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Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Lyons Press: December 2003

Seller ID: 332072

ISBN: 1592281362

Condition: Used - Very Good

Well into the nineteenth century, Arctic explorers believed that they needed only to smash their ships through a ring of ice encircling the top of the globe, and from there they could tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Acting on this belief, these adventurers were crushed by ice, wasted by scurvy, and frozen to death on the ice floes. This European notion of the Arctic as a ring of ice surrounding a void not only lured countless sailors to their deaths, but also had the effect of drowning out the voices and the visions of the native Arctic people. Now this vibrant collection ce...
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper: June 2003

Seller ID: 317393

ISBN: 006054564X

Condition: Used - Very Good

Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The "large old house" on the Calle Cueto, where her mother was born and which her grandfather evoked so frequently that Isabel felt as if she had lived there, became the protagonist of her first novel, The House of the Spirits. It appears again at the beginning of Allende's playful, seductively compelling memoir My Invented Country, and leads us into this gifted writer's world.Here are the almost mythic figures of a Chilean family -- grandparents and great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends -- with whom readers of...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Aron Ralston

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Atria Books: September-2004

Seller ID: 48360

ISBN: 0743492811

Condition: Used - Very Good

One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation, and though he met two charming women along the way, b...
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A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic

By: Charles Officer, Jake Page

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March-2001

Seller ID: 6485

ISBN: 0195123824

Condition: Used - Very Good

Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and stamina. A Fabulous Kingdom: Tales of the Arctic charts these quests and the eventual race for the North Pole in unprecedented detail, chronicling the lives and misconceptions that would eventually throw light on this "magical realm" of sunless winters. Setting the scene with an explanation of the arctic region's geography, geology, and climate, the authors present the physical and ideological barriers that faced early sailors travel...
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The Valley of the Upper Yellowstone

By: Charles W. Cook, David E. Folsom, and William Peterson

Price: $3.50

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press:

Seller ID: 194936

ISBN: 4285002716

Condition: Used - Very Good

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

By: Foer, Joshua,Thuras, Dylan,Morton, Ella

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: September 2016

Seller ID: 338159

ISBN: 0761169083

Condition: Used - Very Good

Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey that Changed the Way We Se

By: Gerard Helferich

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Gotham: April-2004

Seller ID: 143517

ISBN: 1592400523

Condition: Used - Very Good

The thrilling story of the charismatic explorer who Simon Bolivar called athe true discoverer of South Americaa and the daring expedition that altered the course of science. From 1799 to 1804 German naturalist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt conducted the first extensive scientific exploration of Latin America. At the completion of his arduous 6,000-mile journey, he was feted by Thomas Jefferson and presented to Napoleon, and, with the subsequent publication of his findings, he would be hailed as the greatest scientific genius of his age. "Humboldtas Cosmos" tells the story of th...
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

By: Hansen, Eric

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Vintage: November 2000

Seller ID: 308493

ISBN: 0375724958

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past

By: Hordern, Miles

Price: $6.50

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: April 2003

Seller ID: 322300

ISBN: 0312310811

Condition: Used - Very Good

Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells of monumental proportions. The trip would take him through the fjords of Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world, then north on the P...
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Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival

By: Jarvis, Tim

Price: $7.50

Publisher: William Morrow: January 2014

Seller ID: 344470

ISBN: 0062282735

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever--and in period clothing and gear--the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.In early 1914, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team sailed for Antarctica, attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole. Instead of glory, Shackleton and his crew found themselves in an epic struggle for survival: a three-year odyssey on the ice and oceans of the Antarctic that endures as o...
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At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane

By: John Kretschmer

Price: $5.50

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press: August-2007

Seller ID: 4045

ISBN: 0071498877

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The tale of Carl Wake and the hurricane that was waiting for him goes straight to the heart of the greatest sea stories: they are not about man against the sea, but man against himself. John Kretschmer's book is as perfectly shaped and flawlessly written as such a story can be. In addition to being the best depiction I have ever read of what it is like to be inside a hurricane at sea, At the Mercy of the Sea is as moving a story of a man's failure and redemption as can be found anywhere in the literature of the sea. This book is surely destined to become a classic."--Peter Nichols, author ...
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My First Summer in the Sierra

By: John Muir

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Barnes and Noble: January 2006

Seller ID: 50028

ISBN: 0760784523

Condition: Used - Very Good

No Summit out of Sight

By: Jordan Romero

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.: January 2016

Seller ID: 320817

ISBN: 1338013254

Condition: Used - Very Good

Cold Summer Wind

By: Klein

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Wilderness Adventure Books: September 1985

Seller ID: 281753

ISBN: 096115960X

Condition: Used - Very Good

Into the Wild

By: Krakauer

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Anchor: February 1997

Seller ID: 297573

ISBN: 0385486804

Condition: Used - Very Good

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. 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 cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of "Into the Wild." Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a visio...
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The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage

By: Lambert, Andrew

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Yale University Press: January 2011

Seller ID: 306218

ISBN: 0300167881

Condition: Used - Very Good

Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine.His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand bo...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Lansing

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Tyndale House: June 1999

Seller ID: 84451

ISBN: 0842308245

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face of astounding obstacles. A bestseller since it was first published in 1959, Alfred Lansing's "Endurance" now features a foreword and afterword from Dr. James Dobson--inspiring every reader to persevere no matter how impossible the challenge.
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Wisdom Chaser: Finding My Father at 14,000 Feet

By: Nathan Foster

Price: $4.50

Publisher: IVP Books: April 2010

Seller ID: 81129

ISBN: 0830836306

Condition: Used - Very Good

It began with a simple question: "One day I found myself asking my father, across the chasm between us, 'Hey Dad, you want to climb the highest mountain in Colorado?'" And for Nathan Foster and his father, Richard, that simple question changed everything. With no hiking experience to draw on, they embarked on a journey of physical challenge, discovering just how far they could push themselves. For Nathan a parallel journey took him inside himself. Having grown up in the shadow of a famous father, Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline, Nathan had a lot of questions about who hi...
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Untold Secrets of Planet Earth: Amazon Expedition (Discovery Series)

By: Nelson

Price: $5.50

Seller ID: 327744

ISBN: 0986882135

Condition: Used - Very Good

Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season

By: Nichols, Peter

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Putnam Adult: October 2009

Seller ID: 322287

ISBN: 039915602X

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America's first oil industry was fateful and catastrophic. The harvesting of whale oil, which grew from occasional beachcombing into a multi-million dollar industry, made New Bedford, Massachusetts, the wealthiest town in the world. Quaker brothers George and Matthew Howland, the town's lea...
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