Capturing Your Audience’s Imagination
Adventurers and explorers have a way of capturing our imagination. The life or death situations they narrowly escape from, the risks they take, and the stories and images they come back with all spark excitement inside of us. The stories of explorers and their expeditions enable us to experience their adventures without having to strap on a pair of snowshoes and walk across the arctic tundra. We get much of the benefit without any of the pain!
Creating a product, a book about the explorations and adventures of famous explorers could take several years to create. Interviews, content, and images will all need to be collected or created. Who has time for that, particularly when there are truly magnificent books on the subject in the public domain?
The Last Secrets; The Final Mysteries Of Exploration by John Buchan is available on the public domain and is a real find for true adventure aficionados - http://www.archive.org/details/lastsecretsfinal00buchuoft. This book is jam packed with fantastic stories and even better images which stir the imagination and get the adrenaline pumping.
Open the book, or flip through the PDF, and the first image readers will come to is a striking photo of Mt Everest. There are more images of Everest later on as well as Mt McKinley and a wealth of maps and plates which when combined could create a fantastic stand alone product like a calendar or a coffee table book.
The Last Secrets contains nine stories of harrowing adventure. Each story could stand alone quite easily as a short book simply reprinted or you could add to each story with other known facts and images about that particular explorer, expedition or area. Everest, for example, has had hundreds of explorers summit each year and everyone has a story to tell. You could also dig up a few public domain magazine articles or images on the subject of climbing, exploring and unique areas like Everest, McKinley, and Kilimanjaro to supplement your mountaineering guide book, coffee table book or story.
The adventure stories in The Last Secrets can be updated with current maps and images as well as tips and advice for present day explorers who wish to follow in the footsteps. Your products could even include affiliate links to travel books, organizations, and adventure gear. The possibility to profit from this public domain gem is just waiting for the right person. You?
