Adventurers & Explorers
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The Last American Man
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings t- Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002836
- Language: English
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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story
$18.95 Read moreNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded tog- Author: Mikkelsen, Ejnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423347
- Language: English
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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
$17.99 Add to cartThe story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery–and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history
It bega- Author: Reséndez, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0063269066
- Language: English
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Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands
$17.95 Add to cartA dynamic examination that traces the lives of two of the most influential figures–and their dueling approaches–on America’s natural landscape.
John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American hist- Author: Clayton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1643136097
- Language: English
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
$21.99 Add to cartThe astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South.
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton- Author: Hamilton, Mary Mann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316341371
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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Hemingway: The Paris Years: The Paris Years (Revised)
$29.99 Add to cartThe 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer, whether he was sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318796
- Language: English
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Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story
$20.00 Add to cartDon Sheldon has been called ‘Alaska’s bush pilot among bush pilots’, but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-r
- Author: Greiner, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 1982
- ISBN10: 0312853378
- Language: English
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah dese… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0307591778
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
$21.99 Add to cart“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0062079611
- Language: English
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Northern Lights: A History of the Arctic Scots
$32.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable–yet often overlooked or misidentified–Scottish contribution to Arctic explora… [more below]
- Author: Cowan, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362703
- Language: English
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Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
$28.00 Add to cart“As sensitive and touching as it is urgent . . . [Wild Life is] a poignant exploration of the natural world.” –O, The Oprah Magazine
“Wild Life is the bushwacking, honest, and inspiring memoir I wish- Author: Wynn-Grant, Rae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1638930406
- Language: English
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The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
$19.99 Read moreOne of Atlas & Boots’ Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021
A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest–and a return to reach the summit.
On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount- Author: Davidson, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250836751
- Language: English
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Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker
$26.00 Add to cartIn this personal journey, ultra-light backpacker and sought-after speaker Glen Van Peski shares the life lessons he has learned through years of lightening his pack and helping others.
Adventures prov- Author: Van Peski, Glen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1637632894
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt
$29.95 Add to cartA breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt’s five-year expedition in South America–from the author of Magnificent Rebels and the New York Times bestse… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Wulf, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1524747378
- Language: English
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Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
$30.00 Add to cartThe explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drur
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285836
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Fell to Shore: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald
$19.95 Add to cartBorn at sea aboard his father’s hand-built sailboat and raised barefoot on her wood decks, Thomas Thor Tangvald’s oceanic childhood was full of beauty and wonder-but was also scarred by horrific trage
- Author: Doane, Charles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1957607068
- Language: English
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Into the Wild
$32.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was fou… [more below]
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 1996
- ISBN10: 067942850X
- Language: English
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Solo: What Running Across Mountains Taught Me about Life
$12.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery
Jenny Tough is an endurance athlete who’s best known for running and cycling in some of world’s most challenging events – achieving a- Author: Tough, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1783255927
- Language: English
