Grogan Daniel Livres

Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of history's most famous travellers and their finest adventures. Inside each of us lives an explorer who yearns to visit the great unknown. Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of history's most famous travelers and their finest adventures. These are the tales behind the history's bravest pioneers, bringing you from the ocean's black depths to the top of Mount Everest. Harriet Tubman ferries fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad--not once, not twice, but 19 times. Teddy Roosevelt risks life, limb, and sanity as he charts the Amazon's River of Doubt. Buoyed by the voice of God, Joan of Arc travels to Vaucouleurs to petition Charles for a chance to fight for France. Charles Darwin notices several different finch species while touring the Galápagos Islands, fundamentally changing how we understand life. Spanning from 500 BC to today, Origins of a Journey teaches us that there is always value in an adventure, no matter how small--or doomed--it may be.

Famous Last Lines features the final sentences from 300 works of literature, from Don Quixote to The Girl on the Train. The closing words of any text carry a lot of weight. Famous Last Lines unpacks more than 300 notable final lines, from classical epics to contemporary short stories. Spanning centuries of writing, each entry, whether for Don Quixote or The Girl on the Train, provides context for these notable last lines, making clear what makes them so memorable and lasting. Famous Last Lines provides readers with a comprehensive collection of brilliant conclusions.