Here's one in a similar genre that you guys would probably enjoy; The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Edward Beauclerk Maurice.

It's an autobiography based on his memoirs and was published posthumously.

He signed up with the Hudson Bay Company at age sixteen in 1930 and shipped from England to the Canadian Arctic where he documented his work and interactions with whalers, the French and the Inuits. It is a very interesting read.

Thanks for that Bernie, I'll have to find a copy.

Best book of the year is The Wager (a British sailing ship in 1740s). Packed full of adventure and it is a true story.

I read this and thought it was great too.

I just finished "The Long Walk" https://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-True-Story-Freedom/dp/149302261X. It is a story of some Poles and Russians who were locked up in one of Stalin's Gulags during 1939 - 1940 and how they decide to escape. Eventually they decide on a 4,000 mile trip which takes them across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to their end location in India. Riveting true story.

Kenny Salwey good author. Another book i enjoyed was "Alaska's Wolfman" by Frank Readon if i got my words right.

Reading opens the door to an amazing world that many of us would never know about with out the experiences being put on paper .A good writer has the skill to make the words come alive to each reader That is why books are so important to the people of the whole world And it explains the importance of the first amendment and of course the rest that are about basic freedom The right.to free speech is the key to people learning