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The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

By: Maas, Peter

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper: October 1999

Seller ID: 345742

ISBN: 0060194804

Condition: Used - Good

On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend on one man.

In this thrilling true narrative of terror, heroism and courage in the depths of a malevolent ocean, prizewinning author Peter Maas brings us in vivid detail a blow-by-blow account of the disaster and its uncertain outcome. The sub was the Squalus. The man was a U.S. Navy of...
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Knockdown : The Harrowing True Story of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly

By: Martin Dugard

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Atria: January 1999

Seller ID: 328271

ISBN: 0671038796

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An inquiry into the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobart yachting challenge chronicles the storm that slammed into the race, stranding sixty-three sailors and resulting in six deaths.
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Antarctica: A Year at the Bottom of the World

By: Mastro, Jim

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Bulfinch: June 2002

Seller ID: 342829

ISBN: 0821227548

Condition: Used - Very Good

Experience the strange beauty of Antarctica through photographs and exciting personal anecdotes that take armchair travelers and future explorers right to the edge of the ice In this breathtaking book, Jim Mastro describes his striking year-long account of what it's like to exist at the bottom of the world, complete with photographs, captions, and his own dramatic, personal narrative. Experience face-to-face encounters with pods of killer whales, deadly winter storms, and floes of gray ice. Endure the lonely isolation during four months of utter darkness. Enjoy the anticipation and warmth of ...
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Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: McCloskey,

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The History Press: October 2013

Seller ID: 346334

ISBN: 0752491482

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Dyatlov Pass incident resulted in nine unsolved, mysterious deaths; Keith McCloskey attempts to decipher the bizzare events that led up to that night and the subsequent aftermath

In January 1959, 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. Otorten translates to "don't go there" in the local Mansi language. During the trip, one of the skiers fell ill and returned. The remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl, or "Mountain of the Dead." On the night of February 1...
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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

By: Paulsen, Gary

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: February 1995

Seller ID: 355679

ISBN: 0156001454

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, and hallucinations in the relentless push to go on. Map and color photographs.

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The River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration, and Exploitation of the World's Most Dramatic River

By: Peter Forbath

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: February 1991

Seller ID: 260068

ISBN: 0395567254

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North

By: Peter Freuchen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, inc: January 1935

Seller ID: 295226

ISBN: B0006ANFME

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Movie Tie-in)

By: Philbrick, Nathaniel

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 2015

Seller ID: 324789

ISBN: 0143126814

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film based on this National Book Award-winning account of the true events behind Moby Dick.

In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known docu...
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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899

By: Pierre Berton

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Little, Brown: January 1983

Seller ID: 286957

ISBN: 0316092185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Cork Boat

By: Pollack, John

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Pantheon: January 2004

Seller ID: 338821

ISBN: 0375422579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Voyage of the Discovery (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

By: R.F. Scott

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd: April 2009

Seller ID: 278916

ISBN: 1840221771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind . . . Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it'. So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. When this account of Scott's first Antarctic expedition appeared in 1905 the reviewers recognised it as a masterpiece and the first printing sold out immediately. Scott is best known for his doomed last expedition in 1912, but it was this earlier voyage that truly began the opening up of the ...
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Scott's Last Expedition

By: R.F. Scott

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.: March 2011

Seller ID: 278923

ISBN: 1840226692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. 'Had we lived, ' he wrote, 'I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.' Scott's diaries, discovered with his body the next spring and then used as the essence of the book Scott's Last Expedition, caught the public imagination in a way few tales of exploratio...
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Race to the South Pole (The Great Adventures)

By: Roald Amundsen

Price: $8.95

Publisher: White Star: March 2007

Seller ID: 287602

ISBN: 8854402176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Part historical essay, part scientific article, and part enthralling diary-Roald Amundsen's (1872-1928) book presents intriguing documentation about how his expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, just one month ahead of his rival, Robert Scott. Amundsen organized his gripping account using what is referred to in the film industry as the zooming technique. It starts in the past, examining the history of Antarctic exploration in different eras, and then moves ahead to describe how his own expedition was created, its organization, the slow stages involved in preparing for departu...
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Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death, And Survival In The Merchant Marine

By: Robert Frump

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday: May 2002

Seller ID: 323998

ISBN: 0385501161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Shadow Divers

By: Robert Kurson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House: January 2004

Seller ID: 248564

ISBN: 0965925072

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Voyage of A Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River

By: Robin Cody

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Sasquatch Books: October 1996

Seller ID: 327006

ISBN: 1570610835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Voyage of A Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River

By: Robin Cody

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Sasquatch Books: October 1996

Seller ID: 327029

ISBN: 1570610835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Kipawa River Chronicles

By: Scott Sorensen

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Scott Sorensen: May 1999

Seller ID: 233020

ISBN: 096729830X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W.W. Norton: May 1997

Seller ID: 284558

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. . . . I]f the boat's not going to Buschor, Buschor's going to have to go to it. SWIM they scream over the rail. SWIM Buschor rips off his gloves and hood and starts swimming for his life."

It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfec...
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W.W. Norton: May 1997

Seller ID: 305828

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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