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For all you adventure junkies, thanks to somebody in the Reading On The Road forum, I found the 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time at National Geographic.

Donovan

I like The man Who Would Be King

BIG-TARGET: Do not think you are,know you are!!"-Morpheus(The Matrix)

I haven't read the book, but I sort of want to see the movie, although I know it's not as good.

I think it has to be Lord of the Rings, which I read sevral times before the films came out. Seems appropriate (to me) that as the books are about a quest my travel is also a quest to find out more about places, cultures and....me.

Doug
Nederlands

I still don't know how these two books were left off that list, but I highly recommend them both......

The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer - (This guy also wrote Seven Years in Tibet).... Deals with the first successful ascent of the Eiger. Heinrich was a young guy then, climbing at the back of a foursome, carried the most weight while retrieving the group's placed gear, and he had no crampons.... Unbelievable!

The Sagas of Icelanders - Some of the greatest exploration stories ever written. Enough said.