Author Archives: jason@jasonschoonover.com
AN ADVENTURER’S SEVEN POINT GUIDE TO LIVING AN INTERESTING LIFE
Jason Schoonover is often asked, ‘How come you’re able to live an interesting life while the rest of us got stuck with jobs, spouse, kids and mortgages?’ Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his contribution to the RCGS and Canadian exploration, Fellow Emeritus, Stefansson Medalist,… Read More
ADVENTUROUS DREAMS, ADVENTUROUS LIVES
Preface by National Geographic Explorer-in-residence Meave Leakey. 120 colour & b/w photos. 6.6″ x 9.5″ A Who’s Who of 120 contemporary adventurers—with names like Survivorman Les Stroud, Robert Ballard, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Sea Hunter Jim Delgado, Bertrand Piccard, the Trieste’s Don Walsh, Lucy discoverer Don Johanson, seven summits pioneer Pat Morrow, National Geographic Explorer-in-residence Wade Davis… Read More
Thai Gold
High in the Himalayas a Buddhist monk is savagely murdered, his monastery ransacked and stolen is Asia’s most sacred icon: the jewel-encrusted head of Gautama Buddha. When a wealthy client calls on adventurer Lee Rivers to track down the priceless treasure, he doesn’t expect to be pitted against ruthless drug traffickers, bloodthirsty Sikhs, cold-blooded Russian… Read More
Opium Dream
Kublai Khan’s long lost tomb site is discovered in Afghanistan’s Desert of Death! Adventurer Lee Rivers is sent in to recover the greatest find of his career as an antiquities collector. He never expected it would lead to entrapment in a brilliant conspiracy to destroy Western civilization! Why people are trying to kill him in… Read More
The Manila Galleon
The Manila galleon was the richest treasure ship sailing between Acapulco and Manila for 250 years. The Manila Galleon is two adventure-thrillers dovetailing chapter-by-chapter—one in 1704, the other today. Protagonists in each—one an innocent young privateer from the frontier town of New York; the other a jaded National Geographic writer from modern Manhattan—share a mystery:… Read More
Westward from New Amsterdam
The massive, definitive genealogical work on the Schoonover/Van Schoonhoven family includes the many famous Schoonovers and Van Vliets from historic writer Lawrence and illustrator Frank (Call of the Wild) to Jo Van Fleet who won an academy award for acting as James Dean’s mother in East of Eden, and Paul Newman’s in Cool Hand Luke, New… Read More
Nepal Gold
This is Thai Gold renamed for Nepalese and Indian readers by my publishers there because of the strong plot-and-action connection with Nepal. It’s also the third name (The Bangkok Collection/Thai Gold/Nepal Gold) and fourth publisher since this adventure-thriller first came out in 1987. I’m a leg man and this one has great legs! Set in… Read More