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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

By: Dugard, Martin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Crown: April 2004

Seller ID: 397774

ISBN: 0767910745

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With the utterance of a single line--"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"--a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure--defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement.

In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet o...
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Nunaga Ten Years of Eskimo Life

By: Duncan Pryde

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Walker and Company: January 1972

Seller ID: 319412

ISBN: 0802703690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Crown Archetype: October 2009

Seller ID: 381594

ISBN: 0767932501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of "No Shortcuts to the Top
"At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2-the worst single-event tragedy in the m...
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LIFE: The Greatest Adventures of All Time

By: Editors of Life

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Life: September 2001

Seller ID: 329153

ISBN: 1929049064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

LIFE: The Greatest Adventures of All Time

By: Editors of Life

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Life: September 2001

Seller ID: 336353

ISBN: 1929049064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Voyage and Travels Ancient and Modern - The Harvard Classics Series, Volume 33

By: Eliot, Charles W.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son: January 1910

Seller ID: 389696

ISBN: B0010CE6NY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Last Season (P.S.)

By: Eric Blehm

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2007

Seller ID: 370751

ISBN: 0060583010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada--mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.
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Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea

By: Eric Hansen

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: February 1992

Seller ID: 377414

ISBN: 067973855X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.

As he tells of the turbulent seas that stranded him on the island and of his efforts to retrieve his buried journals when he returned to Yemen ten years later, Hansen enthralls us with a portrait -- uncannily sympathetic and wildly offbeat -- of this forgotten corner of the Middle Ea...
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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: 350307

ISBN: 0452282942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage

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 bli...
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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: 377559

ISBN: 0452282942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage

The Polar Passion

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Little Brown: January 1967

Seller ID: 122743

ISBN: B001K2GRI6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Polar Passion

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Little Brown: January 1967

Seller ID: 242111

ISBN: B001K2GRI6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

River : One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea

By: Fletcher, Colin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage: May 1998

Seller ID: 392664

ISBN: 0375701826

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Details the author's six-month foot-and-raft journey from the source of the Colorado River in Wyomin
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33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners

By: Franklin, Jonathan

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Berkley: October 2011

Seller ID: 395694

ISBN: 0425246868

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010.

Franklin, with his renowned eye for detail and dialogue, captures the remarkable story of these men to reveal to the world how they used their native talents to survive against all odds in a savage environment.
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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 - VeryGood

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 incomple...
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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 - VeryGood

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 - VeryGood

A chronicle of recent successful attempts to salvage a ship that sank in 1857 carrying gold from the rich California mines follows a group of adventurers who took great risks to reap billions in sunken treasure.
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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 incredible story of one man's heroic battle against almost impossible odds, Alone tells of d'Aboville's mission to row across the Pacific Ocean. A gripping story not just of physical endurance but of mental and spiritual fortitude.--Publishers Weekly. Introduction by Paul Theroux. 24 photos, 22 in color. Map.
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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: 351615

ISBN: 155970246X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Jungle (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon

By: Ghinsberg, Yossi

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Skyhorse: October 2017

Seller ID: 397789

ISBN: 1510718613

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, ...
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