Category: Adventure

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN WHO BECAME THE CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORER Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. In this candid, wry, and vastly entertaining autobiography, Hillary looks back on that 1953 landmark expedition, as well as his remarkable explorations in other exotic locales, from the South Pole to the Ganges. "View From The Summit" is the compelling life story of a New Zealand country boy who daydreamed of wild adventures; the pionee...
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Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story

By: Erik Weihenmayer

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Plume: March 2002

Seller ID: 293024

ISBN: 0452282942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him ...
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The Polar Passion

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Little Brown: January 1967

Seller ID: 122743

ISBN: B001K2GRI6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Polar Passion

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Little Brown: January 1967

Seller ID: 242111

ISBN: B001K2GRI6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2

By: Freddie Wilkinson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Berkley: July 2011

Seller ID: 328274

ISBN: 045123331X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster. "One Mountain Thousand Summits" reveals the true story of the K2 tragedy that claimed the lives of eleven men. Based on his numerous trips to Nepal and in-depth interviews he conducted with the survivors, the families of the lost climbers, and the Sherpa guides whose heroic efforts saved the lives of at least four climbers, Freddie Wilkinson's narrative uncovers what actually occurred on the mountain, while delivering a criticism of the mainstream press's incomplete coverage of...
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The Proving Ground : The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race

By: G. Bruce Knecht

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Little Brown and Company: June 2001

Seller ID: 336128

ISBN: 0316499552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On December 26, 1998, 115 sailboats set out on the annual race from Sydney to Hobart; only 43 would make it to the Tasmanian city, the race having turned into the worst modern sailing disaster since the 1979 Fastnet Race. Combining the best elements of The Perfect Storm (W.W. Norton, 1997) and Barbarians at the Gate (HarperCollins, 1990), "The Proving Ground" is a gripping narrative that follows the fates of three yachts, including Sayonara, owned by Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle. From the chilling explanation of how an Olympic sailor came to be catapulted from a yacht and why its crew ...
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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race

By: G. W. Hyatt

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Delta Mike Airfield, Inc.: January 2017

Seller ID: 252158

ISBN: B01N36MHSE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

By: Gary Kinder

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Vintage: April 1999

Seller ID: 176110

ISBN: 0375703373

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

"White knuckle reading...with generous portions of adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review" This enthralling true story of maritime tragedy and visionary science begins with a disaster to rival the sinking of the Titanic. In September 1857, the S.S. "Central America, " a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. More than 400 men--and 21 tons of gold--were lost. In the 1980s, a maverick engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find t...
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

By: Gary Kinder

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr: June 1998

Seller ID: 273659

ISBN: 0871134640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bestselling author Gary Kinder tells, for the first time, an extraordinary tale of history, maritime drama, heroic rescue, scientific ingenuity, and individual courage. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is the riveting true account of death, danger, and discovery on the high seas in the dramatic search for America's greatest lost treasure.In September 1857, the side-wheel streamer S.S. Central America, carrying five hundred passengers and tons of gold from the mountains of California, sank in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. Lost in legend for more than a century, the tragic story resurf...
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Alone: The Man Who Braved the Vast Pacific and Won

By: Gerard D'Aboville

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: June 1994

Seller ID: 337165

ISBN: 155970246X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

By: Gertner, Jon

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Random House: June 2019

Seller ID: 343182

ISBN: 0812996623

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters

By: Hansen, Sig,Sundeen, Mark

Price: $7.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: April 2011

Seller ID: 338913

ISBN: 0312672543

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"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 action of the hit Discovery Channel series DEADLIEST CATCH combines with the personal saga of a Norwegian family in this memoir adventure tale of commercial fishermen on the Bering SeaIn the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dre...
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Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge

By: Heacox, Kim

Price: $7.95

Publisher: National Geographic: November 1999

Seller ID: 339226

ISBN: 0792275365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In August 1914, as World War I began, Ernest Shackleton and a small band of explorers sailed for Antarctica aboard a ship called "Endurance." Few expeditions have been more aptly named -- and few leaders more courageous or inspirational. For two years, Shackleton and his men battled the elements in a saga that nearly defies description. Amazingly, not a man was lost...but their extraordinary feat was eclipsed by the Great War, and for three quarters of a century was all but forgotten. No longer: interest in Shackleton and Antarctica has never been greater. Yet even now, he is remembered for o...
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Cradle Of Gold

By: HEANEY, CHRISTOPHER

Price: $9.95

Publisher: SMP Palgrave Trade: July 2011

Seller ID: 338971

ISBN: 0230112048

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the Incas' greatest achievement. Tall, handsome, and sure of his destiny, Bingham believed that Machu Picchu was the Incas' final refuge, where they fled the Spanish Conquistadors. Bingham made Machu Picchu famous, and his dispatches from the jungle cast him as the swashbuckling hero romanticized today as a true Indiana Jones-like character. But his ...
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