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Groups and evaluates the 12 "Adventures" in terms of social order, both in Doyle's time and in our own.

In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II. Vladimir Lenin's Russian Revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a world-wide revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes---starting with the British Empire.

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton announced a new adventure---an ambitious overland trek from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans via the South Pole. The trip became an incredible account of decisive leadership in the face of unbelievable adversity. Shackleton's original words are illustrated with a wide selection of photographs taken by Frank Hurley, who acceompanied Shackleton, and paintings by another expedition member, George Marston.

Ice floes breaking apart, frostbite, waves as tall as the tower of London: Ernest Shackleton and his men faced these dangers and more on their Antarctic expedition.

In October 1915, the ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice, and the crew became castaways in one of the harshest regions of the world.

Relates the true story behind the creation of the fake photographs of fairies created by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths. Describes how these girls created the images, why they caused so many to believe they were genuine, and how Arthur Conan Doyle reacted when he saw them for the first time.

Previously published as: Two generations. 1984. A dual autobiography describing three decades of high-altitude climbing by father and son.

Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.

Explores the work of physicist Isaac Newton who found that gravity affects the movements of Earth and the other planets in space.

Describes how Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the top of the world by climbing Mount Everest.