Adventurers & Explorers
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Last of the Donkey Pilgrims
$20.99 Add to cartKevin O’Hara’s journey of self-discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot–and with a donkey and cart no less?
But Kevin had pr- Author: O’Hara, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 076530984X
- Language: English
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The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness
$29.95 Add to cartMeriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to desc
- Author: Jenkinson, Clay S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224160
- Language: English
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Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
$29.95 Read more“Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world’s highest peaks.”– Jon Krakauer… [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Bernadette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1680515780
- Language: English
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Cape Horn: The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without Port of Call
$16.50 Add to cartThis is the story of Bernard and Fran?ise Moitessier’s honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the “logical route,” because it w… [more below]
- Author: Moitessier, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574091549
- Language: English
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Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Dwayne W. Pickett details the life of William Hilton, his exploration of the Carolina coast and the founding of an iconic island.
Behind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Isla
- Author: Pickett, Dwayne W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141917
- Language: English
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The Mountain: My Time on Everest
$18.99 Add to cartIn national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a tr… [more below]
- Author: Viesturs, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1451694741
- Language: English
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
$18.99 Add to cartLearn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and “a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history’s most famous explorers…[with] infusio… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1451677588
- Language: English
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Sea Room
$28.99 Add to cartNicolson’s chronicle is a fine book . . . Readers will be duly awed by his delicately layered story. –The New York Times Book Review
In 1937, Adam Nicolson’s father answered a newspaper ad for a small- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074959
- Language: English
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Get Your Cow Out of My Kitchen!
$14.95 Add to cartGet your COW out of my kitchen will take you on an oft-times humorous journey discovering new creatures and how their amazing personalities captured the heart of a little red-haired girl. You will mee
- Author: Hudson, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637840306
- Language: English
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The Young Hemingway
$24.99 Add to cartMichael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway’s persona: his father’s self-destructive battl
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0393317765
- Language: English
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
$24.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unanswered–his journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to di… [more below]
- Author: Bawlf, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004596
- Language: English
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The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer
$19.99 Add to cart“Stunning and stirring.”
—Boston Globe
In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told throu
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061560952
- Language: English
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The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors, 10th Anniversary Edition
$21.95 Read more- Features a new “where are they now” section, updating readers on lives of expedition’s original climbers
- Fully updated and detailed resources based on the “Anti-Racism in the Outdoors” (ARITO) guide
- Author: Mills, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1680516809
- Language: English
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The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story Of A 23-Year-Old’s Summit Of Mt. Everest
$30.00 Add to cartIn 1996, a twenty-three-year-old soldier in the British Army was flying over an African desert on a routine parachute jump. He had a lot to look forward to-a long career ahead of him in the army, a be… [more below]
- Author: Grylls, Bear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1493040952
- Language: English
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Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures
$17.99 Add to cartWho is Marco Polo and why does his name sound so familiar? Yet why do most people seem to have no idea about who he is?
This book takes you eight centuries back in time to journey with one of the most
- Author: Towle, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 139632108X
- Language: English
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Conrad Weiser: Friend of Colonist and Mohawk
$49.95 Add to cartIf one man could be said to exemplify in his character the promise of America’s greatness, that man was Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania frontiersman of the Colonial period. This biography of one of the ke
- Author: Wallace, Paul A. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065339
- Language: English
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Heidi Across America: One Woman’s Journey on a Bicycle Through the Heartland
$17.95 Add to cartA memoir of homecoming – Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.
In the summer of 2010, Heidi- Author: Beierle, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0757324975
- Language: English
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Chariot of Fate
$16.95 Add to cartLife vanishing in the “rearview mirror” and friends’ questions “how did you meet your husband” inspire Sigrun to delve into a colorful past.
Her life was touched by a parade of interesting events and p
- Author: Norton, Sigrun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886541410
- Language: English
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Paddling with Spirits: A Solo Kayak Journey
$21.95 Add to cartInspired partly by her own spirit of adventure, and partly by the stories of her native coastal ancestors, Irene Skyriver celebrated her fortieth year of life with a solo kayak voyage, paddling from A
- Author: Skyriver, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0998701246
- Language: English
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810
$19.95 Add to cartGeorge Drouillard’s service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from ma… [more below]
- Author: Skarsten, M. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293097
- Language: English
