Adventurers & Explorers
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Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies
$19.99 Add to cartIn Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase… [more below]
- Author: Marty, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0771056702
- Language: English
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She Rides: Chasing Dreams Across California and Mexico
$17.95 Read moreThis deeply personal memoir of Alenka Vrecek’s 2,500-mile solo bikepacking pilgrimage along the spine of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada and into the hostile desert mountains and plains of Mexico’s Baj… [more below]
- Author: Vrecek, Alenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424569
- Language: English
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Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman’s Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
$26.00 Read more‘An amazing adventure… I was left in total awe’ – Lorraine Kelly
‘Brilliant’ – Mark Beaumont ‘A compelling account of a truly remarkable achievement’ – Tim Moore, travel writer 16 countries, 124 day- Author: Graham, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1399401068
- Language: English
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Torrents as Yet Unknown: Daring Whitewater Ventures Into the World’s Great River Gorges
$27.00 Read moreA dramatic narrative tour of 10 of the world’s most incredible whitewater adventures–spanning 5 continents and 40 years–guided by a legendary whitewater trailblazer
This fascinating history of darin- Author: Walker, Wickliffe W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 158642372X
- Language: English
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Hawaiki Rising: Haokaulea, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
$19.99 Add to cartAttuned 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0824875249
- Language: English
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Annapurna: A Woman’s Place
$19.95 Read moreIn August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans–and the first women–to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world’s tenth … [more below]
- Author: Blum, Arlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1619026031
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World, Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down: The Graphic Novel
$20.00 Add to cart“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.” — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Before the Pole . . .
Before Antarctica . . .
Before everything
- Series: Worst Journey
- Author: Airriess, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1638991375
- Language: English
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
$21.99 Add to cart“As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness.” ― Sunday Times
Th
- Author: Bound, Mensun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063297418
- Language: English
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Survival Is Not Assured: The Life of Climber Jim Donini
$22.95 Read more“A bold and full account of a remarkable climbing life, exceptionally well told…”–Yvon Chouinard
Jim Donini has been an icon of American climbing for the past 50 years, pushing the boundaries of a- Author: Powter, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1680515373
- Language: English
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Land Without a Continent: A Road Trip through Mexico and Central America
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Savino, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1959099728
- Language: English
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Into the Amazon: The Life of C?ndido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
$19.99 Read moreC?ndido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked hi
- Author: Rohter, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076208
- Language: English
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway
$18.00 Add to cartA vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history–and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163378
- Language: English
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A Long Walk South: Adventures and Tales from the Appalachian Trail
$18.95 Add to cartThere’s something to be said about being average. It’s not a bad thing, but it isn’t necessarily great either. After growing up in suburban New England, following the social norms and reluctantly fall
- Author: Herrick, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889605485
- Language: English
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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets
“An irresist- Author: Casey, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1984898868
- Language: English
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Inside: One Woman’s Journey Through the Inside Passage
$19.95 Add to cart2017 Washington State Book Award finalist, based on the strength of its literary merit and lasting importance!
The Ocean is calling me. This is my Journey.
With these words, in the spring of 2010, Susan
- Author: Conrad, Susan Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1736590669
- Language: English
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The Sugar Rush: A Memoir of Wild Dreams, Budding Bromance, and Making Maple Syrup
$28.95 Add to cartFilled with humor and raucous adventure, The Sugar Rush is the story of two friends with a sweet, golden, syrupy dream, set against the rugged New England wilderness.
Trying to shake off the emotions- Author: Gregg, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366814
- Language: English
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Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure
$22.95 Add to cartThe plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain and only successfully cl
- Author: Zieman, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1493078437
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: Extraordinary People, Quirky Places, and Curious Cuisine
$17.95 Read moreIn this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she’s visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to… [more below]
- Author: Gershowitz, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425573
- Language: English
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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world’s oldest Bible scroll in a desert cave east of the Dead Sea. With his phenomenal find, Shapira swiftl… [more below]
- Author: Tigay, Chanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0062206427
- Language: English
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Our Alaskan Winter
$19.95 Add to cartOur Alaskan Winter continues the story of husband and wife Bud and Connie Helmericks’ adventures in the Arctic. That winter they lived a nomadic life with the Eskimos, hunting caribou inland and then
- Author: Helmericks, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 194189044X
- Language: English
