Adventurers & Explorers
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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story
$18.95 Read moreNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded tog- Author: Mikkelsen, Ejnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423347
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah dese… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0307591778
- Language: English
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Northern Lights: A History of the Arctic Scots
$32.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable–yet often overlooked or misidentified–Scottish contribution to Arctic explora… [more below]
- Author: Cowan, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362703
- Language: English
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The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
$19.99 Read moreOne of Atlas & Boots’ Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021
A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest–and a return to reach the summit.
On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount- Author: Davidson, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250836751
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Fell to Shore: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald
$19.95 Add to cartBorn at sea aboard his father’s hand-built sailboat and raised barefoot on her wood decks, Thomas Thor Tangvald’s oceanic childhood was full of beauty and wonder-but was also scarred by horrific trage
- Author: Doane, Charles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1957607068
- Language: English
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Into the Wild
$32.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was fou… [more below]
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 1996
- ISBN10: 067942850X
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
$21.99 Add to cartThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352435
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
$25.00 Add to cartIncorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man.
A St. Louis Post Dispat… [more below]- Author: Dearborn, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 052556361X
- Language: English
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Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West
$27.95 Add to cartMarty Ohlhaut loved the great outdoors, and he loved his family, but this time, the combination proved disastrous.
Cooped up inside due to long work hours, Marty was excited about taking off with his w
- Author: Ohlhaut, Marty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954861109
- Language: English
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A harrowing, moving first-person account of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes–and one man’s quest to lead them all home–by N… [more below]
- Author: Parrado, Nando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 140009769X
- Language: English
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On the Wandering Paths
$19.95 Read moreA walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present–more than 425,000 copies sold in France
After a free-climbing a
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Tesson, Sylvain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 1517912814
- Language: English
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The Push: A Climber’s Search for the Path
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan “The rarest of adventure reads:- Author: Caldwell, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0399562710
- Language: English
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The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi: My Journey Into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began
$19.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller! Journey with Kathie Lee Gifford and Messianic Rabbi Jason Sobel into Israel and explore the deep roots of the Christian faith.
As a lifelong student of Scripture,
- Author: Gifford, Kathie Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0785222235
- Language: English
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Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness
$21.95 Add to cartThis inspirational memoir chronicles the six-decade quest of packer and outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elser to protect wild lands by bringing thousands of people deep into the mountains of Montana on horse… [more below]
- Author: Elser, Arnold Smoke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496231007
- Language: English
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness
$18.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for The Last Alaskans–the hit documentary series now on the Discovery+–James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 074345314X
- Language: English
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Another Bend in the River, the Happy Camper’s Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartOutdoor author and educator Kevin Callan (aka The Happy Camper) has always suffered from high anxiety. Where did Kevin go to escape this anxiety? He didn’t find relief on a psychologist’s couch or pop
- Author: Callan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 199952862X
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$19.99 Read moreWith nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a sing… [more below]
- Author: Clark, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 142621717X
- Language: English
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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “masterful chronicle” of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets.
Featuring a history and description of the maj
- Author: Carlsen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0062407406
- Language: English
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
$17.99 Add to cartOn January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself p
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347788
- Language: English
