Adventurers & Explorers
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
$21.99 Add to cartThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352435
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
$25.00 Add to cartIncorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man.
A St. Louis Post Dispat… [more below]- Author: Dearborn, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 052556361X
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
$32.95 Read moreBetween 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the
- Author: Nisbet, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0874222850
- Language: English
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Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride’s family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a te… [more below]
- Author: Sherr, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1476725772
- Language: English
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The Adventurer’s Son: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Destined to become an adventure classic.” —Anchorage Daily News
Hailed as “gripping” (New York Times) and “beautiful” (Washington Post), The Adventurer’s Son is Roman Dial’s extra
- Author: Dial, Roman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0062876619
- Language: English
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
$18.99 Add to cartIn the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0743400690
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West
$27.95 Add to cartMarty Ohlhaut loved the great outdoors, and he loved his family, but this time, the combination proved disastrous.
Cooped up inside due to long work hours, Marty was excited about taking off with his w
- Author: Ohlhaut, Marty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1954861109
- Language: English
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Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
$16.95 Read more2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin Awards
In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decisio
- Author: Sutherland, Audrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1938340752
- Language: English
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A harrowing, moving first-person account of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes–and one man’s quest to lead them all home–by N… [more below]
- Author: Parrado, Nando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 140009769X
- Language: English
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On the Wandering Paths
$19.95 Read moreA walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present–more than 425,000 copies sold in France
After a free-climbing a
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Tesson, Sylvain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02, 2022
- ISBN10: 1517912814
- Language: English
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The Push: A Climber’s Search for the Path
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan “The rarest of adventure reads:- Author: Caldwell, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0399562710
- Language: English
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The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi: My Journey Into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began
$19.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller! Journey with Kathie Lee Gifford and Messianic Rabbi Jason Sobel into Israel and explore the deep roots of the Christian faith.
As a lifelong student of Scripture,
- Author: Gifford, Kathie Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0785222235
- Language: English
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Normally Unusual
$19.95 Add to cartA stranger than fiction story (memoir) of a volunteer stuntman with adrenaline (and other) addictions. Includes natural disasters and many close calls, during his gravitational experimentations. A lif
- Author: Kitchen, Vince
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1959457209
- Language: English
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Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness
$21.95 Add to cartThis inspirational memoir chronicles the six-decade quest of packer and outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elser to protect wild lands by bringing thousands of people deep into the mountains of Montana on horse… [more below]
- Author: Elser, Arnold Smoke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496231007
- Language: English
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Once Around Algonquin: An Epic Canoe Journey
$19.95 Add to cartKevin Callan’s Once Around Algonquin is an exciting tale of misadventure on the toughest route in Ontario’s most well-loved wilderness. While sharing his love of this paddling paradise, Callan details
- Author: Callan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1999528603
- Language: English
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness
$18.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for The Last Alaskans–the hit documentary series now on the Discovery+–James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 074345314X
- Language: English
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The Art of Dowsing
$14.95 Add to cartThe Art of Dowsing: Separating Science from Superstition book is the first book ever written that comprehensively explains the physics involved in using the modern ball bearing dowsing rod with gaugin
- Author: Fercik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1662403925
- Language: English
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Another Bend in the River, the Happy Camper’s Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartOutdoor author and educator Kevin Callan (aka The Happy Camper) has always suffered from high anxiety. Where did Kevin go to escape this anxiety? He didn’t find relief on a psychologist’s couch or pop
- Author: Callan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 199952862X
- Language: English
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Boone: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of Daniel Boone is the story of America–its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.
Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a fr- Series: Shannon Ravenel Books (Paperback)
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126157
- Language: English
