Adventurers & Explorers
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Curiosity: And Its Twelve Rules for Life
$29.99 Read moreCuriosity is the instinct that prompts us to act, and a book about curiosity should tell us how to live. This is the first to do so, with its twelve rules for life.
While a fatal sin in Eden, curiosit- Author: F. H., Buckley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1641771844
- Language: English
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Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
$39.95 Read more2023 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Classics
“Not only did Hornbein play a crucial role in one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in the history of mountaineering, his account of the fe- Author: Hornbein, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1594857075
- Language: English
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Colorado Frontiersmen: Forts, Fights and Legacies
$23.99 Read moreEarly Icons and Landmarks As western migration came to the Colorado frontier, forts were established to protect the settlers. These forts were intertwined with the lives of the frontiersmen. Scout Tho… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Wommack, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153656
- Language: English
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Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle’a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
$32.99 Read moreAttuned to a world of natural signs–the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells–Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing
- Author: Low, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0824877357
- Language: English
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Tracking the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Skier Doug Coombs
$21.95 Read more“Doug Coombs had a huge impact on my life; much of my overall approach to mountains comes from his example. I am so grateful that, thanks to author Rob Cocuzzo, I now have the complete story of what … [more below]
- Author: Cocuzzo, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1680510444
- Language: English
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Conquistadors of the Useless
$21.95 Read more“If my library was to somehow catch fire and I could only save one book, the long out of print Conquistadors of the Useless, by Lionel Terray, would be it.” — Explore magazine
“The finest mountaine- Author: Terray, Lionel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1594851115
- Language: English
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Farthest North: The Greatest Arctic Adventure Story
$21.95 Read moreIn 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures and drift to the North Pole as a scient… [more below]
- Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1783342455
- Language: English
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The Seventymile Kid: The Lost Legacy of Harry Karstens and the First Ascent of Mount McKinley
$19.95 Read more* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinley–setting the record straight
* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley’s first ascent
* Features arc… [more below]- Author: Walker, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1594857296
- Language: English
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Heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“Follow author John Fraley as he traces the lives and times of past and present heroes of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, from old-timers like Joe Murphy, to Smoke Elser, and on to the present. Over the … [more below]
- Author: Fraley, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1560377747
- Language: English
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Aquanaut: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
$18.95 Read moreThe enthralling inside story of the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand–told by the leader of the daring underwater rescue mission.
In July 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach disappeared into th- Author: Stanton, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363017
- Language: English
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Miles from Nowhere: A Round-The-World Bicycle Adventure
$18.95 Add to cartThis is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you’d like to read Barbara Savage’s two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the curr… [more below]
- Author: Austen Weaver, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1680510363
- Language: English
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River Master: John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological s… [more below]
- Author: Kuhne, Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1682685187
- Language: English
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The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
$16.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Spellbinding adventure from Canada’s most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remo- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0735241066
- Language: English
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The Long Trail: My Life in the West
$18.50 Read moreA Canadian icon on his longstanding love of the West and his life in “one of the last true cowboy countries on either side of the border.”
“I live on a ranch about six miles east of the town of Longvi- Author: Tyson, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0307359360
- Language: English
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Red Cloud and the Indian Trader: The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1871, JW Dear met Red Cloud, the leader of the Oglala, who at that time was probably the most powerful and respected Indian chief in America. For the next twelve years the two men liv
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn Dear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073907
- Language: English
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You Can’t Win
$19.95 Add to cartYou Can’t Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey’s Amok Press, featuring an introduction by
- Series: Tramp Lit
- Author: Black, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1936239612
- Language: English
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Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime
$30.00 Read moreNepali climber Nims Purja is the first man ever to summit all fourteen of the world’s 8000 meter “Death Zone” peaks in less than seven months. His breakthrough timing beat the previous record of seven… [more below]
- Author: Purja, Nims
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 142622253X
- Language: English
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The Food Adventurers: How Around-The-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
$30.00 Read moreA delectable gastronomic expedition into the linked histories of global travel and global cuisine.
From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high s- Author: Bender, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147573
- Language: English
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Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks
$28.99 Read moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039711
- Language: English
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Endangered Species: Chronicles of the Life of a New England Fisherman and the F/V Ellen Diane
$24.95 Read moreIf David Goethel was a cat, he would be in the market for more lives. But David is a small boat fisherman, an endangered species, who works tirelessly for himself and others like him to survive. Follo
- Author: Goethel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1942155670
- Language: English
