Adventurers & Explorers
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
$18.99 Add to cartIn striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn
- Author: Gunn Allen, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060730609
- Language: English
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
$25.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg.
In 1611, the merchants of London’s East India Company received a mysterious lett- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778255
- Language: English
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
$19.99 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 127 HOURS
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told–Aron Ralston’s searing account of his six days trapped in one- Author: Ralston, Aron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30, 2005
- ISBN10: 074349282X
- Language: English
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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
$18.99 Add to cart“Unlike Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure’s true story of a woman and the sea and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. . . . If you want to be inspired, read this book
- Author: McClure, Tori Murden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0061718874
- Language: English
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True Tales: The Forgotten History of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$29.95 Add to cartWhat Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.?
The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough
- Author: Classen, Mikel B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996362
- Language: English
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High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband
$19.99 Add to cartRick Husband wanted to be an astronaut since his fourth birthday, but it wasn’t always for the right reasons. Initially, he thought it would be neat . . . cool . . . a fun thing to do. It wasn’t until
- Author: Husband, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0785260684
- Language: English
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Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof
$19.95 Add to cartTen Feet Tall and Bulletproof is a story of classic Alaska, in the village where the Iditarod began. It features the courageous mushers who broke trail when the Great Race was only a rough trapline ex
- Author: Ferguson, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1942078463
- Language: English
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Born to Fly: The inspiring Story of an Australian Teenagers Record-Breaking Flight Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartAt age 19 Ryan Campbell CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE SOLO IN A SINGLE ENGINE AIRCRAFT
When Ryan Campbell was six, he fell in love with airplanes. Inspired by his first flight and his uncle and grandfather
- Author: Campbell, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1734382104
- Language: English
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Dear Mad’m
$18.95 Add to cartDear Mad’m is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountain
- Series: Women of the West
- Author: Patterson, Stella Walthall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: July 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0879611316
- Language: English
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South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
$35.00 Add to cartExperience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0760364826
- Language: English
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Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
$19.00 Read more“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer wh… [more below]
- Author: Barbarisi, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0525566112
- Language: English
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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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Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
$22.00 Add to cartA breathtaking and lavishly illustrated autobiography in essays on Anatoli Boukreev, the late world-famous mountaineer and author of The Climb.
When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on- Author: Boukreev, Anatoli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 20 2002
- ISBN10: 031229137X
- Language: English
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
$20.00 Add to cartVolume two in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu.
Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell’s d- Author: Durrell, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004405
- Language: English
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
$21.00 Read moreA true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and,- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02, 2015
- ISBN10: 1250069289
- 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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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
$19.95 Add to cartWell illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers’ appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ‘epic wanderer.’ —Choice
- Author: Jenish, D’Arcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224524
- Language: English
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Limits of the Known
$16.95 Add to cartDavid Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity’s–and his own–relationship to exploration and extreme
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356590
- Language: English
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Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high lan… [more below]
- Series: Landscapes
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0375714065
- Language: English
