Nonfiction 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.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Hiking, NonFiction, Fiction, Adventure, Travel 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.”

Laurence Gonzales?s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers? everyday lives. Its mix of adventure narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired everyone from business leaders to military officers, educators, and psychiatric professionals on how to take control o...

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...

The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910?1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written by a member of the expedition, Apsley CherryGarrard, and has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning (if any) of human su...

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...

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...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fiction, Adventure, Travel, Hobbies 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.”

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURERobyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: ?I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going ba...

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 ...

Touching the Void is the heartstopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1985. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, with news that that Joe was dead.What happened to Joe, and how the ...

"Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost".October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"a tempest that may happen only once in a centurya nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an ho...

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirtysix weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survi...

#1 New York Times Bestseller?No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down?. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one?s own life and its value.? ? New RepublicSixteen Men, SeventyTwo Days, and Insurmountable Odds?the Classic Adventure of Survival in the AndesOn October 12, 1972, an Urug...

Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people....

Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is ...

A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desertdwelling peoples.In a calm May morning in 1815, Captain James Riley and the crew of the Commerce left ...