Adventurers & Explorers
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The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
$19.00 Add to cartThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling advent… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476753873
- Language: English
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Isle of Hope
$26.95 Add to cartMichael Hawkes was born in England to an Irish mother. She returned with Michael and his twin sister to Ireland only to be taken by the Catholic Church. They then trafficked him to California where he
- Author: Hawkes, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1956452338
- Language: English
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Totch: A Life in the Everglades
$21.95 Add to cart“Totch Brown’s memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades–the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the United States–are inv
- Author: Brown, Loren G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 20 1993
- ISBN10: 0813012287
- Language: English
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American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
$26.99 Read moreImam Taymullah Abdur-Rahman’s incredible life story weaves the contemporary Black American experience with the Black Muslim American experience and emphasizes the role of interreligious dialogue in th
- Author: Abdur-Rahman, Taymullah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1506489281
- Language: English
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have d
- Author: Heinerth, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062691554
- Language: English
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The Last American Man
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings t- Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002836
- Language: English
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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story
$18.95 Read moreNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded tog- Author: Mikkelsen, Ejnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423347
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah dese… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0307591778
- Language: English
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Northern Lights: A History of the Arctic Scots
$32.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable–yet often overlooked or misidentified–Scottish contribution to Arctic explora… [more below]
- Author: Cowan, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362703
- Language: English
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The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
$19.99 Read moreOne of Atlas & Boots’ Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021
A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest–and a return to reach the summit.
On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount- Author: Davidson, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250836751
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Fell to Shore: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald
$19.95 Add to cartBorn at sea aboard his father’s hand-built sailboat and raised barefoot on her wood decks, Thomas Thor Tangvald’s oceanic childhood was full of beauty and wonder-but was also scarred by horrific trage
- Author: Doane, Charles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1957607068
- Language: English
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Into the Wild
$32.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was fou… [more below]
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 1996
- ISBN10: 067942850X
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
$21.99 Add to cartThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352435
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
$25.00 Add to cartIncorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man.
A St. Louis Post Dispat… [more below]- Author: Dearborn, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 052556361X
- Language: English
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Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West
$27.95 Add to cartMarty Ohlhaut loved the great outdoors, and he loved his family, but this time, the combination proved disastrous.
Cooped up inside due to long work hours, Marty was excited about taking off with his w
- Author: Ohlhaut, Marty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954861109
- Language: English
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A harrowing, moving first-person account of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes–and one man’s quest to lead them all home–by N… [more below]
- Author: Parrado, Nando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 140009769X
- Language: English
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On the Wandering Paths
$19.95 Read moreA walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present–more than 425,000 copies sold in France
After a free-climbing a
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Tesson, Sylvain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 1517912814
- Language: English
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The Push: A Climber’s Search for the Path
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan “The rarest of adventure reads:- Author: Caldwell, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0399562710
- Language: English
