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Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America's First Women Explorers

By: Olds, Elizabeth Fagg

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (P): September 1985

Seller ID: 363254

ISBN: 0395395844

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane Goodalls and Sally Rides, these women represent a fascinating but forgotten era in the literature of exploration.
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Bruchko

By: Olson, Bruce

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Charisma House: June 1977

Seller ID: 332669

ISBN: 0884191338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Small Boat an Unfinished Dream

By: Paltins, Jan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dummy Book Co: January 1996

Seller ID: 351619

ISBN: 0968004520

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

By: Patterson, J. H.

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Pocket Books: September 1996

Seller ID: 367852

ISBN: 0671003062

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo: And Other East African Adventures

By: Patterson, John Henry

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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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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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

By: Philbrick, Nathaniel

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Viking Adult: May 2000

Seller ID: 368639

ISBN: 0670891576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed--at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port b...
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Cork Boat

By: Pollack, John

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Pantheon: January 2004

Seller ID: 338821

ISBN: 0375422579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Nunaga Ten Years of Eskimo Life

By: Pryde, Duncan

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Walker and Company: January 1972

Seller ID: 319412

ISBN: 0802703690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Into the Bermuda Triangle : Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery

By: Quasar, Gian

Price: $7.95

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press: October 2003

Seller ID: 363268

ISBN: 007142640X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This volume is the summation of 12 years of research into the Bermuda Triangle. It first covers the mysteries of the lost ships and airplanes in chronological sequence, presenting the relevant details from the NTSB and other official reports. Eyewitness and survivor testimonies are also included. The second half of the book presents the fascinating discoveries and far-reaching theories the author encountered in his 12-year pursuit of causes and explanations.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Ralston, Aron

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atria Books: September 2004

Seller ID: 265091

ISBN: 0743492811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 127 HOURS
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told--Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.
It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and to...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Ralston, Aron

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atria Books: September 2004

Seller ID: 303325

ISBN: 0743492811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 127 HOURS
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told--Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.
It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and to...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Ralston, Aron

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Atria Books: August 2005

Seller ID: 325460

ISBN: 074349282X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 127 HOURS
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told--Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.
It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and to...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Ralston, Aron

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atria Books: September 2004

Seller ID: 333779

ISBN: 0743492811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 127 HOURS
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told--Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.
It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and to...
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Long Walk

By: RAWICZ, SLAVOMIR

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr: May 1988

Seller ID: 370743

ISBN: 1558216847

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1941, the author and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labour camp. Their march out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man's desire to be free.
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Sufferings in Africa: The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara

By: Riley, Captain James

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing: April 2007

Seller ID: 374395

ISBN: 1602390428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress, as one of the books that most influenced his life, few true tales of adventure and survival are as astonishing as this one. Shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in August of 1815, James Riley and his crew had no idea of the trials awaiting them as they gathered their beached belongings. They would be captured by a band of nomadic Arabs, herded across the Sahara Desert, beaten, forced to witness astounding brutalities, sold into slavery, and starved. Riley watched most of his crew die one by one, killed o...
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The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration)

By: Severin, Tim

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Modern Library: April 2000

Seller ID: 272004

ISBN: 0375755241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built a boat identical to the leather curragh that carried Brendan on his epic voyage. He found a centuries-old, family-run tannery to prepare the ox hides in the medieval way; he undertook an exhaustive search for skilled harness makers (the only people who would know how to stitch the three-quarter-...
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Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific

By: Sharp, Andrew

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1957

Seller ID: 361354

ISBN: B0000CJSIW

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Touching the Void

By: Simpson, Joe

Price: $6.95

Publisher: VINTAGE: January 2004

Seller ID: 358107

ISBN: 0099452294

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics)

By: Slocum, Joshua

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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New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biograp...
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