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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”. Available September 2007.  US$ 27.95 / C$29.95

Living Adventurers Recall the Youthful Dream Launching their Remarkable Lives!

A Who's Who of 120 living explorers-with names like Cousteau, Leakey, 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 these larger-than-life individuals. If you're interested in the exhilarating rewards of followings one's dreams, this is the book!

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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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.

Click to order: www.lulu.com/themanilagalleon

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Nepal Gold

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

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

Although this is a genealogical work I’ve researched since 1968, its 800 plus 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; 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—you have my permission to use in the same manner verbatim for your own genealogical work.

For part of the Prologue, ordering information—and a period drawings of two actual homes Klaus built: www.geocities.com/mfs53211/Westwardadv.htm
This is the Schoonovers in America site, ably run by Mary Schoonover of Milwaukee, with the Master Tree containing over 20,000 names.