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Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives
Collected & Edited by Jason Schoonover.  Preface by Meave Leakey.
ISBN 978-1-894765-91-6. 240pp (tbc). Softcover.  120 colour & b/w photos.
6.625” x 9.5”. Published September 2007.  $19.76

 

Living Adventurers Recall the Youthful Dream Launching their Remarkable Lives!

A Who's Who of 120 living explorers-with names like Cousteau, Stroud, Currie, Ballard, Piccard and Sir Chris Bonington-recall that indelible Aha Moment they experienced in childhood setting the sails on their lives' exciting courses. Obstacles overcome and turning points to fulfill their quests are detailed, along with their greatest discoveries.

Inspirational in the extreme, Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives gives you unique insight into  the earliest inspirations of these larger-than-life individuals. If you're interested in the exhilarating rewards of followings one's dreams, this is the book!

Buzz Aldrin writes on the cover: I had no idea when I had my first youthful dream of flight that it would take me all the way to the moon - but that's the power unleashed in following one's dreams. Jason Schoonover's book should be required reading in every school.

Who would have ever thought that a boy who couldn't read, and whose only talent seemed to be finding interesting rocks, could possibly end up in a book like this? As is evident in Jason Schoonover's book, happiness is the dream followed.
- Jack Horner

Following an adventurous dream is not always easy-or everyone would be doing it! Recognizing early that it's going to be a struggle prepares you for the obstacles ahead-and they never end. Think of Jason Schoonover's book as a guidebook of lives which have followed the same compass heading.
- Sir Ran Fiennes, Guinness Book of World Records "world's greatest living explorer"

Explorers are not born swashbucklers. The boldest adventurers more often than not begin their quests in childhood with the quiet and solitary reading of a book-such as this one. I dare you to read Jason Schoonover's introduction and try to set this book aside!
- George Bass, the Father of Underwater Archaeology

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Thai Gold

An international bestseller.
In the Steamy Far East, A Legendary Treasure Beckons....

Everyone in the Golden Triangle and in the world of antiquities has heard The Rumor, but few believe it’s more than local myth—until high in the Himalayas, a Buddhist monk is murdered and his monastery ransacked. Among the stolen treasures is the most sacred icon of the Eastern world—the gold-and-jewel-encrusted head of Guatama Buddha. When a wealthy client calls on collector and adventurer Lee Rivers to track down the macabre—and priceless—relic, he finds the assignment irresistible. River’s specialties are Asian antiquities, exotic women, and high-priced danger. But nothing he has survived up to now can prepare him for this unholy quest. And no woman he has ever enjoyed can compare to the mysterious and sensual Tysee, the daughter of a violent Burmese warlord. Together, River and Tysee find themselves pitted against a brutal tribe of drug traffickers, ruthless ex-Nazis, bloodthirsty Sikhs, cold-blooded KGB agents, and a relentless CIA operative—all determined to recover the head at any cost!

A tour de force . . . accurate to a fault.
-Bangkok Post

The book I’ve most reread is Thai Gold by Jason Schoonover.
-Jack Du Brul, co-author with Clive Cussler of six books

Stands heroically un-PC in a literary world.
-Bangkok Nation

Click to order Kindle ebook at $2.99: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005Q0ZOP0

    Available at Asia Books bookstores in Thailand.

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Opium Dream

In the Afghan Desert, an Archaeological Treasure is Unearthed....

In the exciting sequel to Thai Gold, Lee Rivers, field collector of antiquities and primitive art, is onto the hottest find of his career—Kublai Khan’s long-lost burial site and its accompanying terracotta harem. Even before he camels into Afghanistan’s Desert-of-Death to spirit out 24 of the priceless artifacts, Rivers narrowly escapes assassination in Saigon and at this home in Bangkok, and mysterious gunmen and guardian angels dog him and his motley crew of companions on their harrowing 3,000-mile escape from the desert to the relatively safe havens of Luxor and Cairo. There he learns the stunning reason—one as earth shattering as the truth about the beautiful woman he has fallen in love with.

