Adventurers & Explorers
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Sailing Alone around the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Slocum, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437363
- Language: English
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Trickster Travels
$30.99 Add to cartAn engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan–born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he trave
- Author: Davis, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809094355
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$19.99 Read moreWith nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a sing… [more below]
- Author: Clark, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 142621717X
- Language: English
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Running Against the Tide: True Tales from the Stud of the Sea
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the star of Bravo’s hit reality show Below Deck comes Running Against the Tide, the “Stud of the Sea’s” first-ever memoir recounting his journey from landlocked Saginaw, Michigan to the high seas… [more below]
- Author: Captain Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1501184458
- Language: English
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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “masterful chronicle” of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets.
Featuring a history and description of the maj
- Author: Carlsen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0062407406
- Language: English
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
$17.99 Add to cartOn January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself p
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347788
- Language: English
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0375708154
- Language: English
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Dersu the Trapper
$18.00 Add to cartVladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological,… [more below]
- Series: Recovered Classics
- Author: Arseniev, V. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 351
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0929701496
- Language: English
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
$17.99 Add to cartSpaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.
When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie C- Author: Teitel, Amy Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1538716054
- Language: English
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Wolfer: A Memoir
$25.00 Add to cartHIS PLAN WAS TO STAY IN IOWA, maybe get a job counting ducks, or do a little farming. But events conspired to fling Carter Niemeyer westward and straight into the jaws of wolves. From his early years
- Author: Niemeyer, Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0984811362
- Language: English
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Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks
$16.99 Add to cartA bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous and volatile American landscape. One year. One national park at a time.
This is it. No more California
- Author: Pennington, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039703
- Language: English
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Rites of Passage: The Legacy of Adventure Climbing in the Sierra Nevada
$34.99 Add to cartRites of Passage: The Legacy of Adventure Climbing in the Sierra Nevada
Rock climbing throughout the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California has been going about quietly for well over a century.
- Author: Joe, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218176013
- Language: English
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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land
$16.95 Add to cartIn this New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatem… [more below]
- Author: ?lvarez, No?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1646220536
- Language: English
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
$27.99 Add to cartMaster historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author D- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1668003546
- Language: English
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and sco
- Series: American Grit #0
- Author: Marshall, David Weston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682684423
- Language: English
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One Man’s West
$24.95 Add to cartThe American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers s… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 080326030X
- Language: English
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir’s Greatest Adventures
$12.99 Add to cartHere is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir’s most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosem… [more below]
- Author: Stetson, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1930238371
- Language: English
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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
$19.99 Add to cart“In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will… [more below]
- Author: Caesar, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1501143387
- Language: English
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Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey from My Doorstep to the Arctic
$26.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history. Looking out his porch window one spring- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0735241015
- Language: English
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
$30.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling au… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0525619321
- Language: English
