Category: Adventure

Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic

By: Ballard, Robert D.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: National Geographic : May 2021

Seller ID: 557428

ISBN-13: 9781426220999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery--plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life.Best known for finding the doomed ship Titanic, celebrated adventurer Robert Ballard has a lifetime of stories about exploring the ocean depths. Now he gets personal, telling the stories behind his most exciting discoveries--including how a top-secret naval mission provided the opportunity for his Titanic discovery--and opens up about his private tragedies. He frankly recounts the struggles he has worked through, ...
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The Discovery of the Titanic

By: Ballard, Robert D.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Warner Books : October 1989

Seller ID: 522631

ISBN-13: 9780446389129

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mystery of the Nile

By: Bangs, Richard,Scaturro, Pasquale

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Putnam Adult : February 2005

Seller ID: 480296

ISBN-13: 9780399152627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A thrilling account of the greatest geographical expedition of our time-the first-ever complete descent of the Nile River. Over the past century, many explorers have attempted to run the magnificent Nile, but none succeeded. At least a dozen men died trying, and since 1964, three explorers have been shot, two have drowned, and another simply disappeared. In April 2004, the renowned adventurer Pasquale Scaturro made history when he completed his epic journey down the Nile in 114 days, traveling 3,250 miles by kayak, from its source in Ethiopia to the shores of Alexandria, where it flows into ...
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Bruchko

By: Bruce Olson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Charisma House : June 1977

Seller ID: 332669

ISBN-13: 9780884191339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Walk in the Woods (Movie Tie-in Edition): Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Anchor : August 2015

Seller ID: 557343

ISBN-13: 9781101970881

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you re going to take a hike, it s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for t...
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Sailing in a Spoonful of Water: A Landlubber's Education on a Vintage Wooden Boat

By: Coomer, Joe

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Pica Books : January 1997

Seller ID: 543657

ISBN-13: 9780312156466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: The Ancient World

By: Damrosch, David, Alliston, April, Brown, Marshall, duBois, Page, Hafez, Sabry, K., Ursula Heise, Kadir, Djelal, L., David Pike, Pollock, Sheldon, Robbins, Bruce, Shirane, Haruo, Tylus, Jane, Yu, Pauline

Price: $55.40

Publisher: Longman : February 2004

Seller ID: 488337

ISBN-13: 9780321055330

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

This volume samples a broad range of literature from the ancient world. It offers extensive selections from The Bible, The Book of Songs, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Virgil's Aenid, as well as seven longer works in their entirety, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey .
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Two Years Before the Mast; and Twenty-four Years After (Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition, Registered, Vol. 23)

By: Dana, Richard Henry Jr.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son : January 1969

Seller ID: 493435

ISBN: B002C3QYJO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

By: Dial, Roman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Custom House : February 2021

Seller ID: 558479

ISBN-13: 9780062876614

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out." --Jon KrakauerGripping. --New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) * Beautiful. --Washington Post * Destined to become an adventure classic. --Anchorage Daily NewsIn the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth: The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial's extraordinary account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son's dissapearance in the jungles of Costa Rica.In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-o...
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20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship

By: Earhart, Amelia

Price: $5.95

Publisher: National Geographic : June 2003

Seller ID: 566664

ISBN-13: 9780792233763

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of her first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, the legendary aviator recalls her fascination with the early world of aviation and her 1928 transatlantic flight with Will Stultz aboard the Friendship to become the first woman pilot to accomplish the feat.
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The Polar Passion

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Little Brown : January 1967

Seller ID: 242111

ISBN: B001K2GRI6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Moonshine Mule: A 2,700-Mile Walk from Mexico to Manhattan (Explorers Club Book)

By: Fremantle, Tom

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Lyons Press : May 2005

Seller ID: 494726

ISBN-13: 9781592287161

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Explorers Club Book In the summer of 1863 Colonel Arthur Fremantle traveled through America at the height of the Civil War. Almost 140 years later, Tom Fremantle set off on the same journey. While Colonel Arthur rode on stagecoaches, steam trains, and Mississippi river skiffs, his less sensible descendant slogged the entire way on foot. Colonel Arthur flirted with saucy belles, Tom Fremantle kept company with a cantankerous eleven-year-old mule called Browny. Colonel Arthur set out at a time when America was ripping itself apart, while Tom Fremantle--who started his walk ten days before the Se...
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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

I Dreamed of Africa

By: Gallmann, Kuki

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books : May 1992

Seller ID: 559104

ISBN-13: 9780140144598

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This autobiography tells the story of an Italian woman whose life is driven by love of Africa. The prologue covers a string of deaths which shaped Kuki Gallmann's life including that of a woman friend who died in a car crash. The widower, Paulo (who then married Kuki), his two daughters and Kuki's son by a previous marriage all went to Kenya and bought a large estate. Paulo died in an accident and Kuki's son died aged 17, bitten by one of his own puff-adders. Kuki had a couple of affairs - one with a married white planter, another with a film stuntman who involved her in the film Out of Africa...
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Voyages to Paradise : Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook (Special Publications Series 15, No. 4)

By: Gray, William R.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Natl Geographic Society : January 1981

Seller ID: 492313

ISBN-13: 9780870442841

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

By: Hansen, Eric

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage : November 2000

Seller ID: 567555

ISBN-13: 9780375724954

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle where snakes and frogs fly, pigs climb trees, giant carnivorous plants eat mice, and mushrooms glow at night. At once a modern classic of travel literature and a gripping adventure story, Stranger in the Forest provides a rare and intimate look at the vanishing way of life of one of the last sur...
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My Old Man and the Sea : A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn

By: HAYS, DAVID, HAYS, DANIEL

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Workman Pub Co : May 1995

Seller ID: 543285

ISBN-13: 9781565121027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A story of adventure on a small boat, for fathers, for sons, and for those who love them. On this voyage the father relinquishes control, the son becomes the captain, and before long they are utterly alone, with only the huge waves of Cape Horn, a compass, a sextant, a pet cat, and the tiny boat they've built together. "The account of the passage, related in alternating sections by father and son, will be read with delight 100 years from now."--William F. Buckley, The New York Times Book Review, front page; "A must read for sailors of the sea and of the heart."--Eco Traveler. Over three month...
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