Adventurers & Explorers
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Aquanaut: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
$18.95 Read moreThe enthralling inside story of the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand–told by the leader of the daring underwater rescue mission.
In July 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach disappeared into th- Author: Stanton, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363017
- Language: English
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Miles from Nowhere: A Round-The-World Bicycle Adventure
$18.95 Add to cartThis is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you’d like to read Barbara Savage’s two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the curr… [more below]
- Author: Austen Weaver, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1680510363
- Language: English
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River Master: John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
$16.95 Read moreIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological s… [more below]
- Author: Kuhne, Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1682685187
- Language: English
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The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
$16.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Spellbinding adventure from Canada’s most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remo- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0735241066
- Language: English
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The Long Trail: My Life in the West
$18.50 Read moreA Canadian icon on his longstanding love of the West and his life in “one of the last true cowboy countries on either side of the border.”
“I live on a ranch about six miles east of the town of Longvi- Author: Tyson, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0307359360
- Language: English
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Red Cloud and the Indian Trader: The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1871, JW Dear met Red Cloud, the leader of the Oglala, who at that time was probably the most powerful and respected Indian chief in America. For the next twelve years the two men liv
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn Dear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073907
- Language: English
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You Can’t Win
$24.95 Add to cartYou Can’t Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey’s Amok Press, featuring an introduction by
- Series: Tramp Lit
- Author: Black, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1936239612
- Language: English
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Beyond Possible: One Man, Fourteen Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime
$30.00 Read moreNepali climber Nims Purja is the first man ever to summit all fourteen of the world’s 8000 meter “Death Zone” peaks in less than seven months. His breakthrough timing beat the previous record of seven… [more below]
- Author: Purja, Nims
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 142622253X
- Language: English
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The Food Adventurers: How Around-The-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
$30.00 Read moreA delectable gastronomic expedition into the linked histories of global travel and global cuisine.
From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high s- Author: Bender, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147573
- Language: English
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Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks
$28.99 Read moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039711
- Language: English
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Endangered Species: Chronicles of the Life of a New England Fisherman and the F/V Ellen Diane
$24.95 Read moreIf David Goethel was a cat, he would be in the market for more lives. But David is a small boat fisherman, an endangered species, who works tirelessly for himself and others like him to survive. Follo
- Author: Goethel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1942155670
- Language: English
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Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies
$19.99 Read moreIn Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase… [more below]
- Author: Marty, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0771056702
- Language: English
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She Rides: Chasing Dreams Across California and Mexico
$17.95 Read moreThis deeply personal memoir of Alenka Vrecek’s 2,500-mile solo bikepacking pilgrimage along the spine of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada and into the hostile desert mountains and plains of Mexico’s Baj… [more below]
- Author: Vrecek, Alenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424569
- Language: English
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Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman’s Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
$26.00 Read more‘An amazing adventure… I was left in total awe’ – Lorraine Kelly
‘Brilliant’ – Mark Beaumont ‘A compelling account of a truly remarkable achievement’ – Tim Moore, travel writer 16 countries, 124 day- Author: Graham, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1399401068
- Language: English
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Torrents as Yet Unknown: Daring Whitewater Ventures Into the World’s Great River Gorges
$27.00 Read moreA dramatic narrative tour of 10 of the world’s most incredible whitewater adventures–spanning 5 continents and 40 years–guided by a legendary whitewater trailblazer
This fascinating history of darin- Author: Walker, Wickliffe W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 158642372X
- Language: English
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Hawaiki Rising: Haokaulea, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
$19.99 Add to cartAttuned to a world of natural signs–the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells–Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing
- Author: Low, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0824875249
- Language: English
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Annapurna: A Woman’s Place
$19.95 Read moreIn August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans–and the first women–to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world’s tenth … [more below]
- Author: Blum, Arlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1619026031
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World, Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down: The Graphic Novel
$20.00 Add to cart“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.” — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Before the Pole . . .
Before Antarctica . . .
Before everything
- Series: Worst Journey
- Author: Airriess, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1638991375
- Language: English
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
$19.99 Add to cart“As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness.” ― Sunday Times
Th
- Author: Bound, Mensun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063297418
- Language: English
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Survival Is Not Assured: The Life of Climber Jim Donini
$22.95 Read more“A bold and full account of a remarkable climbing life, exceptionally well told…”–Yvon Chouinard
Jim Donini has been an icon of American climbing for the past 50 years, pushing the boundaries of a- Author: Powter, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1680515373
- Language: English
