Adventurers & Explorers
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A Sailor, a Chicken, an Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique
$27.95 Add to cart“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”-BOOKLIST
A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerfu- Author: Soudée, Guirec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1771647043
- Language: English
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Badges Bears and Eagles
$16.95 Add to cartOver his thirty-year career as a wildlife protection officer for the California Department of Fish and Game, Steve Callan and his longtime working partner, Dave Szody, conducted some of the most fasci
- Author: Callan, Steven T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1603811583
- Language: English
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A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston
$19.95 Read moreSerendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was part of a team conducting scientific research that un… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0252084314
- Language: English
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A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America’s Wildest Peak
$17.95 Add to cartThe captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck–an Episcopal priest–and his team’s history-making summit of Denali.
In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the talle- Author: Dean, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363033
- Language: English
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El Abrazo de la Montaña: Una Historia de ValentÃa Y Redención / In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage (Spanish Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartSilvia Vásquez-Lavado Sumida en una depresión profunda y en una espiral autodestructiva de alcoholismo y sexo desmedido, Silvia decide volver a casa, dispuesta a enfrentarse a sus sombras más oscur… [more below]
- Author: Vásquez-Lavado, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 6073901259
- Language: Spanish
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Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
$28.00 Read moreA collection of stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei (1939-2016), the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.
New in paperback, Honouring High Places is a compe
- Author: Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1771605278
- Language: English
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Butta: The First 15 Years
$17.95 Add to cartThis book is a memoir of my first fifteen years in the Wingmen Motorcycle Club. From my hang-around time to becoming the national president. It is an account of my good times and bad times in the club
- Author: Mazza, Joey Butta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Isle of Hope
$17.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 195645232X
- Language: English
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Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race
$16.95 Read more“Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmer’s memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseverance–and a classic underdog tale.” —Entertainment Weekly
At the age o- Author: Prior-Palmer, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1948226987
- Language: English
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The Man Who Quit Money
$18.00 Add to cartGrand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival
Mark Sundeen’s new book, The Unsettlers, is coming in January 2017 from Riverhead Books In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollar- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1594485690
- Language: English
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Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847
$29.95 Add to cartAfter the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Levi Scott and his youngest surviving son left Iowa for Oregon. Their overland journey–rife with quarrels, stolen horses, arduous river fords, con ar
- Author: Scott, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0874223334
- Language: English
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Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
$19.95 Add to cartTupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship’s translator. Lauded by Europeans as an “extraordinary genius,” Tupaia was a star navigator
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0995130906
- Language: English
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
$17.99 Add to cartAuthor Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering.
Steller was one of Europe’s f
- Author: Ford, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 088240394X
- 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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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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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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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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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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American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
$26.99 Read moreImam Taymullah Abdur-Rahman’s incredible life story weaves the contemporary Black American experience with the Black Muslim American experience and emphasizes the role of interreligious dialogue in th
- Author: Abdur-Rahman, Taymullah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1506489281
- Language: English
