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  • The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake
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    The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake

    A classic biography of the legendary English seafarer and privateer, this book covers Drake's youthful adventures as a sailor, his daring raids against the Spanish Armada, and his circumnavigation of the globe. With first-hand accounts of many of Drake's...
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  • Antarctic Adventure Antarctic Adventure
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    Antarctic Adventure

    Antarctic Adventure is the thrilling and harrowing account of the 1911-1912 scientific expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott to explore the uncharted regions of the Antarctic continent. The book focuses on the journey of the Northern Party, a group of...
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  • FIFTY YEARS BELOW ZERO FIFTY YEARS BELOW ZERO
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    FIFTY YEARS BELOW ZERO

    In the frozen wastes of Antarctica, a team of intrepid explorers battled against the elements for half a century. This remarkable true story of survival and endurance is an inspiration to all who seek to overcome adversity.This work has been selected by...
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  • A Woman's way Through Unknown Labrador A Woman's way Through Unknown Labrador
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    A Woman's way Through Unknown Labrador

    In this gripping tale, Hubbard recounts her harrowing journey through the wilderness of Labrador in 1903. With vivid descriptions of the landscape and its challenges, as well as the customs and traditions of the native people she encountered, she offers...
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  • Bring Em Back Alive Bring Em Back Alive
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    Bring Em Back Alive

    This thrilling memoir recounts the incredible adventures of Frank Buck, a daredevil cowboy and animal collector who hunted exotic animals for American zoos and circuses in the first half of the 20th century. Buck's wit, charm, and bravery captured the...
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    Life, Camera, Action
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    Life, Camera, Action

    It took ten years in the coal mines for Mitchell Burns to realise that no pay cheque is worth sacrificing your dreams. Now he’s making up for lost time.Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in...
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    Antarctica's Lost Aviator
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    Antarctica's Lost Aviator

    The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history...
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    Denali
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    Denali

    In the bestselling tradition of Finding Gobi and Marley & Me, the moving story of a dog, his human, and the friendship that saved both their lives – and inspired countless others.Ben Moon had no intention of getting a dog until he met the soulful...
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    Mind Over Mountain

    A simple mistake at an indoor climbing gym sentenced 28-year-old Robby to a year in a wheelchair, shattering his aspirations of becoming a mountaineer.In the months that followed, Robby faced depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and a complete loss of...
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    River of Darkness
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    River of Darkness

    The acclaimed author ofConquistadorandLabyrinth of Icecharts one of history's greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurer's death-defying navigation of the Amazon River.In 1541, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his lieutenant...
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  • Mapping the Deep
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    Mapping the Deep

    Embark on an extraordinary journey into the depths of the ocean.Oceanographer Dawn Wright made history in 2022 when she became the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest and most unexplored place on Earth-a trip that took her over...
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  • When Spirit Calls
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    When Spirit Calls

    Diver's journey from respected foundation executive to spiritual healer includes forays with healing ministries, spiritual guides, and esoteric experiences.When Spirit Calls is at once an adventure story and meditation on the healing journey that traces...
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  • White Gold
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    White Gold

    White Gold: The Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1896 1906, is a tale of humanity and the natural order working together in the midst of greed and ignorance. The crisis of the Amazon rainforest began more than a century ago when prospectors...
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    Searching for Franklin
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    Searching for Franklin

    Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's...
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    Wild Heart
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    Wild Heart

    For Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr, a road is only worth traveling if it comes with some unexpected turns.In her midfifties, Dr. Stacey Kerr was diagnosed with osteoporosis and told to play it safe. Instead, she bought her first Harley. Over the next fourteen...
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    Instead
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    Instead

    A compelling memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of that choice.Instead captures Maria Coffey's adventurous life through her biggest decisions along the way, including the decision not to have children. It's...
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    Finding Elevation
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    Finding Elevation

    Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue climbing. Her choices were clear: give in to her doubts and descend or push past her own limits and continue up the mountain's steep face...
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    The Pueblos

    A gripping and one-of-a-kind memoir about both travel and the inner life of a bullrunnerAuthor has received widespread media coverage for his past bullrunning exploits, and has many high-profile friends in that communityPlanning lots of promotional work...
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    Into the Wind

