Adventurers & Explorers
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The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer
$17.99 Add to cart“Stunning and stirring.”
—Boston Globe
In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told throu
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061560952
- Language: English
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The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors, 10th Anniversary Edition
$21.95 Read more- Features a new “where are they now” section, updating readers on lives of expedition’s original climbers
- Fully updated and detailed resources based on the “Anti-Racism in the Outdoors” (ARITO) guide
- Author: Mills, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1680516809
- Language: English
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The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story Of A 23-Year-Old’s Summit Of Mt. Everest
$30.00 Add to cartIn 1996, a twenty-three-year-old soldier in the British Army was flying over an African desert on a routine parachute jump. He had a lot to look forward to-a long career ahead of him in the army, a be… [more below]
- Author: Grylls, Bear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1493040952
- Language: English
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Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures
$17.99 Add to cartWho is Marco Polo and why does his name sound so familiar? Yet why do most people seem to have no idea about who he is?
This book takes you eight centuries back in time to journey with one of the most
- Author: Towle, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 139632108X
- Language: English
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Conrad Weiser: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
$49.95 Add to cartIf one man could be said to exemplify in his character the promise of America’s greatness, that man was Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania frontiersman of the Colonial period. This biography of one of the ke
- Author: Wallace, Paul A. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065339
- Language: English
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Heidi Across America: One Woman’s Journey on a Bicycle Through the Heartland
$17.95 Add to cartA memoir of homecoming – Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.
In the summer of 2010, Heidi- Author: Beierle, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0757324975
- Language: English
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Chariot of Fate
$16.95 Add to cartLife vanishing in the “rearview mirror” and friends’ questions “how did you meet your husband” inspire Sigrun to delve into a colorful past.
Her life was touched by a parade of interesting events and p
- Author: Norton, Sigrun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886541410
- Language: English
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Paddling with Spirits: A Solo Kayak Journey
$21.95 Add to cartInspired partly by her own spirit of adventure, and partly by the stories of her native coastal ancestors, Irene Skyriver celebrated her fortieth year of life with a solo kayak voyage, paddling from A
- Author: Skyriver, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0998701246
- Language: English
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810
$19.95 Add to cartGeorge Drouillard’s service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from ma… [more below]
- Author: Skarsten, M. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293097
- Language: English
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The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1930, four decades after the surrender of Geronimo, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south in search of a rumored band of “wild” Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Goodwin’s journals chronicling h… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Grenville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803271026
- Language: English
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Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
$29.95 Add to cartIn October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after… [more below]
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Eisele, Donn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803262833
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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The Man Who Would Be King
$25.99 Add to cartThe Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling’s classic tale and a John Huston movie
In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an ele- Author: Ben, MacIntyre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529574
- Language: English
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The Last Ivory Hunter
$34.99 Add to cartA chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson, a grand tale of African adventure by renowned hunting author P
- Author: Capstick, Peter Hathaway
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0312000480
- Language: English
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Survive the Savage Sea: Sheridan House Maritime Classics
$16.95 Add to cartAfter their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only … [more below]
- Series: Sheridan House Maritime Classics
- Author: Robertson, Dougal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493049380
- Language: English
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As Long as It’s Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
$18.95 Read moreTo anyone interested in small-boat cruising and voyaging, the names Lin and Larry Pardey need no introduction. As world-girdling sailors who roamed the planet on a pair of small, engineless boats that… [more below]
- Author: McCormick, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1929214987
- Language: English
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West with the Night
$19.99 Add to cartMarkham is often described as “the first person” to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, … [more below]
- Author: Markham, Beryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964589
- Language: English
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John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder
$32.95 Add to cartJohn Mullan’s celebrated construction project–a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers–established the West Point graduate as an accomplished road builder. After completing th
- Author: Petersen, Keith C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0874223210
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
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Corky Carroll – Not Done Yet: An epic journey of the planet’s first professional surfer.
$19.95 Add to cartCome along for the ride of a lifetime. Kick back and enjoy, while Corky takes you along in his travels across the globe and shares, in his unique flair for telling a good story, about his storied, and
- Author: Carroll, Corky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0578624710
- Language: English
