Jet travel, communications satellites, and a new awareness of the immensity of space, have all conspired to shrink our image of our earth in the second half of the twentieth century. But the quest for adventure is as alive now as it ever was in the great periods of exploration. Beginning with the voyage of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki, Chris Bonington looks at the adventurous expeditioning impulses which have driven men and woman to accomplish remarkable feats in all the earth's elements-crossing its oceans, deserts and poles, canoeing its rivers, climbing its mountains, in balloons above and caves beneath its surface, and in outer space. He examines the motivation of Thesiger, as compared with Chichester, explores the degree of risk accepted by Bonatti on the Dru, Knox-Johnston in the Southern Ocean or Wally Herbert crossing the Artic. He has travelled extensively to talk to most of the adventurers whose achievements are retold in this book. Quest for Adventure is a collection of marv