts with Africa 1000 BC, using reed boats to navigate their way across the Atlantic. This is a recreation of that epic journey, uncovering many archaeological sites along the way.</p>

Kota Mama

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Headline Book Pub Ltd

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