Stark, Peter

A biography of George Washington, focusing on how the American frontier shaped his military career and his presidency.

Recounts the first attempt of John Jacob Astor and President Thomas Jefferson in 1810 to send advance parties both overland and by sea to settle the western Coast of North America, in what is now Oregon, and the ultimate failure of the expedition.

Presents short stories in which adventurers find themselves on the brink of death from hypothermia, drowning, mountain sickness, avalanche, scurvy, heatstroke, falling, predators, the bends, cerebral malaria, and dehydration.

Presents short stories in which adventurers find themselves on the brink of death from hypothermia, drowning, mountain sickness, avalanche, scurvy, heatstroke, falling, predators, the bends, cerebral malaria, and dehydration.