Adam Shoalts

Get ready for our upcoming author talk with Adam Shoalts! We've put together a special reading list to prepare for his talk about his new book, "Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell".

The list includes his books, along with some of his favorite classic adventure tales and other similar books you might enjoy.

Join us on Thursday, October 23, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sarnia Library Theatre as Adam Shoalts recounts the unforgettable journey that inspired his new book.

Register here: https://lclibrary.libnet.info/event/13804167

Updated August 22, 2025
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My side of the mountain
George, Jean Craighead
Paper Book
"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."-The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods-all by himself....
The call of the wild
London, Jack
Paper Book
Buck lives a content life. Half St. Bernard, half Shepard, he is top dog on a California ranch. But the Gold Rush in the Klondike has produced an enormous demand for sled dogs so, when a gardener at the ranch needs to pay a gambling debt, stealing and selling Buck is a quick way to do it.
Alone at sea : the adventures of Joshua Slocum
Spencer, Ann 1955-
Paper Book
"I had only a moment to get all sail down and myself upon the peak halliards, out of danger, when I saw the mighty crest towering masthead-high above me. The mountain of water submerged my vessel. She shook in every timber and reeled under the weight of the sea ..." What would it be like to sail...
Ice walker : a polar bear's journey through the fragile Arctic
Raffan, James.
Paper Book
From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear's precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, "the bear-spirited one," is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where...
A walk in the park : the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin.
Paper Book
* Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times ...
Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage
Lansing, Alfred.
Paper Book
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, theEnduranceset sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short...

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