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Marco Polo

by Laurence Bergreen

As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous...


The 1000 Hour Day: Two Adventurers Take on the World's Harshest Island

by Chris Bray

In 2005, Australians Chris Bray (then 21 years old) and Clark Carter (20) dreamed of embarking on an adventure completely different from any polar, mountaineering, or river expedition ever before attempted....


Snake-Bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park

by Nancy Cushing & Kevin Markwell

Based on extensive interviews with park staff and supporters, this intriguing biography traces the life of Eric Worrell, the original reptile man and naturalist who established the Australian Reptile Park in...


The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

by Scott Wallace

THE UNCONQUERED TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE AMAZON TO TRACK ONE OF THE PLANET’S LAST UNCONTACTED IN DIGENOUS TRIBES.

 

Even today there remain tribes in...


Mud, Sweat, and Tears

by Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on a remote island off of Britain's windswept coast, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn't long...


South

by Ernest Shackleton

This astonishing memoir of Shackleton's final voyage explores courage, tenacity and unflagging hope in the face of adversity. South remains one of the greatest adventures of the twentieth century.


The Ledge: An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival

by Jim Davidson & Kevin Vaughan

“The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and...


Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women behind the World's Most Daring Explorers

by Kari Herbert & Jon Bowermaster

Polar explorers were the superstars of the “heroic age” of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In this engaging book, author Kari Herbert explores the unpredictable, often heartbreaking...


Daniel Boone

by Michael A. Lofaro

" The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age -- the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life...


The Man Who Quit Money

by Mark Sundeen

A Walden for the 21st century, the true story of a man who has radically reinvented "the good life"

In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings—all thirty dollars of it—in a phone booth. He has been living...


Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

by James M. Tabor

In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. American Bill Stone took on the vast, deadly Cheve Cave in southern Mexico. Ukrainian Alexander Klimchouk targeted Krubera, a...


The Voyage of the Rose City: An Adventure at Sea

by John Moynihan

A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea

 

When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father,...


Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

Samuel Johnson 2012

by Wade Davis

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine...


Wild Men, Wild Alaska

by Rocky McElveen

In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers...


Lost in the Amazon

by Harry Harrison

In 1995, Stephen Kirkpatrick joined a five-man expedition into the remote jungles of the Peruvian Amazon. Kirkpatrick's assignment was to document an area of the rainforest that had never before been photographed,...


The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd

by Richard Zacks

Everybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, Americas most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a tough New York sea captain hired...


When I Fell From the Sky

by Juliane Diller (Koepcke)

She was 17-years-old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into...


Holding Fast: The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy

by Karen James

A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt. Hood.

In December 2006, millions of people across the world prayed and waited in anguish to learn the fate of 3 climbers trapped on Mt. Hood....


The Mammoth Book of The Deep

by Jon E. Lewis

Dive in. Death is only a breath away& Just when you thought it was safe & The Mammoth Book of The Deep presents 30 true-life stories of danger, endurance and adventure from this final frontier. Encounter great...


The Mammoth Book of Pirates

by Jon E. Lewis

A rollicking tour of the history of the high seas with Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonney and other figures of maritime legend. Includes Francis 'The Scourge of Spain' Drake's audacious...