Expedition Fiction

Discover how to turn an idea into a story, a story into a book, and a book into a dream fulfilled. Write with clarity, confidence, and direction. An idea lingers in your mind. Maybe it has haunted you for weeks, or perhaps it is just a whisper that flickers between your thoughts before fading away. But there’s something about it; a spark, a promise, telling you it could grow into a great story. The problem is not inspiration but the path forward. Where do you begin? How do you turn that intuition into a powerful, well-written narrative? The Narrative Expedition: A Journey into Creative ...

The tale of a 1928 excursion up the Amazon River to the Black Trench, a dangerous waterway through the jungle which leads to another mysterious river. The group of adventurers include a rich playboy and his two party girls, two priests with their own agenda, a famous hunter, and the man who brought them all together on this venture. With an experienced captain and crew, the steamboat will take them all to one of the most dangerous places on Earth as they discover a lost city, hostile natives, and more.

Clever or lucky? Does it really matter if you’re still alive? Having survived sure death, Horus and his friends barely have time to breathe before they rush off to face the impossible again. It’s for a good cause. Finding really nice guy’s long-missing son is something you kind of have to do right away. It’s just good manners. There’s less guilt, and your mom won’t nag you as much afterward.

In this ninth action-packed Victorian military adventure, Paul Fraser Collard's roguish hero Jack Lark - soldier, leader, impostor - crosses borders once more as he pursues a brand-new adventure in Africa. As he journeys across the table-top mountains of Abyssinia to the fortress of Magdala, Jack quickly discovers that nowhere is safe and nobody can be trusted. Expect devious spies, brutal murders, treasure hunting and action aplenty.

Agent Gideon Crew erhält den Auftrag, aus einer Ausstellung in New York eine Seite aus einer berühmten frühmittelalterlichen Handschrift zu stehlen. Ein gefundenes Fressen für den begnadeten Kunstdieb - der Coup gelingt. Auf dem Pergament schimmert eine alte Seekarte hindurch. Sie kündet von einer Reise, die vor Jahrtausenden in der Ägäis begann und zu einer Karibikinsel führte. Dort gab es offenbar eine Heilpflanze, die Kranke gesund macht und das Leben verlängert. Die Aussicht auf ein Milliardengeschäft!

It’s Easter time. Spid is excited about chocolate eggs and a very special cake – until he notices that carrots and lettuces are vanishing from his vegetable patch. How could they just disappear? Is there a vegetable thief at work? As he investigates, Spid must be as clever as Cleverley Evaleigh to solve the mystery. But can you solve the mystery before Spid in this fun Easter book for kids?

July 12th 1776. Captain James Cook sails from Plymouth in the Resolution in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. It is his third amazing voyage of discovery and this is the story he might have written. Hammond Innes has created a brilliantly imagined diary, showing a great man stretched to his limits. It is a voyage that will sweep Captain Cook and his crew from the icy wasteland of the Arctic, to the tropical waters of Hawaii.

The ancient Fael entombed the Anaxagorum in a sarcophagus deep underground 10,000 years ago. The "living book" of magic had no place in a world of reason, and if those hiding it did their job well, no human eye would ever see it again. John the Booker, Librast of Northem, writes his eyewitness account of how the execrated thing re-emerged and spilled eldritch magic over a civilization with only swords and muscle to fight it.

Julen närmar sig med stormsteg och i den lilla bokaffären ska ägaren Rune äntligen få ett besök av en känd författare. Han har köpt in massor av böcker som han hoppas få sålt under dagen. Svea och Annie är stamkunder i bokaffären, fast i ärlighetens namn köper de sällan något, men de är ofta där och läser. De älskar nämligen böcker.

Absoluter Klimakollaps, todbringende Regierungsverschwörungen und der Aufbruch zu einem weit entfernten Planeten. Eine faszinierender, dystopischer Science-Fiction-Thriller über den verzweifelten Kampf ums Überleben und den Fortbestand der Menschheit. Wassermassen überschwemmen die Küsten. Ganze Länder werden von der Landkarte getilgt. Weltweit fliehen die Menschen ins Innere der Kontinente. Im Jahr 2042 gibt es nur noch eine Jahreszeit: den Sommer.

The year is 2056, and the entire world is dying of a plague. A monster named Mary M and a robot are the ones sent to find the cure.

Join Buster and Lass for a special undersea counting adventure from 1 to 10! It's fun and different. Can your child imagine an undersea adventure and count the new friends as they arrive? You bet they can! This Bugville Jr Learning Adventure, written by best-selling author Robert Stanek, is designed to build number sense and 1 to 10 counting skills.

In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy’s storm-warning system and ‘forecasts’ would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God’s great wrath, 19th-century meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma.

Eila, ein wissbegieriges Mädchen im Alter von ca. 9 Jahren, reist in ihren Träumen immer wieder in die Vergangenheit. Sie besucht besondere Orte, die in der Geschichte der Erde von jeher eine wichtige Rolle gespielt haben. An diesen Orten erfährt sie von altem Wissen, das in der heutigen Zeit verloren gegangen is Sie erhält die Aufgabe, dieses Wissen wieder aufleben zu lassen und den Kindern in unserer Welt davon zu erzählen. Als "Botschafterin der Kinder" will sie versuchen, die Welt wieder zu einem liebevolleren Ort zu machen.

Im Jahr 2114: Auf der Erde und den Welten der Terranischen Union leben die Menschen in Frieden und Freiheit. Gemeinsam arbeitet man am Aufbau einer positiven Zukunft. Doch alle wissen: In der fernen Galaxis M 87 lauert eine feindliche Macht, die jederzeit angreifen kann. Ihr Name ist Catron. Mit dem riesigen Raumschiff BASIS brechen Perry Rhodan und eine wagemutige Besatzung dorthin auf. Nach ersten Erkundungsflügen erleben sie eine Überraschung: Sie ­stoßen auf die verschollene SOL und können sie aus einer Dimensionsfalle retten.

Riley Cooper is offered the chance of a lifetime: to find the Crux Fidelis, the coronation cross of Charlemagne. Under Water Sea Adventures members believe they have found the remains of the Indigo, a heavily laden cargo ship commissioned by Charlemagne and presumed lost on its maiden voyage off the coast of southern Italy in the early 800s.

Rife with captivating details of survival in an icy wilderness, this reimagining of the famous 1910 expedition to the South Pole, told in Cherry's voice, is an unforgettable tale of courage and camaraderie.

In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January and did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places and people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada.

Platsch! Was ist denn da in der Kürbissuppe gelandet? Tafiti und Pinsel staunen nicht schlecht, als sie einen kleinen Goldmull aus der Suppe fischen. Mulle ist auf dem Weg zum Halbmondsee. Dort gibt es den magischen Wunschstein, der dem Ersten, der ihn findet, seinen Herzenswunsch erfüllt. Tafiti und Pinsel bieten Mulle an, ihm zu helfen und so ziehen die drei gemeinsam los. Doch auf ihrer Expedition lauern unzählige Gefahren. Als sie den Wunschstein endlich gefunden haben, werden Tafiti, Pinsel und Mulle aber von einem hungrigen Löwenrudel angegriffen.

Bei einer Antarktis-Expedition stoßen Wissenschaftler auf die gefrorenen Leichen seltsamer Wesen...