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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: 333706

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"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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Fire

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2001

Seller ID: 377259

ISBN: 0393010465

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Few writers have been to so many desperate corners of the globe as has Sebastian Junger; fewer still have provided such starkly memorable evocations of characters and events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone to the logic of guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan and the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this new collection of Junger's nonfiction will take you places you wouldn't dream of going to on your own.
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 1999

Seller ID: 377956

ISBN: 0060977477

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in paperback with never-before-seen photos--just in time for Father's Day Superb. . . . Told with authority, brio and deep sympathy for those in peril on the sea.--Washington Post Book World. 8-page photo insert.
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Disappearance: A Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes

By: Sheila Nickerson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: April 1997

Seller ID: 383734

ISBN: 0156004984

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Weaving together personal experience and wilderness lore, this poetic journey through Alaska and Alaskan history is "a potent map of love and loss and how we find our way back home through the landscape of the heart" (Terry Tempest Williams).

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Gipsy Moth Circles the World

By: Sir Francis Chichester

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Coward-McCann: January 1967

Seller ID: 365462

ISBN: B0007ER58E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

One Watch at a Time: Around the World With Drum on the Whitbread Race

By: Skip Novak

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: March 1988

Seller ID: 328386

ISBN: 0393024989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure

By: Starkell, Don

Price: $9.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: September 1994

Seller ID: 392504

ISBN: 0771082568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime.

When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had each paddled nearly twenty million strokes, slept on beaches, in jungles and fields, dined on tapir, shark, and heaps of roasted ants.

They encountered piranhas, wild pigs, and hungry alligators. They were arrested, shot at, taken for spies and drug smugglers, and set upon by pirates. They had lived through terrifying hurricanes, food poisoning, an...
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This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing: September 2003

Seller ID: 371101

ISBN: 0689864485

Binding: School & Library Binding

Condition: Used - Good

In a story muscled with truth and imagination, Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002) recounts the epoch-making 1803 expedition of Lewis and Clark through the words of a young man. Finding foes and friends among Natives, surviving sickness and hunger, choosing between a woman and the life he left behind, George Shannon grows up as the corps forges a way west.

Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, Ambrose creates the fictional diary of nineteen-year-old George Shannon, who was in fact the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. He conjures the journey west with stunn...
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Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

By: Stewart, Christopher S.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper: January 2013

Seller ID: 397216

ISBN: 0061802549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"I began to daydream about the jungle...."

On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras.

Nearly seventy years later, in the same hotel, acclaimed journalist Christopher S. Stewart wonders what he's gotten himself into. Stewart and Morde seek the same answer on their quests: the solution to the riddle of the whereabouts of Ciudad Blanca, buried somewhere deep in the rain forest...
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Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

By: Symmes, Patrick

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: February 2000

Seller ID: 370879

ISBN: 0375702652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And on the way he runs out of gas in an Argentine desert, talks a Peruvian guerrilla out of taking him hostage, wipes out in the Andes, and, in Cuba, drinks himself blind with Che's travel partner, Alberto Granado.

Here is the unforgettable story of a wanderer's quest for food, shelter, and wisdom. Here,...
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The Ra Expeditions

By: Thor Heyerdahl

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday: August 1971

Seller ID: 385682

ISBN: 0385000987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration)

By: Tim Severin

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Modern Library: April 2000

Seller ID: 272004

ISBN: 0375755241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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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A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam: September 1991

Seller ID: 364424

ISBN: 0553278274

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Presents a minute-by-minute account of the collision between the Titanic and an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean, and the luxury ship's subsequent sinking.
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Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight

By: William Langewiesche

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: June 1999

Seller ID: 271630

ISBN: 067975007X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

William Langewiesche's life has been deeply intertwined with the idea and act of flying. Fifty years ago his father, a test pilot, wrote Stick and Rudder, a text still considered by many to be the bible of aerial navigation. Langewiesche himself learned to fly while still a child. Now he shares his pilot's-eye view of flight with those of us who take flight for granted--exploring the inner world of a sky that remains as exotic and revealing as the most foreign destination.

Langewiesche tells us how flight happens--what the pilot sees, thinks, and feels. His description is not merely...
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Columbus in the Americas (Turning Points in History (4))

By: William Least Heat-Moon

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Wiley: September 2002

Seller ID: 376712

ISBN: 0471211893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy

""They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold.""

With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that Colum...
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Epic : Stories of Survival from the Worlds Highest Peaks

By: WILLIS, CLINT

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Pub Group West: November 1997

Seller ID: 394735

ISBN: 1560251549

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Epic is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster the climb that went wrong; fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound, running low on food, water, and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. Editor Clint Willis has gathered the most exciting climbing literature of the modern age into one cliff-hanging volume with 15 memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks, often in the world's worst possible conditions. Authors include Jon Krakauer, Greg Child, David Roberts, Alfred Lansing, and oth...
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