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A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond

By: Jim Whittaker

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Mountaineers Books: September 1999

Seller ID: 336011

ISBN: 0898865409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of the twentieth century's great adventurers recounts his life and experiences, from being the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest to sailing around the world with his family.
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Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: December 1989

Seller ID: 288663

ISBN: 0060916540

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude."--The Times (London)

Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.

The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson ...
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Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

By: John Balzar

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: January 2000

Seller ID: 334804

ISBN: 0805059490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of Into the Wild, a story of daring and determination in one of nature's harshest, loneliest, and most beautiful places.
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is among the most challenging and dangerous of all the organized sporting events in the world. Every February, a handful of hardy souls sps over two weeks racing sleds pulled by fourteen dogs over 1,023 miles of frozen rivers, icy mountain passes, and spruce forests as big as entire states. It's not unusual for the temperature to drop to 40-below or for the night to be seventeen hours long.
Why would anyone...
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo: And Other East African Adventures

By: John Henry Patterson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing: February 2013

Seller ID: 312672

ISBN: 1620874067

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

When the British government undertook the construction of the Uganda Railway through East Africa in 1898, harsh criticism from the press, tremendous amounts of money spent, and rebelliousness of the workers turned out to be the least of the government's worries. Their biggest obstacle came in the form of two ravenous lions with a taste for human flesh, terrorizing the 35,000 laborers building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River.

After killing more than one hundred-thirty people over the course of nine months, the lions completely halted construction, as the workers were too afraid to con...
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The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk ... Adventures in the Chine Seas .. 1st Edition, HC, FINE.

By: John S. Sewall

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Lakeside Press: January 1995

Seller ID: 252255

ISBN: B0060YOKHY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics)

By: Joshua Slocum

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics: September 2005

Seller ID: 278859

ISBN: 1593083033

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics)

By: Joshua Slocum

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics: September 2005

Seller ID: 297086

ISBN: 1593083033

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Junger, Sebastian

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: June 2000

Seller ID: 338799

ISBN: 0393050327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Presents a vivid account of a history-making storm that hit the New England coast in October 1991 and the lives it changed, weaving together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and personal accounts.
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Junger, Sebastian

Price: $3.95

Publisher: HarperTorch: July 1998

Seller ID: 343837

ISBN: 006101351X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

October 1991. It was the perfect storm--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.
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Into the Wild

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Anchor: February 1997

Seller ID: 347135

ISBN: 0385486804

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a ...
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Anchor: April 1998

Seller ID: 349402

ISBN: 0385492081

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds...
"Into Thin Air" is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the W...
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Into the Wild

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Anchor: August 2007

Seller ID: 351390

ISBN: 0307387178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Villard Books: May 1997

Seller ID: 357471

ISBN: 0679457526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned th...
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Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau

By: Kurzman, Dan

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Pocket Books: May 1995

Seller ID: 348637

ISBN: 0671748742

Condition: Used - Good

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Lansing, Alfred

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishing: January 1986

Seller ID: 344160

ISBN: 0881841781

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Story of how twenty-eight men battled against almost insuperable odds to return to civilization after their ship sank near the South Pole.
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Danger Stalks The Land P

By: Larry Kaniut

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Griffin: November 1999

Seller ID: 330504

ISBN: 0312241208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye. Danger Stalks the Land relates gripping episodes of animal attacks, avalanches, aircraft disasters, fishing, hunting, and skiing accidents, and chronicles risky climbs and reckless mountaineering amid Alaska's fantastic peaks. Through exhaustive research and interviews, author Larry Kaniut has captured in one volume, the terror and beaut...
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The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey

By: Linda Greenlaw

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Hyperion: June 2000

Seller ID: 336109

ISBN: 0786885416

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her own, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick.

"A beautiful book . . . a story of triumph, of a woman not only making it but succeeding at the highest level in one of...
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Arctic wild

By: Lois Crisler

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper: January 1958

Seller ID: 332969

ISBN: B0006AV15C

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail

By: Lundy, Derek

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Ecco: March 2004

Seller ID: 338681

ISBN: 0060935375

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships," Cape Horn.

A century later, Derek Lundy, author of the bestselling Godforsaken Sea and an accomplished amateur seaman himself, set out to recount his forebear's journey. The Way of a Ship is a mesmerizing account of life on board a square-rigger, a remarkable reconstruction of a harr...
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Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters

By: Lundy, Derek

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Anchor: June 2000

Seller ID: 349928

ISBN: 0385720009

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--.Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle
A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendee Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure story, a graceful evocation of the sailing life, and a thoughtful meditation on danger and those who seek it.
This is the story of the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe, a solo sailing race that binds its competitors to just a few, cruelly ...
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