BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
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- Elephant Company, the inspiring story of an unlikely hero and the animals who helped him save lives in World War II, Vicki Constantine Croke
- The writing of the gods, the race to decode the Rosetta Stone, Edward Dolnick
- The broken road, from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, Patrick Leigh Fermor ; edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper
- The white darkness, David Grann
- Journey to the sun, Junipero Serra's dream and the founding of California, Gregory Orfalea
- Adrift, a true story of love, loss, and survival at sea, Tami Oldham Ashcraft with Susea McGearhart
- The impossible first, from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone, Colin O'Brady
- On call in the Arctic, a doctor's pursuit of life, love, and miracles in the Alaskan frontier, Thomas J. Sims
- Under a wild sky, John James Audubon and the making of the Birds of America, William Souder
- Chasing the thrill, obsession, death, and glory in America's most extraordinary treasure hunt, Daniel Barbarisi
- Short nights of the Shadow Catcher, the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan
- Smokejumper, a memoir by one of America's most select airborne firefighters, Jason A. Ramos and Julian Smith
- The ordinary spaceman, from boyhood dreams to astronaut, Clayton C. Anderson ; foreword by Nevada Barr
- Land of tears, the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa, Robert Harms
- A world of her own, 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers, Michael Elsohn Ross
- Trespassing across America, one man's epic, never-done-before (and sort of illegal) hike across the heartland, Ken Ilgunas
- Amazing explorers. Volume 1, Charles Margerison
- Adventures of a young naturalist, the zoo quest expeditions, David Attenborough
- The impossible first, from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone, Colin O'Brady
- Endurance, Shackleton's incredible voyage, Alfred Lansing ; introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Jefferson's America, the President, the purchase, and the explorers who transformed a nation, Julie M. Fenster
- The yellow envelope, one gift, three rules, and a life-changing journey around the world, Kim Dinan
- That wild country, an epic journey through the past, present, and future of America's public lands, Mark Kenyon
- In search of a kingdom, francis drake, elizabeth i, and the invention of the british empire, Laurence Bergreen
- The ledge, [an adventure story of friendship and survival on Mount Rainier], Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
- Beneath the Heart of the Sea, The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex
- Hell before breakfast, america's first war correspondents making history and headlines, from the battlefields of the civil war to the far reaches of the ottoman empire, Robert H. Patton
- Cold, three winters at the South Pole, Wayne L. White
- Giving the finger, risking it all to fish the world's deadliest sea, Scott Campbell, Jr. with Jim Ruland
- The stowaway, a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- The dawn watch, Joseph Conrad in a global world, Maya Jasanoff
- The adventurer's son, a memoir, Roman Dial
- The immortal Irishman, the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero, Timothy Egan
- James Cook, Susan Meyer
- The ledge, an adventure story of friendship and survival on Mount Rainier, Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
- A world of her own, 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers, Michael Elsohn Ross
- River of the gods, genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile, Candice Millard
- Wine to water, a bartender's quest to bring clean water to the world, Doc Hendley
- Elephant Company, the inspiring story of an unlikely hero and the animals who helped him save lives in World War II, Vicki Croke
- Headhunters on my doorstep, a true treasure island ghost story, J. Maarten Troost
- The story of a shipwrecked sailor, who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time, Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan
- Last man off, a true story of disaster and survival on the Antarctic seas, Matt Lewis
- The dawn watch, Joseph Conrad in a global world, Maya Jasanoff
- Short nights of the Shadow Catcher, the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan
- Fighting for space, two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight, Amy Shira Teitel
- The king's shadow, obsession, betrayal, and the deadly quest for the Lost City of Alexandria, Edmund Richardson
- The outsider, my life in intrigue, Frederick Forsyth
- Jungle Of Stone, The Extraordinary Journey Of John L. Stephens And Frederick Catherwood, William Carlsen
- The push, a climber's journey of endurance, risk, and going beyond limits, Tommy Caldwell
- The curse of Oak Island, the story of the world's longest treasure hunt, Randall Sullivan