Adventurers & Explorers
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Dear Mad’m
$18.95 Add to cartDear Mad’m is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountain
- Series: Women of the West
- Author: Patterson, Stella Walthall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: July 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0879611316
- Language: English
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South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
$35.00 Add to cartExperience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0760364826
- Language: English
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Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
$19.00 Read more“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer wh… [more below]
- Author: Barbarisi, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0525566112
- Language: English
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The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
$19.00 Add to cartThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling advent… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476753873
- Language: English
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Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
$22.00 Add to cartA breathtaking and lavishly illustrated autobiography in essays on Anatoli Boukreev, the late world-famous mountaineer and author of The Climb.
When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on- Author: Boukreev, Anatoli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 20 2002
- ISBN10: 031229137X
- Language: English
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
$15.00 Add to cartVolume two in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu.
Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell’s d- Author: Durrell, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004405
- Language: English
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Today’s The Day! The Mel Fisher Story
$24.95 Add to cartMel Fisher spent over 8,000 days searching to find the $400 million treasure of gold, silver, and rare artifacts from the richest Spanish shipwreck ever recovered, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, but it
- Author: Tucker, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1899694021
- Language: English
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
$21.00 Read moreA true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and,- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02, 2015
- ISBN10: 1250069289
- Language: English
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Isle of Hope
$26.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1956452338
- Language: English
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Totch: A Life in the Everglades
$21.95 Add to cart“Totch Brown’s memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades–the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the United States–are inv
- Author: Brown, Loren G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 20 1993
- ISBN10: 0813012287
- Language: English
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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
$19.95 Add to cartWell illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers’ appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ‘epic wanderer.’ —Choice
- Author: Jenish, D’Arcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224524
- Language: English
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Limits of the Known
$16.95 Add to cartDavid Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity’s–and his own–relationship to exploration and extreme
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356590
- Language: English
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Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high lan… [more below]
- Series: Landscapes
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0375714065
- Language: English
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
$19.99 Add to cart“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the Wo
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062875361
- Language: English
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American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
$26.99 Read moreImam Taymullah Abdur-Rahman’s incredible life story weaves the contemporary Black American experience with the Black Muslim American experience and emphasizes the role of interreligious dialogue in th
- Author: Abdur-Rahman, Taymullah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1506489281
- Language: English
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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt
$27.00 Add to cartFrom longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have tried an
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0802126936
- Language: English
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have d
- Author: Heinerth, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062691554
- Language: English
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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt
$19.00 Add to cartUPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR
In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the gene- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0802148271
- Language: English
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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
$20.00 Add to cartTrue Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca.
This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after bein- Author: Ricca, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250846722
- Language: English
