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Teewinot

Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range

Jack Turner St. Martin's Griffin

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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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	A Life Wild and Perilous Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific Robert M. Utley A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book 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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Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Nonfiction

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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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Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	A Voyager Out The Life of Mary Kingsley Katherine Frank Tauris Parke Paperbacks 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...

Trade Paperback : $20.95 Buy	Three Women of Herat A Memoir of Life, Love and Friendship in Afghanistan Veronica Doubleday Tauris Parke Paperbacks 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,...

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	Conquering the Impossible My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle Mike Horn St. Martin's Griffin 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...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Sultan's Admiral Barbarossa: Pirate and Empire Builder Ernle Bradford Tauris Parke Paperbacks 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

American Heroes (#2 of 6)

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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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Silk Roads The Asian Adventures of Clara and André Malraux Axel Madsen Tauris Parke Paperbacks 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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Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	The Climb Tragic Ambitions on Everest Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt St. Martin's Griffin 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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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	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.

Hardcover : $56.00 Buy	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,...

Hardcover : $37.00 Buy	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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National Outdoor Book Awards - Winner - Outdoor Literature

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	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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