Category: Adventure

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: Aron Ralston

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

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Aron Ralston

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

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Aron Ralston

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

The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley

By: Barbara Washburn,Bradford Washburn

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Epicenter Press, Incorporated: May 2001

Seller ID: 330009

ISBN: 0945397917

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Barbara Washburn never set out to become a mountaineering pioneer, but she wasn't content to be a stay-at-home wife, either. In 1947, defying social convention, Washburn became the first woman to climb Alaska's Mt. McKinley. She accompanied her husband--famed explorer, mountaineer, and photographer Bradford Washburn--on other expeditions to Alaska, the Grand Canyon, and Mt. Everest, while raising three children at their home near Boston.
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Perennial / HarperCollins: November 2004

Seller ID: 324801

ISBN: 006093638X

Condition: Used - Very Good

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

"Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist <...
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Perennial / HarperCollins: November 2004

Seller ID: 347072

ISBN: 006093638X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

King of the Wa-Kikuyu: A True Story of Travel and Adventure in Africa (Library of African Adventure)

By: Boyes, John

Price: $11.95

Publisher: St Martins Pr: June 1993

Seller ID: 345038

ISBN: 0312093209

Condition: Used - Acceptable

True North: Peary, Cook, And The Race To The Pole

By: Bruce Henderson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: April 2005

Seller ID: 281278

ISBN: 0393057917

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bruce Henderson has constructed this revealing narrative out of the claims and counterclaims of Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, introducing fascinating scientific and psychological evidence to put the appalling details of polar travel in a new context.
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Bruchko

By: Bruce Olson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Charisma House: June 1977

Seller ID: 332669

ISBN: 0884191338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

By: Captain Roald Amundsen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cooper Square Press: November 2000

Seller ID: 333929

ISBN: 0815411278

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but--due to poor preparation and miscalculation--died with the rest of his party on their return trip. The South Pole remains one of the greatest and most important books on polar exploration.
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Life with the Esquimaux;: A narrative of Arctic experience in search of survivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition

By: Charles Francis Hall

Price: $17.95

Publisher: C. E. Tuttle Co: January 1970

Seller ID: 170022

ISBN: 0804803838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Alone: The Man Who Braved the Vast Pacific and Won

By: D'Aboville, Gerard

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: June 1994

Seller ID: 337165

ISBN: 155970246X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The incredible story of one man's heroic battle against almost impossible odds, Alone tells of d'Aboville's mission to row across the Pacific Ocean. A gripping story not just of physical endurance but of mental and spiritual fortitude.--Publishers Weekly. Introduction by Paul Theroux. 24 photos, 22 in color. Map.
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The raft Lehi IV;: 69 days adrift on the Pacific Ocean

By: DeVere Baker

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Whitehorn Pub. Co: January 1959

Seller ID: 318152

ISBN: B0007EZMAW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

By: DK

Price: $9.95

Publisher: DK Publishing: September 2010

Seller ID: 346406

ISBN: 0756667372

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's "Explorers" tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to c...
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Paddle to the Arctic: The Incredible Story of a Kayak Quest Across the Roof of the World

By: Don Starkell

Price: $4.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: September 1996

Seller ID: 301317

ISBN: 0771082487

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The incredible story of a kayak quest across the roof of the world.
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Nunaga Ten Years of Eskimo Life

By: Duncan Pryde

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Walker and Company: January 1972

Seller ID: 319412

ISBN: 0802703690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Crown Archetype: October 2009

Seller ID: 262453

ISBN: 0767932501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of "No Shortcuts to the Top
"At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2-the worst single-event tragedy in the m...
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Category: Adventure