Adventure & Exploration

Updated September 25, 2023
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Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
Krakauer, Jon.
Paper Book
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in...
Into the wild
Krakauer, Jon.
Audiobook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson...
A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bryson, Bill.
Paper Book
The longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, through some of the most arresting and celebrated landscapes in America. At the age of forty-four, in the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last...
Graveyard of the Pacific : shipwreck and survival on America's deadliest waterway
Sullivan, Randall
Paper Book
A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure and memoir, bringing to life one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world.
The underworld : journeys to the depths of the ocean
Casey, Susan
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. ______________________________________________ 'Fantastical and forbidding' Washington...

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