This simply is a great book.
-Brian Callaghan, Manhattan editor

I had to ask for a late checkout from the Amari Watergate Hotel because I could not possibly wait to read the last two chapters later at home! Riveting read...one helluva good yarn. Get it! You will enjoy it.
-Lang Reid, Pattaya Mail

Great sense of characterization.
-Bangkok Metro

Antiquities and global politics is the focus, with a good cast of dodgy characters, and past and present spooks.
-Thaioasis.com

Reviews: www.pattayamail.com/510/bmm.shtml

Reviews: www.thaioasis.com/literature/bkkbangkokfiction_schoonover.php

Available at Asia Books bookstores in Thailand.

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The Manila Galleon

Twin Tales of Non-stop action and Taut Suspense....

The Manila galleon was the annual treasure ship sailing between Acapulco and Manila for 250 years. The Manila Galleon is dovetailing adventures—one in 1704, the other today. Protagonists in each—one a young privateer from the frontier town of New York, the other an adventurer from modern Manhattan—try to claim the prize. Each tries to understand the purpose of a mysterious statue aboard. In the past, it is possessed by an eccentric but brilliant Jesuit with world-shaking ambitions. The stakes are equally high on the modern side—a fortune in treasure. If al-Queda linked Asian terrorists seize it, the Religious World War we’re engaged in will explode to unimaginable levels. Past and present collide in a multi-layered climax, restoring a Legend to his rightful place in history.

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Nepal Gold

This is Thai Gold renamed for Nepalese and Indian readers and my publishers there and because of the strong connection in the plot with Nepal. It's also the third name (The Bangkok Collection/Thai Gold/Nepal Gold) and fourth publisher since this adventure-thriller first came out in 1987.  It has legs!

Sweeps from the High Himalayas to the Bar, Brothels and Backstreets of Southeast Asia - Thai Gold

Set in South and Southeast Asia, Nepal Gold takes the reader from the soaring heights of Tengboche Monastery in the shadow of Mt. Everest down into the steamy jungles of the Golden Triangle and then through the bars, brothels and backstreets of Bangkok and Manila. Full of the seamy side of an ex-pat’s life in the east, this story will carry you around the world until you feel the jet lag.

“Take your pick, there’s plenty to choose from in the book. Erudite it is not, informative it is.”
-Sam Wilkinson

Click to order: http://www.pilgrimsbooks.com/fiction.html

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Westward from New Amsterdam : The Schoonover Epic: Thirteen Generations: One Branch, One Tree, One Forest

A Family History Everyone Can Enjoy - $25 + $3 shipping on DVD.

Although this is a genealogical work I’ve researched since 1968, its almost 900 pages and 100-200 images (and growing) are of interest not only to all other Schoonovers, but to other genealogists of whatever name. For fellow Schoonovers, this is because of the massive detail about early generations we share since developer Klaus Van Schoonhoven clomped in his wooden shoes onto Government Wharf in New Amsterdam in 1652 (and his brother Guert soon after); for others not so fortunate as to be a Schoonover, this is because I hung behind this 350 year epic the historic backdrop giving these lives context, breathing life into them.This material—thumbnail highlights every decade with period maps—you have my permission to use in the same manner verbatim for your own genealogical work. This work took me thousands of hours, dollars and miles to research, all well worth it.

For part of the Prologue, ordering information—and a period drawings of two actual homes Klaus built,  please go to

http://sites.google.com/site/schoonoversinamerica/index/jason-s-book-1

Mary Schoonover in Milwaukee deftly runs our Schoonovers In America website with a master tee containing over 20,000 names, making it one of the largest genealogical sites in North America. The home page is at http://sites.google.com/site/schoonoversinamerica/index  and Mary can be reached at schoonovergenealogy@gmail.com

The work is so huge it is impossible to print it in traditional book form and make it economically feasible, thus it is on DVD.