Adventurers & Explorers
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Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness
$21.95 Add to cartThis inspirational memoir chronicles the six-decade quest of packer and outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elser to protect wild lands by bringing thousands of people deep into the mountains of Montana on horse… [more below]
- Author: Elser, Arnold Smoke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496231007
- Language: English
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Once Around Algonquin: An Epic Canoe Journey
$19.95 Add to cartKevin Callan’s Once Around Algonquin is an exciting tale of misadventure on the toughest route in Ontario’s most well-loved wilderness. While sharing his love of this paddling paradise, Callan details
- Author: Callan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1999528603
- Language: English
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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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The Art of Dowsing
$14.95 Add to cartThe Art of Dowsing: Separating Science from Superstition book is the first book ever written that comprehensively explains the physics involved in using the modern ball bearing dowsing rod with gaugin
- Author: Fercik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1662403925
- 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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Boone: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of Daniel Boone is the story of America–its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.
Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a fr- Series: Shannon Ravenel Books (Paperback)
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126157
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone around the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437363
- Language: English
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Trickster Travels
$30.99 Add to cartAn engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan–born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he trave
- Author: Davis, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809094355
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$19.99 Add to cartWith 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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Running Against the Tide: True Tales from the Stud of the Sea
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the star of Bravo’s hit reality show Below Deck comes Running Against the Tide, the “Stud of the Sea’s” first-ever memoir recounting his journey from landlocked Saginaw, Michigan to the high seas… [more below]
- Author: Captain Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1501184458
- 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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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0375708154
- 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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Wolfer: A Memoir
$25.00 Add to cartHIS PLAN WAS TO STAY IN IOWA, maybe get a job counting ducks, or do a little farming. But events conspired to fling Carter Niemeyer westward and straight into the jaws of wolves. From his early years
- Author: Niemeyer, Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0984811362
- Language: English
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Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks
$16.99 Add to cartA bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous and volatile American landscape. One year. One national park at a time.
This is it. No more California
- Author: Pennington, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039703
- Language: English
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Rites of Passage: The Legacy of Adventure Climbing in the Sierra Nevada
$34.99 Add to cartRites of Passage: The Legacy of Adventure Climbing in the Sierra Nevada
Rock climbing throughout the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California has been going about quietly for well over a century.
- Author: Joe, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218176013
- 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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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$27.99 Add to cartMaster historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author D- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1668003546
- Language: English
