Adventurers & Explorers
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
$17.99 Add to cartSpaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.
When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie C- Author: Teitel, Amy Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1538716054
- Language: English
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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land
$16.95 Add to cartIn this New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatem… [more below]
- Author: ?lvarez, No?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1646220536
- Language: English
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and sco
- Series: American Grit #0
- Author: Marshall, David Weston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682684423
- Language: English
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One Man’s West
$24.95 Add to cartThe American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers s… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 080326030X
- Language: English
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures
$12.99 Add to cartHere is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir’s most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosem… [more below]
- Author: Stetson, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1930238371
- Language: English
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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
$19.99 Add to cart“In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will… [more below]
- Author: Caesar, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1501143387
- Language: English
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Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey from My Doorstep to the Arctic
$26.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history. Looking out his porch window one spring- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0735241015
- Language: English
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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler
$19.99 Add to cartHe was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Roberts, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0007161263
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
$18.00 Add to cartA rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.
Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had lef
- Author: Braverman, Blair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0062311573
- Language: English
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Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
$30.00 Add to cartA life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild
At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many exp
- Author: Ridgeway, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 193834099X
- Language: English
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Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
$19.99 Read more“A layered inquisition and a reportorial force…a technicolor mystery…. In prose that moves like a clear river….Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story to its last
- Author: Rustad, Harley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062965972
- Language: English
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Forerunners to the Uncharted Amazon: Embracing a Stone Age Tribe
$21.95 Add to cartFew have ever known the honor and mystique of growing up in the virgin Amazon rainforest. In the late 1950s, Paul Johnson’s family of six chose to leave the comforts of Canada to disappear into stark
- Series: Rain Forest Memoirs Trilogy #1
- Author: Johnson, Paul Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: August 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685179320
- Language: English
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More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
$27.95 Read moreAn intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world’s top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage.
As one of the world’s leading female professi- Author: Burhardt, Majka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363491
- Language: English
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who pro
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0140159940
- Language: English
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True Tales: The Forgotten History of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1615996354
- Language: English
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A Wild Idea
$32.00 Add to cartIn 1991, Doug Tompkins abandoned his comfortable life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south to a shack in Patagonia. Instead of the Golden Gate Bridge, Tompkins stared out the window at Volcano
- Author: Franklin, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0062964127
- Language: English
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The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
$21.99 Add to cartThe Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries–the Northwest… [more below]
- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22, 2013
- ISBN10: 0306822660
- Language: English
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The Last Season
$19.99 Add to cart“As Jon Krakauer did with Into the Wild, Blehm turns a missing-man riddle into an insightful meditation on wilderness and the personal demons and angels that propel us into it alone.” — Outside maga
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Blehm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0060583010
- Language: English
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All In! The Atlantic Standup Paddle Crossing: The Atlantic Standup Paddle Crossing – 93 Days Alone at Sea
$22.00 Add to cartIf you want to set big goals and achieve them this book will show you how to go “All In” and succeed at anything!
In 2017 Chris Bertish became the first person ever to stand-up paddleboard across any o
- Author: Bertish, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1991202717
- Language: English
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Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more–a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned less… [more below]
- Author: Underwood, Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593578449
- Language: English
