Adventure

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fiction, Adventure, History, Action lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

MobyDick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, MobyDick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of MobyDick, and f...

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no Adult, supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and e...

Swift's masterful satire is as entertaining today as it was when first published in 1726. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels has captivated readers for nearly three centuries....

Richard Branson recommended this book on his "70 must-read books" blog post.

A bank of clouds was assembling on the notsodistant horizon, but journalistmountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless moreincluding Krakauer'sin guiltridden disarray, would also pro...

"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a whitewater 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 cathead on the port bo...

"I reread [this book] with the girls, too." - Michelle Obama

Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and supplies, the skin on his hands and th...

First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey?s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man?s quest to experience nature in its purest form.Throu...

Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a welltodo family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cas...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES NPR THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Awardwinning author Barry Lopez delivers his most farranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author's travels to six regions of the world: from Western Or...

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath_x0097_The Appalachian Trail.The 2,000plusmile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wilde...

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely dif...

From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Timesbestselling chronicle of travelling the world in search the globe's greatest cuilnary adventuresThe only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, "What would be the perfect meal...

Mark Twain recommended this book in a letter.

In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans_x0097_and the first women_x0097_to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world_x0092_s tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here tells their dramatic story: the logistical problems, storms, and hazardous ice climbing; the conflicts ...

One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.

In No Picnic on Mount Kenya, Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring adventures of this century. In 1943, Benuzzi and two fellow Italian prisoners of war escaped from a British camp in equatorial East Africa with one goalto climb the seventeenthousandfoot Mount Kenya. Filled with suspense and humor, it is an extraordinary sto...

The age of exploration is not over. When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he discovered surprised even him. Shoalts was no stranger to the wilderness. He had hacked his way through jungles and swamp, had stared down polar bears and climbed mounta...

The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane's personal account of the first expedition to t...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Adventure lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for reader-fit discovery across adjacent interests. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Package includes the following paperbacks in the FABLEHAVEN series: FABLEHAVEN RISE OF THE EVENING STAR GRIP OF THE SHADOW PLAGUE SECRETS OF THE DRAGON SANCTUARY KEYS TO THE DEMON PRISON...

Magnus Chase, a oncehomeless teen, is on a deathdefying quest across the Norse realms, literally. As a resident of the Hotel Valhalla, this son of the god Frey is now one of Odin's chosen warriors. Magnus and his friends, Hearthstone the elf, Blitzen the dwarf, Samirah the Valkyrie, and other heroic characters must use all their wits and special ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The world_x0092_s youngest and smartest genius is forced to use her unbelievable codebreaking skills to outsmart Einstein.Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a thief. Charlie Thorne isn_x0092_t old enough to drive. And now it_x0092_s up to her to save the world_x0085_ Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth_x0097_or destr...

A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first allfemale teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged gender stereotypes in the academic community a...

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalisted went to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. They formed an instant friendship and then became partners in an attemp...

The first book in the actionpacked trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is perfect for fans of Stranger Things and James Patterson. Eli Frieden has never left Serenity, New Mexico...why would he ever want to Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes ever...

A wellloved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and againThis is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Miles From Nowhere is an adventure not to be missed!Along t...

Captain Blood: His Odyssey (1922) by Rafael Sabatini is just possibly the novel that gave rise to the modern definition of a gentleman pirate. Peter Blood, an honest man of true character and a humane doctor, is wrongfully imprisoned for treason under the laws of King James, and deported from Britain to a tropical colony at Bridgetown where he is s...

More than a halfcentury ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone_x0097_studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man)_x0097_is today celebrated as a classic of nature wr...

Annapurna is the unforgettable account of this heroic climb and of its harrowing aftermath, including a nightmare descent of frostbite, snow blindness, and near death....

The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches of AlaskaAlaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated abou...

ALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the remainder of the lines being almost completely obliterated by the action of the water. Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of...

This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000meter summit at a time.For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing_x0092_s holy grail: to stand atop the world_x0092_s fourteen 8,000meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Short...

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, an Outside magazine writer tells her story_x0097_of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.I_x0092_m running to forget, and to remember.For more than a decade, Katie Arnold chased adventure around the world, reporting on extreme athletes who per...

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes_x0097_America_x0092_s public lands.Every American is a publicland owner, inheritor to the largest publicland trust in the world. These vast expanses provide a home to wildlife populations, a vital source of c...

Now in her midthirties, Loewen has become a wife, a mother, and a leader of Seattle Mountain Rescue (SMR), a volunteerbased searchandrescue operation. She no longer struggles with the respect of coworkers (she has it in spades) nor crippling selfdoubt (overcome after hundreds of rescues). But she does still ponder the question of why she cont...

An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David_x0096_Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, di...