Adventurers & Explorers
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Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
$26.95 Add to cartEqual parts memoir, adventure tale, and call to action, Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans has become a classic of environmental literature, at once the gripping adventure story of Earle’s three dec
- Series: Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series,
- Author: Earle, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1648432727
- Language: English
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My Alaska: Stories of the Lost Coast
$15.95 Add to cartThe Lost Coast of Alaska is the central point of this adventure storybook. All the stories are true, firsthand accounts of the author, from the stunning views, diverse wildlife, and harrowing tales of
- Author: Dahlstrom, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894859996
- Language: English
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming … [more below]
- Author: Cockrell, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1982190469
- Language: English
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Enterprising Young Men: The California Gold Rush Memoir of Missourian Robert Mason Clark
$25.00 Add to cartMisssourian Robert Mason Clark was twenty-one when he left the lush prairies and bluffs of Marion County and its biggest city, Palmyra. Along with six other Northeast Missouri men–his brother Sam, Bi
- Author: Clark, Marsha K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330606726
- Language: English
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Bellows, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 006322741X
- Language: English
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The Roast Penguin Chronicles: Hoosh, Scurvy Days, Sleeping with Vegetables, and Other Adventures in Antarctic Cuisine
$23.99 Add to cartRoast Penguin Chronicles is a savory, eclectic stew, unlike anything ever written about Antarctica. With echoes of Anthony Bourdain and characters painted with a Monty Pythonesque brush, it explores t
- Author: Anthony, Jason C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991456333
- Language: English
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Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World
$18.99 Add to cart“An important book that will transform how we think about being human. … that will inspire hope.”–Jane Goodall
How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that grounds us and energizes us when so
- Author: Foster, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0063289032
- Language: English
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The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers in this fascinating “blend of history, science, art, biography, and … [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Kenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007606
- Language: English
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Until I Came Home: A Sunset’s Journal
$13.95 Add to cartWhen a mid-20’s computer programmer seeks liberation by trading in his day job for a backpack and an unfamiliar roadmap to another culture in South America, he encounters not only beauty and inspirati… [more below]
- Author: Earle, Russell J., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991372909
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death … [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 525565701
- Language: English
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William Trent: Factor of Ambition
$34.95 Add to cartOn December 1st, 1784, along a cold and wintry Fourth Street in Philadelphia, Major William Trent sputtered his last breath surrounded by friends and family and soon became forgotten in history.
The so
- Author: Cherry, Jason A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888191859
- Language: English
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Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal
$34.99 Add to cart- Author: Marquis, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 163576968X
- Language: English
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Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now
$28.00 Add to cartDiscover Florida’s unique places across
How has
time through writings from history
Florida’s land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and
what remains only in memory? In Tracing
Flo- Series: Co-Published with Florida Humanities
- Author: Poole, Leslie Kemp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0813080479
- Language: English
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The Living Mountain
$18.00 Add to cartAn internationally bestselling classic on the power of the natural world–“part memoir, part field notebook, part lyrical meditation on nature and our relationship with it, evocative of Rachel Carson … [more below]
- Author: Shepherd, Nan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668066599
- Language: English
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Mapping the Adirondacks: Colvin, Blake, and the First True Survey of the Great Adirondack Wilderness
$36.95 Add to cartNew York State’s famous Adirondack landscape is immense, spanning over six million acres of public forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, and private lands. In full color featuring hundreds of detailed ma
- Author: Hogan, Thatcher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081586
- Language: English
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Beyond Everest: One Sherpa’s Summit and Hope for Nepal
$15.99 Add to cartOne small man, one giant mountain: a Sherpa’s quest to create a better future, one perilous step at a time.
Every success story begins with a single step in the right direction. Pem Dorjee Sherpa’s jou
- Author: Richardson, Corinne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1961624850
- Language: English
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
$19.99 Add to cart“Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White
- Author: Blehm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0062971417
- Language: English
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Mapping the Deep: Innovation, Exploration, and the Dive of a Lifetime
$26.99 Add to cartMapping the Deep takes you on an adventure into the depths of Challenger Deep, showcasing one woman’s perseverance and innovation needed for ocean exploration.
- Author: Wright, Dawn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1589487885
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$24.00 Add to cart“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, ” is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait o… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970314
- Language: English
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A Place Among Giants: 22 Seasons at Denali Basecamp
$33.33 Add to cartTwenty two years of love, triumph, and tragedy on North America’s tallest mountain.
Lisa Roderick had already forged an unlikely path, from growing up on a farm in Connecticut to driving the Alaska Hig
- Author: Roderick, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962603067
- Language: English
