Adventurers & Explorers
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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 Add to cartA 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 Read moreAfter 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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Today’s The Day! The Mel Fisher Story
$24.95 Add to cartMel Fisher spent over 8,000 days searching to find the $400 million treasure of gold, silver, and rare artifacts from the richest Spanish shipwreck ever recovered, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, but it
- Author: Tucker, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1899694021
- 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
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have d
- Author: Heinerth, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062691554
- Language: English
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The Last American Man
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings t- Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002836
- Language: English