    Without a map, nineteen-year-old Jake Ducey leaves behind a drug-filled life and college basketball scholarship to wander the world and prove we can find our dreams by following our heart. On the outskirts of civilization, often uncertain, without money...
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    Paddling My Own Canoe

    Go Simple, Go Solo, Go NowIn 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find a...
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    Paddling North

    In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling...
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    Swell
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    Swell

    Chasing a dream is never easy, but if you go far enough, it will set you free.Captain Liz Clark spent her youth dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat and surfing remote waves. When she was 22, she met a mentor who helped turn her desire into...
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    Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968

    This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the...
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  • You Can't Win
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    You Can't Win

    You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs.After its Amok Press edition went...
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    The Wild Muir

    Here is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir's most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm...
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  • A Talib's Tale
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    A Talib's Tale

    John Butt came to Swat in 1970 as a young man in search of an education he couldn't get from his birthplace in England. He travels around the region, first only with friends from his home country, but as he befriends the locals and starts to learn about...
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  • Life in Reverse
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    Life in Reverse

    Starting from present and going back 30 years to 1990, the book about African-American jazz musician Ron Westray's life journey is written in reverse. The writing is rigorous-flanked by hip-hop, Southern, and ebonic dialects-and includes jazz lingo,...
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    Between the Devil and the Deep
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    Between the Devil and the Deep

    "One of the best accounts ever written of deep-water diving and its staggering, haunting dangers." Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers Deep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the...
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    The Incredible Voyage
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    The Incredible Voyage

    'Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping...readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.' BOOKLISTA man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no...
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    The Boy and the Mountain
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    The Boy and the Mountain

    In this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier - a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, and the joy of discovery.Six-year-old Hans Torske...
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    The Art of Misadventure

    Experience the quirky missteps, humorous adventures, and professional development of a renowned Canadian photographer in this entertaining memoir.Join Canadian photographer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, father, and writer...
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    Lights to Guide Me Home
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    Lights to Guide Me Home

    This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to navigate the unfamiliar and find your way back home.Meghan J. Ward was 21 years old when she journeyed across the country for a summer job in the Canadian...
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    Honouring High Places

    A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei's stirring life that she...
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    A Tramp's Philosophy

    This new entry in Feral House's Tramp Lit Series is Bart Kennedy's late work distilling his life and experiences into a concept for living. He includes insights on everything from religion to civilisation, crime, and the lure of the open road. 'No social...
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    Making Mavericks
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    Making Mavericks

    When Richard "Frosty" Hesson was first approached by a young Jay Moriarty in 1990, the skinny kid with a sparkle in his eye only wanted one thing from the icon: his help in becoming a better surfer. Hesson, one of the first to conquer the huge waves off...
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  • The Little Ukrainian
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    The Little Ukrainian

    In the Ukraine during World War II, a father sends his little son to live with his brother and his wife. Shortly thereafter, the father joins the partisans in the East, while his brother, wife, and the boy proceed West with the retreating Germans. On the...
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  • The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
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    The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

    Written while Nat Love was living in California, this autobiography is an invaluable record of the wildness of the American West in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Filled with tales of adventure and danger, The Life and Adventures of Nat...
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  • A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
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    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912) is a memoir by Matthew Henson. Published a few years following an expedition to the planet's northernmost point-which he claims to have reached first-A Negro Explorer at the North Pole reflects on Henson's...
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  • The Journals of Captain Cook The Journals of Captain Cook
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    The Journals of Captain Cook

    Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of James Cook depict three of Captain James Cook's most...
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  • A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people...
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    Paddling with Spirits: A Solo Kayak Journey
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    Paddling with Spirits: A Solo Kayak Journey

    Inspired partly by her own spirit of adventure, and partly by the stories of her native coastal ancestors, Irene Skyriver celebrated her fortieth year of life with a solo kayak voyage, paddling from Alaska to her home in Washington's San Juan Islands...
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  • Bangkok Babylon
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    Bangkok Babylon

    In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Maugham and Theroux, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters. Among them are the man thought to be the model...
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  • Shackleton
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    Shackleton

    Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic
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  • Lasseter's Gold
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    Lasseter's Gold

    When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15 kilometre gold reef. The...
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