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Adventurers
Biographies about adventurers, usually those who are famous. May focus on one adventure specifically, or else the adventurer's life itself.
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It is the foot-loose, those who have nothing to lose and much to gain, and (quite naturally) those who have not scrupulously kept all the laws—or who have felt the heavy hand of church discipline--who are most attracted to a new frontier. The first miners in California, the debtors sent to Georgia, the 'criminals' deported to Australia, were likewise held in scorn by upright stay-at-homes. What they made of themselves, and what their sons became, indicate that, for all the hard things said about
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― The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
― The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
Asros Forestborn and the Relicmaster's Gem
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