Biography & autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers

Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story

by Carol Shaben

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to.

On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote...

The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest

by Broughton Coburn

By the author of the New York Times bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963 – published to coincide with the climb's 50th...

Brutal Journey

by Paul Schneider

A gripping account of four explorers adrift in an unknown land and the harrowing journey that took them across North America 270 years before Lewis and Clark

One part Heart of Darkness, one part Lewis and Clark,...

Everest - The First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain

by Harriet Tuckey

Already awarded a prize by the Biographer’s Club, Harriet Tuckey’s book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith...

Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal

by Linda Tucker & Andrew Harvey

In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed...

Shipton and Tilman

by Jim Perrin

Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered...

Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier

by Bob Thompson

Combining the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife, Born on a Mountaintop delves deep into our love for an American icon.

Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild...

Man Proposes, God Disposes: Recollections of a French Pioneer

by Pierre Maturié, Vivien Bosley & Robert Wardhaugh

A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss.

Sole Survivor

by Ruthanne Lum Mccunn

On November 23, 1942, German U-Boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes. The sole survivor was a second steward named Poon Lim, who, with no knowledge of the sea,...

Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as Nasa's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer

by Jerry L. Ross & John Norberg

From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, but to become the most-launched...

Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers

by Lee Sandlin

With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations

From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose...

Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott

by Ellis Yochelson

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is a highly respected figure in history of geology and paleontology. Perhaps his most notable contribution to his field was his discovery of the Middle Cambrian Burgess...

The Seven Year-Old Pilot

by Capt. Steven Archille & Pascal Giacomini and

Flying has been my dream since before I can remember... literally. My Aunt Odette tells me that when I was three years old, she took me with her to the Port-au-Prince International Airport to pick someone up,...

Livingstone: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Tim Jeal

David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In...

Pedro de la Torre: Doctor to Conquerors

by John Tate Lanning

A biography of Pedro de la Torre, a 16th century physician to Spanish adventurers, with insights into medicine in the early Americas. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org)...

After Everest: Inside the Private World of Edmund Hillary

by Paul Little & Carolyne Meng-Yee

A fascinating exploration of the life of mountaineer and adventurere, Edmund Hilary - penetrating beyond the legend to reveal a character of paradoxes.

The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation

by James E. Starrs & Kira Gale

Even after more than two centuries, mystery continues to surround Meriwether Lewis’s death—did the famous explorer commit suicide or was he murdered? Recently revealed truths and deconstructed myths are...

Hazelet's Journal

by John Clark

A riveting Alaska Gold Rush saga that takes place in the Copper River Country 1898 to 1902. Hazelet's Journal is a remarkable true story not only about a man and his family, but about a nation finding its way...

A Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic Alaska

by Nick, Mr. Jans

In A Place Beyond, Nick Jans leads us into his "found" home-the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure-camping...

I Hike: Mostly True Stories from 10,000 Miles of Hiking

by Lawton Grinter

"I never set out to hike 10,000 miles. It just sort of happened over the course of a decade." And so goes Lawton Grinter's compelling collection of short stories that have been over ten years and 10,000 trail...