Adventurers & Explorers
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly dim… [more below]
- Author: Horn, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024904
- Language: English
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The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic
$16.95 Add to cartThe Long Way is Bernard Moitessier’s own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, a
- Series: Sheridan House Maritime Classics
- Author: Moitessier, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493042785
- Language: English
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
$20.00 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expedition
- Author: Pitzer, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982113359
- Language: English
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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler
$19.99 Add to cartHe was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Roberts, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0007161263
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
$18.00 Add to cartA rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.
Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had lef
- Author: Braverman, Blair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0062311573
- Language: English
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Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior’s Long Trail Home
$27.95 Add to cart“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.” Edward Abbey
In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edw
- Author: Peacock, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1952338042
- Language: English
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Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man Volume 23
$21.95 Add to cartMountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #23
- Author: Barbour, Barton H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141964
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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Gold Digger: Chasing the Mother Lode in a Man’s World
$23.95 Add to cartGold Rush fan favorite Tyler Mahoney shares the secret to being a successful woman in a man’s world in her debut memoir. . .
If you haven’t seen a Discovery Channel gold-hunting show, you might pictur- Author: Mahoney, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 3, 2023
- ISBN10: 1632280949
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: November 3, 2004
- ISBN10: 078688746X
- Language: English
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
$29.99 Read moreNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.
In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250274443
- Language: English
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Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
$30.00 Add to cartA life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild
At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many exp
- Author: Ridgeway, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 193834099X
- Language: English
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Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
$19.99 Read more“A layered inquisition and a reportorial force…a technicolor mystery…. In prose that moves like a clear river….Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story to its last
- Author: Rustad, Harley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062965972
- Language: English
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Forerunners to the Uncharted Amazon: Embracing a Stone Age Tribe
$21.95 Add to cartFew have ever known the honor and mystique of growing up in the virgin Amazon rainforest. In the late 1950s, Paul Johnson’s family of six chose to leave the comforts of Canada to disappear into stark
- Series: Rain Forest Memoirs Trilogy #1
- Author: Johnson, Paul Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: August 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1685179320
- Language: English
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Deep Waters: A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled
$17.95 Read moreAn intimate, uplifting story of a courageous marine biologist’s journey from the instant her healthy husband suffers a stroke, through Beth’s trials and tender moments as his medical advocate and conf… [more below]
- Author: Mathews, Beth Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424666
- Language: English
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Around the World on a Bicycle
$23.95 Add to cartThis classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle
- Author: Birchmore, Fred A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820357286
- Language: English
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Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
$28.99 Read more“Searching, captivating and miraculously honest. Davidson has a voice we want to travel with, and to know.”–Lisa Brennan-Jobs, New York Times bestselling author of Small Fry
A spellbinding memoir exp- Author: Davidson, Robyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1620401622
- Language: English
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More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
$27.95 Read moreAn intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world’s top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage.
As one of the world’s leading female professi- Author: Burhardt, Majka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363491
- Language: English
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who pro
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0140159940
- Language: English
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Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best
When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe cam
- Author: Woolever, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 4, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062909118
- Language: English
