Adventurers & Explorers
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness
$18.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for The Last Alaskans–the hit documentary series now on the Discovery+–James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 074345314X
- Language: English
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Another Bend in the River, the Happy Camper’s Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartOutdoor author and educator Kevin Callan (aka The Happy Camper) has always suffered from high anxiety. Where did Kevin go to escape this anxiety? He didn’t find relief on a psychologist’s couch or pop
- Author: Callan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 199952862X
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$19.99 Read moreWith nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a sing… [more below]
- Author: Clark, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 142621717X
- Language: English
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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “masterful chronicle” of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets.
Featuring a history and description of the maj
- Author: Carlsen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0062407406
- Language: English
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
$17.99 Add to cartOn January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself p
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347788
- Language: English
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Dersu the Trapper
$18.00 Read moreVladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological,… [more below]
- Series: Recovered Classics
- Author: Arseniev, V. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 351
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0929701496
- Language: English
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
$17.99 Add to cartSpaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.
When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie C- Author: Teitel, Amy Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1538716054
- Language: English
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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land
$16.95 Add to cartIn this New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatem… [more below]
- Author: ?lvarez, No?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1646220536
- Language: English
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and sco
- Series: American Grit #0
- Author: Marshall, David Weston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682684423
- Language: English
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One Man’s West
$24.95 Add to cartThe American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers s… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 080326030X
- Language: English
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures
$12.99 Add to cartHere is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir’s most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosem… [more below]
- Author: Stetson, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1930238371
- Language: English
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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
$19.99 Add to cart“In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will… [more below]
- Author: Caesar, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1501143387
- Language: English
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Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey from My Doorstep to the Arctic
$26.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history. Looking out his porch window one spring- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0735241015
- Language: English
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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler
$15.99 Add to cartHe was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Roberts, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0007161263
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
$18.00 Add to cartA rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.
Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had lef
- Author: Braverman, Blair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0062311573
- Language: English
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Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
$30.00 Add to cartA life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild
At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many exp
- Author: Ridgeway, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 193834099X
- Language: English
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Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
$19.99 Read more“A layered inquisition and a reportorial force…a technicolor mystery…. In prose that moves like a clear river….Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story to its last
- Author: Rustad, Harley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062965972
- Language: English
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Forerunners to the Uncharted Amazon: Embracing a Stone Age Tribe
$21.95 Add to cartFew have ever known the honor and mystique of growing up in the virgin Amazon rainforest. In the late 1950s, Paul Johnson’s family of six chose to leave the comforts of Canada to disappear into stark
- Series: Rain Forest Memoirs Trilogy #1
- Author: Johnson, Paul Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: August 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685179320
- Language: English
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More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
$27.95 Read moreAn intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world’s top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage.
As one of the world’s leading female professi- Author: Burhardt, Majka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363491
- Language: English
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who pro
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0140159940
- Language: English
