Adventurers & Explorers
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The Roast Penguin Chronicles: Hoosh, Scurvy Days, Sleeping with Vegetables, and Other Adventures in Antarctic Cuisine
$23.99 Add to cartRoast Penguin Chronicles is a savory, eclectic stew, unlike anything ever written about Antarctica. With echoes of Anthony Bourdain and characters painted with a Monty Pythonesque brush, it explores t
- Author: Anthony, Jason C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991456333
- Language: English
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William Trent: Factor of Ambition
$34.95 Add to cartOn December 1st, 1784, along a cold and wintry Fourth Street in Philadelphia, Major William Trent sputtered his last breath surrounded by friends and family and soon became forgotten in history.
The so
- Author: Cherry, Jason A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888191859
- Language: English
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Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now
$28.00 Add to cartDiscover Florida’s unique places across
How has
time through writings from history
Florida’s land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and
what remains only in memory? In Tracing
Flo- Series: Co-Published with Florida Humanities
- Author: Poole, Leslie Kemp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0813080479
- Language: English
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Beyond Everest: One Sherpa’s Summit and Hope for Nepal
$15.99 Add to cartOne small man, one giant mountain: a Sherpa’s quest to create a better future, one perilous step at a time.
Every success story begins with a single step in the right direction. Pem Dorjee Sherpa’s jou
- Author: Richardson, Corinne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1961624850
- Language: English
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A Place Among Giants: 22 Seasons at Denali Basecamp
$33.33 Add to cartTwenty two years of love, triumph, and tragedy on North America’s tallest mountain.
Lisa Roderick had already forged an unlikely path, from growing up on a farm in Connecticut to driving the Alaska Hig
- Author: Roderick, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962603067
- Language: English
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Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali
$28.00 Add to cartThe gripping story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970
Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an- Author: Randall, Cassidy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1419771531
- Language: English
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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
$17.95 Add to cartOn an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf
- Author: Shattuck, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030825
- Language: English
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The Journals of Captain Cook
$33.99 Add to cartDepicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of Jam
- Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
- Author: Cook, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1513206818
- Language: English
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Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination
$14.99 Add to cartIt’s time we celebrated women in adventure
An inspiring anthology full of stories from women who have completed incredible adventures and achieved amazing feats around the globe. The perfect collectio- Author: Tough, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1787833003
- Language: English
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Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari
$19.95 Add to cartNo other book can give you the feel of Africa like this one can.
- Author: Ruark, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: August 26 2002
- ISBN10: 1571572635
- Language: English
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
$32.00 Add to cartWhen Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn’t slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 1997
- ISBN10: 679457526
- Language: English
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The World Walk: 7 Years. 28,000 Miles. 6 Continents. a Grand Meditation, One Step at a Time.
$28.99 Add to cartThe World Walk is the invigorating true story of a man and his dog who circled the globe on foot.
After the death of a close friend at seventeen, Tom Turcich resolved to make the most out of life; to- Author: Turcich, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1510779019
- Language: English
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Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
$29.00 Add to cartA memoir of the author’s journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.
Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the na- Author: Hutchison, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285704
- Language: English
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Back of Beyond a Horace Kephart Biography
$18.99 Read moreAn icon of the Southern Appalachian region known for the seminal books Camping and Woodcraft and Our Southern Highlanders, Horace Kephart was instrumental in efforts to create a national park in the S… [more below]
- Author: Ellison, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0937207942
- Language: English
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The Seventymile Kid: The Lost Legacy of Harry Karstens and the First Ascent of Mount McKinley
$19.95 Read more* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinley–setting the record straight
* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley’s first ascent
* Features arc… [more below]- Author: Walker, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1594857296
- Language: English
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Heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“Follow author John Fraley as he traces the lives and times of past and present heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, from old-timers like Joe Murphy, to Smoke Elser, and on to the present. Over the … [more below]
- Author: Fraley, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1560377747
- Language: English
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River Master: John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological s… [more below]
- Author: Kuhne, Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1682685187
- Language: English
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The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
$16.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Spellbinding adventure from Canada’s most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remo- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0735241066
- Language: English
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Red Cloud and the Indian Trader: The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1871, JW Dear met Red Cloud, the leader of the Oglala, who at that time was probably the most powerful and respected Indian chief in America. For the next twelve years the two men liv
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn Dear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073907
- Language: English
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Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime
$30.00 Read moreNepali climber Nims Purja is the first man ever to summit all fourteen of the world’s 8000 meter “Death Zone” peaks in less than seven months. His breakthrough timing beat the previous record of seven… [more below]
- Author: Purja, Nims
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 142622253X
- Language: English
