Adventurers & Explorers
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The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1930, four decades after the surrender of Geronimo, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south in search of a rumored band of “wild” Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Goodwin’s journals chronicling h… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Grenville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803271026
- Language: English
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Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
$29.95 Add to cartIn October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after… [more below]
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Eisele, Donn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803262833
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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The Man Who Would Be King
$25.99 Add to cartThe Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling’s classic tale and a John Huston movie
In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an ele- Author: Ben, MacIntyre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529574
- Language: English
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The Last Ivory Hunter
$34.99 Add to cartA chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson, a grand tale of African adventure by renowned hunting author P
- Author: Capstick, Peter Hathaway
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0312000480
- Language: English
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Survive the Savage Sea: Sheridan House Maritime Classics
$16.95 Add to cartAfter their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only … [more below]
- Series: Sheridan House Maritime Classics
- Author: Robertson, Dougal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493049380
- Language: English
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As Long as It’s Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
$18.95 Read moreTo anyone interested in small-boat cruising and voyaging, the names Lin and Larry Pardey need no introduction. As world-girdling sailors who roamed the planet on a pair of small, engineless boats that… [more below]
- Author: McCormick, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1929214987
- Language: English
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West with the Night
$19.99 Add to cartMarkham is often described as “the first person” to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, … [more below]
- Author: Markham, Beryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964589
- Language: English
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John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder
$32.95 Read moreJohn Mullan’s celebrated construction project–a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers–established the West Point graduate as an accomplished road builder. After completing th
- Author: Petersen, Keith C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0874223210
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
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A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys Into Nature
$26.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times.
As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is o- Author: Ekelund, Torbj?rn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1771645121
- Language: English
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Corky Carroll – Not Done Yet: An epic journey of the planet’s first professional surfer.
$19.95 Add to cartCome along for the ride of a lifetime. Kick back and enjoy, while Corky takes you along in his travels across the globe and shares, in his unique flair for telling a good story, about his storied, and
- Author: Carroll, Corky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0578624710
- Language: English
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That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America’s Public Lands
$14.95 Add to cartFrom prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes–America’s public lands.
Every American is a publ
- Author: Kenyon, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1542043069
- Language: English
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The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery
$22.95 Add to cartIn this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier–a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, … [more below]
- Author: Ekelund, Torbjorn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1771645091
- Language: English
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Wild Heart: A True Story of Hippies, Healers, and Harleys
$18.95 Add to cartFor Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr, a road is only worth traveling if it comes with some unexpected turns.
In her midfifties, Dr. Stacey Kerr was diagnosed with osteoporosis and told to play it safe. Instead, … [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Stacey Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1959411306
- Language: English
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Born 150 Years Too Late: The Musings of a Modern Wilderness Junkie
$22.95 Add to cartThis book about nature and the environment is told by someone who prefers to approach the wilderness the old-fashioned way. Prepare for an armchair journey into the deserts and mountains of Utah and A
- Author: York, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1632935449
- Language: English
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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
$19.99 Add to cartIt started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor — acclaimed actor and self-confessed bike nut — noticed that it was possible to ride all … [more below]
- Author: McGregor, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743499344
- Language: English
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This Much Country
$21.99 Add to cartA memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod.
In 2009, aft… [more below]- Author: Knight Pace, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1538762382
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$11.95 Add to cart‘It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ’tis not best that you seem too learned.”‘
Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiograp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198820712
- Language: English
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No Way Down
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ru
- Author: Bowley, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834793
- Language: English
