Adventurers & Explorers
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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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Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State
$45.99 Read moreThis standard textbook on Michigan history covers the entire scope of the Wolverine State’s historical record — from when humankind first arrived in the area around 9,000 B.C. up to 1995. This third… [more below]
- Author: Dunbar, Willis F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 781
- Publish Date: September 05 1995
- ISBN10: 0802870554
- 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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Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure
$22.00 Add to cart“It’s really quite good.” – Elon Musk
Twelve Against the Gods was an instant bestseller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author William Bolitho details the lives o- Author: Bolitho, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1635765390
- 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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Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
$16.00 Add to cartEcologist Anne LaBastille created the life that many people dream about. When she and her husband divorced, she needed a place to live. Through luck and perseverance, she found the ideal spot: a 20-ac… [more below]
- Author: Labastille, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 1991
- ISBN10: 0140153349
- Language: English
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David Thomson: First Yankee
$12.00 Add to cartA man of many talents, Thomson was a builder, an explorer, a businessman and an apothecary. In 1620, when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Thomson had already made numerous trips to the coast of
- Author: Newall, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1950381323
- 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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The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Nebraska Book Award
What’s it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do a- Author: Anderson, Clayton C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234731
- 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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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
$18.99 Add to cartIn striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn
- Author: Gunn Allen, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060730609
- Language: English
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
$25.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel’s Nutmeg.
In 1611, the merchants of London’s East India Company received a mysterious lett- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778255
- 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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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
$18.99 Add to cart“Unlike Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Tori Murden McClure’s true story of a woman and the sea and a boat named American Pearl is one of victory. . . . If you want to be inspired, read this book
- Author: McClure, Tori Murden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0061718874
- 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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High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband
$19.99 Add to cartRick Husband wanted to be an astronaut since his fourth birthday, but it wasn’t always for the right reasons. Initially, he thought it would be neat . . . cool . . . a fun thing to do. It wasn’t until
- Author: Husband, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0785260684
- Language: English
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Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof
$19.95 Add to cartTen Feet Tall and Bulletproof is a story of classic Alaska, in the village where the Iditarod began. It features the courageous mushers who broke trail when the Great Race was only a rough trapline ex
- Author: Ferguson, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1942078463
- Language: English
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Born to Fly: The inspiring Story of an Australian Teenagers Record-Breaking Flight Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartAt age 19 Ryan Campbell CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE SOLO IN A SINGLE ENGINE AIRCRAFT
When Ryan Campbell was six, he fell in love with airplanes. Inspired by his first flight and his uncle and grandfather
- Author: Campbell, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1734382104
- Language: English
