A6 was Awesome 6, the last adventure for kids (16-17) who had been returning to our summer youth program, Awesome Adventures, for years, Our 'sleepaway' expeditions began with Awesome 1 (A1), a weeklong program of canoeing , caving and high ropes in the Adirondacks, then progressed each summer culminating with A6
The treacherous betrayal after an agreed upon truce with the loss of ships, crew, and his brothers left Francis Drake with no kindly intentions towards the Spanish
"A most consequential decade in our history. When people believed they could make a difference, when they grew up thinking about the Peace Corps, when they joined the Freedom Riders, when they did sit-ins. when they were marching. When they believed America could be changed through collective action. When you feel you can make a difference, you are authentically alive," Doris Kearns Goodwin
Discover the surreal, tragic, and zesty history of the Comanche Indians, from their legendary horse-mounted pageantry at Medicine Lodge Creek to their unique culinary traditions that defined a lost era of the American West.
A canoe trip through Florida's Everglades with a group of Japanese students takes a dramatic turn when two boys quietly paddle off into the wilderness.
Long before humans walked the earth, a Diplodocus named Dippy lived, swallowed stones to help digest her food, and met her end in a brutal Allosaurus attack on the shores of a Jurassic lagoon. Millions of years later, a paleontologist in the Utah mountains stumbled upon her fossilized bones.
Standing aboard the USS Alabama — a WWII battleship whose 16-inch guns fired shells the height of a man — Capt. Cork traces the evolution of naval warfare from iron-hulled Civil War gunboats on the Mississippi
Outnumbered and facing Napoleon's combined fleet off Cape Trafalgar, Britain's Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson threw out the naval rulebook and attacked in a bold perpendicular charge that cut the enemy line in two
Standing in the ancient canyon country of western Colorado, where rivers have been cutting through stone for 100 million years, Capt. Cork reflects on the vanishingly brief moment that humans occupy on Earth's timeline.
A geology lesson told with wonder: the Rocky Mountains' dramatic terrain is the result of tectonic plates colliding, volcanoes erupting, and millions of years of uplift and erosion working in concert. In Colorado's volcanic San Juan Mountains.
Step inside the "Pompeii of the Sea" to discover the skeleton of a Tudor legend. Learn how the grueling life of a longbowman on Henry VIII’s Mary Rose left a permanent mark on history—and on the very bones of "The Archer."
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