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Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World

Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World

Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World

Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World

Overview

"Gripping, exhilarating and inspiring." Sir Ranulph Fiennes, world's greatest living explorer.

Why did some people in history achieve at an epic level and others did not? What were they doing that was different from their contemporaries? And how can we bring these insights into our modern lives to help us achieve our own successes?

Starring an international cast of real-life people:

  • Roald Amundsen -- the great Norwegian explorer
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- the greatest engineer the world has ever seen
  • Theodore Roosevelt -- the cowboy turned statesman

Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results reveals the bold ambitions that set each of these maverick leader's larger-than-life projects into motion.

Written by the award-winning author duo: decision scientist Brad Borkan and historian David Hirzel (co-authors of When Your Life Depends on It), their new book reveals in thrilling ways, the outsized risks and setbacks Amundsen, Brunel and Roosevelt endured. It also shows their remarkable legacy for our planet.

Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results dives deeply into their famous projects such as:

  • The harrowing building of the first tunnel under a river in the 1820s - an achievement with lasting impact on all cities today,
  • How today's time zones were precipitated by the Great Western Railway (then the longest and fastest in the world),
  • The epic construction of the Panama Canal, and
  • One man's quest for the South Pole.

It takes you up close and personal to the hardships and triumphs that turned these flawed individuals into legendary champions. Their endeavors are inspiring and gripping examples of the nature of the human spirit - showing our need to achieve and the desire to dream big to accomplish something magnificent and lasting.

If you enjoy books about real-life action, adventure, success and failure, such as Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, or Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, you will love Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results.

Buy Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results today and be prepared to be awed by the Explorer, the Engineer and the Statesman. You may never look at the world in the same way again.

And get ready to become inspired to undertake your own epic adventures.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781945312144
Publisher: Terra Nova Press
Publication date: 07/28/2021
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Brad Borkan has always been fascinated with how people and businesses can make better decisions. With a graduate degree in Decision Sciences, this London-based Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society has presented at business and Antarctic conferences, appeared on US-based cable TV, and on numerous historical and business-focused podcasts. Brad's expertise lies in the themes of leadership, teamwork, and winning against the odds.

David Hirzel is a maritime historian and author. His passion is early Antarctic exploration, expressed in his books such as the Sailor on Ice series about Tom Crean, one of Shackleton's hardiest men. When not writing or sailing in San Francisco Bay, David pursues his career in residential architecture. David is a popular guest lecturer for Viking and other cruise lines.

Table of Contents

The NASA Mars Rover

Man In The Arena Speech

Prologue: It's Your Call

Introduction: Monumental Impact

Part 1: Bold In His Plans: The Engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1 Undaunted by Challenge: The Tunnel That Changed Our Modern Cities

2 A Bottle Of Wine Set Aside

3 The Thames Tunnel's Immense Legacy

4 Thinking Audaciously: The Railway That Transformed How Time Is Measured

5 More Than A Set Of Tracks

6 The Great Western Railway's Dazzling Legacy

Part 2: Daring Greatly: The Statesman, Theodore Roosevelt

7 Even A Bullet Couldn't Stop Him

8 Seizing Opportunities: The Origins Of The World's Conservation Movement

9 Preserving Nature And Wildlife On A Grand Scale

10 A Legacy Of Conservation

11 Solving the Right Problem: The Waterway That Accelerated Global Trade

12 Competing Visions For The Canal

13 The Monumental Legacy Of The Panama Canal

Part 3: Let No Obstacle Turn You Back: The Explorer, Roald Amundsen

14 The Open Window

15 Adventure Is Just Bad Planning: The 500-Year Quest For The Northwest Passage

16 Planning To Succeed Where Others Had Failed

17 The Enduring Legacy Of Amundsen's Quest For The Northwest Passage

18 Synthesizing Everything You Have Learned: Reaching The Ends Of The Earth

19 False Starts, Crevasses And Letters To The King

20 The Legacy Of Achieving The South Pole

Part 4: Enduring Lessons

21 Ten Lessons From An Explorer, An Engineer, And A Statesman

22 They Never Stopped Achieving

23 Movers And Shapers Of The Earth's Geography

24 The Greatest Lesson Of All

25 The Ultimate Legacy: Delivered In A Mars Rover Parachute

Appendix

I Timeline

II Overlaps of People and Projects

III Recommended Reading

Acknowledgements

Notes About The Photographs

About The Authors

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