Adventurers & Explorers
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A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America’s Wildest Peak
$17.95 Add to cartThe captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck–an Episcopal priest–and his team’s history-making summit of Denali.
In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the talle- Author: Dean, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363033
- Language: English
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Long Way Down: An Epic Journey by Motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa
$21.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, this second remarkable travel book from famed actor Ewan McGregor and his good friend Charley Boorman chronicles their epic adventure ride on motorbikes from Scotland to South Africa… [more below]
- Author: McGregor, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1416577467
- Language: English
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El Abrazo de la Montaña: Una Historia de ValentÃa Y Redención / In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage (Spanish Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartSilvia Vásquez-Lavado Sumida en una depresión profunda y en una espiral autodestructiva de alcoholismo y sexo desmedido, Silvia decide volver a casa, dispuesta a enfrentarse a sus sombras más oscur… [more below]
- Author: Vásquez-Lavado, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 6073901259
- Language: Spanish
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Breaking Into the Backcountry
$16.95 Add to cartWriting with an elegant simplicity and resilient reverence, Edwards proves to be an astute and passionate observer of both human and Mother Nature.–Carol Haggas, Booklist Online
In 2001 Steve Edwards
- Author: Edwards, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803226535
- Language: English
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America’s First Frontier
$20.00 Add to cartOften hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions … [more below]
- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0553384570
- Language: English
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Shackleton’s Boat Journey
$21.99 Add to cartFrank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continen
- Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318648
- Language: English
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Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
$28.00 Read moreA collection of stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei (1939-2016), the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.
New in paperback, Honouring High Places is a compe
- Author: Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1771605278
- Language: English
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For the Love of It: The Mammoth Legacy of Roma & Dave McCoy
$22.00 Add to cartFor the Love of It traces the lives of Roma and Dave McCoy-visionary founders of world-renowned Mammoth Mountain Ski Area-from their singular childhoods through their eventual building of the first ch… [more below]
- Author: Morning, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1734513306
- Language: English
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Butta: The First 15 Years
$17.95 Add to cartThis book is a memoir of my first fifteen years in the Wingmen Motorcycle Club. From my hang-around time to becoming the national president. It is an account of my good times and bad times in the club
- Author: Mazza, Joey Butta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Isle of Hope
$17.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 195645232X
- Language: English
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Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State
$45.99 Read moreThis standard textbook on Michigan history covers the entire scope of the Wolverine State’s historical record — from when humankind first arrived in the area around 9,000 B.C. up to 1995. This third… [more below]
- Author: Dunbar, Willis F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 781
- Publish Date: September 05 1995
- ISBN10: 0802870554
- Language: English
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Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race
$16.95 Read more“Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmer’s memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseverance–and a classic underdog tale.” —Entertainment Weekly
At the age o- Author: Prior-Palmer, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1948226987
- Language: English
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The Man Who Quit Money
$18.00 Add to cartGrand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival
Mark Sundeen’s new book, The Unsettlers, is coming in January 2017 from Riverhead Books In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollar- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1594485690
- Language: English
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Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure
$22.00 Add to cart“It’s really quite good.” – Elon Musk
Twelve Against the Gods was an instant bestseller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author William Bolitho details the lives o- Author: Bolitho, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1635765390
- Language: English
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Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847
$29.95 Add to cartAfter the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Levi Scott and his youngest surviving son left Iowa for Oregon. Their overland journey–rife with quarrels, stolen horses, arduous river fords, con ar
- Author: Scott, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223334
- Language: English
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Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
$16.00 Add to cartEcologist Anne LaBastille created the life that many people dream about. When she and her husband divorced, she needed a place to live. Through luck and perseverance, she found the ideal spot: a 20-ac… [more below]
- Author: Labastille, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 1991
- ISBN10: 0140153349
- Language: English
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David Thomson: First Yankee
$12.00 Add to cartA man of many talents, Thomson was a builder, an explorer, a businessman and an apothecary. In 1620, when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Thomson had already made numerous trips to the coast of
- Author: Newall, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1950381323
- Language: English
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Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
$19.95 Add to cartTupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship’s translator. Lauded by Europeans as an “extraordinary genius,” Tupaia was a star navigator
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0995130906
- Language: English
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The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Nebraska Book Award
What’s it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do a- Author: Anderson, Clayton C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234731
- Language: English
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
$17.99 Add to cartAuthor Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering.
Steller was one of Europe’s f
- Author: Ford, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 088240394X
- Language: English
