Friday five

[glacier_kitty]

1. If a really, really good photographer — the kind who always makes you look good and still look like you — were to take your photo right now, what would be a good title for it? Uhh..Relaxing on a Friday Night?? Haha
2. If that photo were so good it belonged on the cover of a magazine, what would be a good choice, based on where you are and what you’re doing? Home and Garden??
3. If you took an interesting or aesthetically pleasing photo of something in your view right now, what might it be, and what would its title be? Hmm..maybe fake flowers or one of the cats..
4. Among people you know, who seems to have a knack for taking great shots of people? Susan
5. Are you usually happier with candid photos of you, or photos you’ve posed for? Depends..both can be good

Yesterday I was reading about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (author of The Little Prince) and read that he was a pilot, which I didn't know. What book do I see at work today? A book of his flying adventures. Weird coincidence is weird. :P On the cover it said it was in the top ten adventure stories rated by National Geographic..and because I love lists, I'm going to put the whole list here and bold the ones I've read :P


1. The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (AW YEAAAAH CHERRY'S BOOK IS # 1!!! I love this list already :P)
2. Journals by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
3. Wind, Sand & Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4. Exploration of the Colorado River by John Wesley Powell (I have this one, but haven't read it yet. I learned about him the last time I was at the Grand Canyon..it sounded fascinating)
5. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
6. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog (classic mountaineering book! Poor guy lost all his fingers :()
7. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
8. West With the Night by Beryl Markham
9. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (crazy! 1996 was not a good year on Everest..)
10. Travels by Marco Polo
11. Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen (yay Nansen! Great book!)
12. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
13. Roughing It by Mark Twain
14. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
15. South by Ernest Shackleton (always amazing reading about him..)
16. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
17. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
18. Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
19. The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh
20. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (finally found a copy, still need to read it though)
21. Journals by James Cook (I have a couple books from his journals that I need to read, especially since he went to Alaska and near the Antarctic)
22. Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson (Mawson was one of the first Antarctic explorers I read about..amazing he lived!)
23. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
24. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
25. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park
26. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
27. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
28. The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative by David Roberts (great book!! Especially since I see Mt. Deborah a lot here lol)
29. First Footsteps in East Africa by Richard Burton
30. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
31. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
32. Through the Dark Continent by Henry M. Stanley
33. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (that sounds interesting..)
34. In the Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov (crazy survival story is crazy)
35. Endurance by F.A. Worsley (another one I have but need to read lol)
36. Scrambles Amongst the Alps by Edward Whymper (I have a super awesome vintage copy of this book. He was the first to climb the Matterhorn, though four of his companions died when the rope broke)
37. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
38. Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals by Robert Falcon Scott (Scott heck yeaaah :D)
39. Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein (must not have been too exciting, I only rated it 3 stars on Goodreads :P)
40. Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
41. Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rébuffat (loved this one! He was a great writer)
42. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
43. My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin ("In December 1899, the great Swedish explorer of Central Asia sets out with four men and limited supplies to cross 180 miles of enormous sand dunes. Temperatures drop far below zero. A camel dies. The men despair. The ink freezes in Hedin's pen. You hold your breath. Hedin keeps going." Ooo, that sounds like a great read!)
44. In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon
45. The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher
46. K2: The Savage Mountain by Charles Houston and Robert Bates (crazy..from what I've read, K2 is more dangerous than Everest!)
47. Gipsy Moth Circles the World by Francis Chichester
48. Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
49. Alone by Richard Byrd (poor guy got CO2 poisoning and was sick for months!)
50. Stranger in the Forest by Eric Hansen
51. Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty
52. The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton
53. The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
54. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada by Clarence King
55. My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
56. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
57. Running the Amazon by Joe Kane
58. Alive by Piers Paul Read (I read Miracle in the Andes, which was crazy D:)
59. Principall Navigations by Richard Hakluyt
60. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens
61. Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
62. Life in the Far West by George Frederick Ruxton
63. My Life as an Explorer by Roald Amundsen (ooo, I don't have this one yet! *adds to list*)
64. News from Tartary by Peter Fleming
65. Annapurna: A Woman's Place by Arlene Blum
66. Mutiny on the Bounty by William Bligh
67. Adrift by Steven Callahan (I saw his story on I Shouldn't Be Alive..amazing)
68. Castaways by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
69. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (one of my favorite books! An extremely amazing story of survival)
70. Tracks by Robyn Davidson
71. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving
72. Cooper's Creek by Alan Moorehead
73. The Fearful Void by Geoffrey Moorhouse
74. No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
75. Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
76. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
77. Minus 148° by Art Davidson (another favorite!)
78. Travels by Ibn Battúta
79. Jaguars Ripped My Flesh by Tim Cahill
80. Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell
81. Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy
82. Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler (still need to read this one..she's special to me since she wrote Cherry's biography lol)
83. We Die Alone by David Howarth (another amazing one)
84. Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins
85. Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray
86. Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins
87. Adventures in the Wilderness by William H. H. Murray
88. The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti (great mountaineer!)
89. Great Heart by James West Davidson and John Rugge
90. Journal of the Voyage to the Pacific by Alexander Mackenzie
91. The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark
92. The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau
93. Alaska Wilderness by Robert Marshall
94. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians by George Catlin
95. I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
96. The Descent of Pierre Saint-Martin by Norbert Casteret
97. The Crystal Horizon by Reinhold Messner (I read one of his books, but he's not really a great writer, so I haven't read any of his others)
98. Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River by John Kirk Townsend
99. Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock
100. One Man's Mountains by Tom Patey