Adventurers & Explorers
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
$27.00 Add to cartAs the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1400078806
- Language: English
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Atomic Pilgrim: How Walking Thousands of Miles for Peace Led to Uncovering Some of America’s Darkest Nuclear Secrets
$19.95 Add to cartJames Patrick Thomas’s path toward nuclear disarmament began on Good Friday, 1982, when he and his fellow peace pilgrims started walking away from the Trident Nuclear Submarine Base near Seattle. Thei
- Author: Thomas, James Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: July 16 2025
- ISBN10: 195760736X
- Language: English
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Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World
$24.00 Add to cartThe captivating story of an ordinary bartender turned humanitarian who’s changing the world through clean water.
Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. A small-town bartender, Doc loved his Harley,- Author: Hendley, Doc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 1583335072
- Language: English
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The Barber, the Astronaut, and the Golf Ball
$22.95 Read moreIn 1971, famed astronaut Alan Shepard returned from the moon and went to get a haircut. Before settling into the barber’s chair in Webster, Texas, near NASA’s Mission Control, Shepard gave his longtim… [more below]
- Author: Radnofsky, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989120345
- Language: English
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Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range
$21.95 Add to cartNational Outdoor Book Award Winner in Journeys
“Engelhard locates life–biological, cultural, and geophysical–in
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Nature
Nautilus Book Award Winner- Author: Engelhard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1680516787
- Language: English
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Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail
$23.95 Add to cart“Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows.” -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing Water
Three
- Author: Griffin, Joan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1685132812
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
$34.00 Add to cartA “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competitio… [more below]
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0316497002
- Language: English
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Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World
$29.99 Add to cart“An important book that will transform how we think about being human. … that will inspire hope.”–Jane Goodall
How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that grounds us and energizes us when so
- Author: Foster, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0063289024
- Language: English
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After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice
$32.00 Add to cartThe Norwegian explorer, philosopher and acclaimed writer chronicles his historic 58-day journey to the North Pole on skis in this thought-provoking memoir that is also a profound meditation about natu
- Author: Kagge, Erling
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 006342178X
- Language: English
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The World Walk: 7 Years. 28,000 Miles. 6 Continents. a Grand Meditation, One Step at a Time.
$18.00 Read moreFor fans of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms, the invigorating true story of a man and his dog who circled the globe on foot.
“Gripping . . . A delightful compani- Author: Turcich, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1510783725
- Language: English
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My Alaska: Stories of the Lost Coast
$15.95 Add to cartThe Lost Coast of Alaska is the central point of this adventure storybook. All the stories are true, firsthand accounts of the author, from the stunning views, diverse wildlife, and harrowing tales of
- Author: Dahlstrom, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894859996
- Language: English
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming … [more below]
- Author: Cockrell, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1982190469
- Language: English
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Enterprising Young Men: The California Gold Rush Memoir of Missourian Robert Mason Clark
$25.00 Add to cartMisssourian Robert Mason Clark was twenty-one when he left the lush prairies and bluffs of Marion County and its biggest city, Palmyra. Along with six other Northeast Missouri men–his brother Sam, Bi
- Author: Clark, Marsha K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330606726
- Language: English
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The Roast Penguin Chronicles: Hoosh, Scurvy Days, Sleeping with Vegetables, and Other Adventures in Antarctic Cuisine
$23.99 Add to cartRoast Penguin Chronicles is a savory, eclectic stew, unlike anything ever written about Antarctica. With echoes of Anthony Bourdain and characters painted with a Monty Pythonesque brush, it explores t
- Author: Anthony, Jason C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991456333
- Language: English
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William Trent: Factor of Ambition
$34.95 Add to cartOn December 1st, 1784, along a cold and wintry Fourth Street in Philadelphia, Major William Trent sputtered his last breath surrounded by friends and family and soon became forgotten in history.
The so
- Author: Cherry, Jason A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888191859
- Language: English
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Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now
$28.00 Add to cartDiscover Florida’s unique places across
How has
time through writings from history
Florida’s land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and
what remains only in memory? In Tracing
Flo- Series: Co-Published with Florida Humanities
- Author: Poole, Leslie Kemp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0813080479
- Language: English
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Beyond Everest: One Sherpa’s Summit and Hope for Nepal
$15.99 Add to cartOne small man, one giant mountain: a Sherpa’s quest to create a better future, one perilous step at a time.
Every success story begins with a single step in the right direction. Pem Dorjee Sherpa’s jou
- Author: Richardson, Corinne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1961624850
- Language: English
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A Place Among Giants: 22 Seasons at Denali Basecamp
$33.33 Add to cartTwenty two years of love, triumph, and tragedy on North America’s tallest mountain.
Lisa Roderick had already forged an unlikely path, from growing up on a farm in Connecticut to driving the Alaska Hig
- Author: Roderick, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962603067
- Language: English
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Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali
$28.00 Add to cartThe gripping story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970
Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an- Author: Randall, Cassidy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1419771531
- Language: English
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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
$17.95 Add to cartOn an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf
- Author: Shattuck, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030825
- Language: English
