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Teewinot
Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range
Jack Turner
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Jack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear and...
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A Life Wild and Perilous
Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
Robert M. Utley
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Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West exted...
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Blue Latitudes
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Tony Horwitz
Picador
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across...
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Last of the Donkey Pilgrims
Kevin O'Hara
Forge Books
Kevin O’Hara’s journey of self-discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot—and with a...
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A Voyager Out
The Life of Mary Kingsley
Katherine Frank
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Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and...
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Three Women of Herat
A Memoir of Life, Love and Friendship in Afghanistan
Veronica Doubleday
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In the years before the communist coup and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Veronica Doubleday set up home in the ancient city of Herat with her husband,...
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Conquering the Impossible
My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
Mike Horn
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In August 2002, Mike Horn set out on a mission that bordered on the impossible: to travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the Arctic Circle - alone, against...
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The Sultan's Admiral
Barbarossa: Pirate and Empire Builder
Ernle Bradford
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In this definitive biography, Ernle Bradford has brilliantly recreated Barbarossa’s remarkable life alongside a vivid portrayal of the Ottoman and...
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Amelia Earhart
The Sky's No Limit
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Lori Van Pelt
Forge Books
Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) earned her pilot’s wings in her early twenties and became the best-known female aviator of her time—probably of all time. During her...
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Silk Roads
The Asian Adventures of Clara and André Malraux
Axel Madsen
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André and Clara Malraux had the world at their feet. Wealthy and carefree, their life was a bohemian idyll spent frequenting the hottest clubs and restaurants,...
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North by Northwestern
A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters
Captain Sig Hansen and Mark Sundeen
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
New York Times bestseller “A chronicle that reads like a collection of your crazy buddy's bar stories about his crazier old man.” –Outside Magazine The...
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The Devil and Mr. Casement
One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness
Jordan Goodman
Picador
In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread...
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The Climb
Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt
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In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded...
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Arctic Homestead
The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
Norma Cobb and Charles W. Sasser
St. Martin's Griffin
In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up...
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West with the Night
Beryl Markham
North Point Press
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
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Searching for African Prospects
Life as a Mining Engineer in Nigeria and Angola
Diane Chads
Radcliffe Press
Here is a unique picture of European mineral exploration in Africa and the larger than life character William Chads. He followed his father into the army,...
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In Search of Captain Cook
Exploring the Man through His Own Words
Daniel O'Sullivan
I.B. Tauris
An illuminating look at the life of a daring sea captain
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Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow
The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
Maria Coffey; Foreword by Tom Hornbein
St. Martin's Griffin
Without risk, say mountaineers, there would be none of the self-knowledge that comes from pushing life to its extremes. For them, perhaps, it is worth the...
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Heart Beguiling Araby
The English Romance with Arabia
Kathryn Tidrick
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
What is it about Arabia and her people that has exercised such a powerful allure on generations of English travellers and explorers? "A land whose name could...
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