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Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors
• Piers Paul Read
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The gripping tale of survival against all odds: a plane crashes in the Andes, all passengers presumed dead. Read tells the story of terrible hardship, bravery and horror with admirable restraint.
(AND38, $7.99)
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Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath
• Maurice Herzog
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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This classic account of the first ascent of an 8,000-meter peak -- and their extraordinary rescue -- was dictated by expedition leader Herzog from his hospital bed in Paris.
(HML07, $16.95)
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Aristophene's Lysistrata
• Aristophanes
• Nicholas Rudall
• LITERATURE
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Aristophen's great anti-war drama.
(GRE79, $9.95)
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Desert Survival Skills
• David Alloway
• GUIDEBOOK
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A friendly, humorous guide to short-term and long-term survival in the desert.
(DES06, $24.95)
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Endurance, An Epic of Polar Adventure
• Frank Worsley
• Patrick O'Brian
• EXPLORATION
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A 1931 memoir by the captain of the Endurance, the companion to Shackleton's Boat Journey.
(ANT73, $13.95)
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Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
• Alfred Lansing
• EXPLORATION
• BEST SELLER
• FAVORITE
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An extraordinary tale of survival that reads like a good novel. It's the gripping day-by-day story of Shackleton's legendary perseverance: losing his ship in the ice, drifting helplessly across the Weddell Sea and finally reaching Elephant Island, from where he sailed 800 miles to get help for his stranded men.
(ANT03, $14.95)
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Epic, Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks
• Clint Willis
• ANTHOLOGY
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A terrific collection of great writing about mountaineering.
(HML37, $17.95)
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Everest, Mountain Without Mercy
• Broughton Coburn
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Spectacularly photographed, this book is an account of the making of the IMAX film on Everest, including an account of the 1996 disaster.
(HML20, $24.00)
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The Famished Road
• Ben Okri
• LITERATURE
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The haunting, Booker Prize-winning novel set in a Yoruba village in modern Nigeria.
(WAF39, $15.95)
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Give Us This Day
• Sidney Stewart
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Captured in Bataan in 1942, Stewart endured three years in captivity, recounted in this harrowing, now-classic tale of human will.
(SEA19, $13.95)
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Heart of Darkness, with Congo Diary
• Joseph Conrad
• LITERATURE
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One of the century's most important works, this short story tells of the harrowing journey Marlow takes into the Belgian congo.
(AFR46, $7.95)
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Hungry Ghosts, Mao's Secret Famine
• Jasper Becker
• HISTORY
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The definitive work on the devastating famine that overtook China in the 1950s and 1960s.
(CHN99, $19.00)
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In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
• Nathaniel Philbrick
• HISTORY
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The seafaring tale of fearsome whales, cannibalism and sturdy 19th-century Nantucketers; a history of the true life events that inspired Melville's "Moby Dick" -- and a fascinating history of 19th-century society in Nantucket.
(OCE47, $15.00)
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Into the Wild
• Jon Krakauer
• EXPLORATION
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The gripping tale of a young man searching for experience, wilderness and self, who meets his end in the wilds north of Mt. McKinley.
(ALA52, $13.95)
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Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
• Jon Krakauer
• EXPLORATION
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A best-selling, minute-by-minute account of the 1996 disaster on Everest.
(HML08, $26.95)
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
• Erik Larson
• Isaac Monroe Cline
• HISTORY
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A blend of history and science that tells the story of the devastating hurricane of 1900.
(TEX03, $14.95)
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K2, Triumph and Tragedy
• Jim Curran
• EXPLORATION
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This is a tense account of disaster on the world's second highest mountain in 1986. The author was on the mountain when 13 climbers in 9 different expeditions died.
(PKN05, $15.00)
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The Last River, The Tragic Race for Shangri-La
• Todd Balf
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A thrilling account of a first-ever descent into the heart of Tibet.
(TBT44, $14.00)
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Ordeal by Hunger, The Story of the Donner Party
• George Rippey Stewart
• HISTORY
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The definitive account of the Donner Party.
(USW414, $14.95)
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Plagues and Peoples
• William McNeill
• HISTORY
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This book traces the waves of epidemics that raged through Europe.
(EUR26, $15.95)
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Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
• John M. Barry
• HISTORY
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A sweeping history of the devastating Mississippi flood of 1927, delving deeply into the race relations, agriculture and politics of the time.
(USS48, $17.00)
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Through a Night of Horrors
• Shelley Henley Kelley
• Casey Edward Greene
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Letter and memoirs documenting the disastrous storm of 1900.
(TEX04, $24.95)
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Titanic, A Survivor's Story and the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic
• Archibald Gracie
• HISTORY
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A vivid eyewitness account of the disaster.
(OCE27, $14.95)
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Wake of the Invercauld, Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great-Granddaughter's Pilgrimage
• Madelene Ferguson Allen
• EXPLORATION
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Great-granddaughter of one of the three survivors of the wreck of the Invercauld, Allen interweaves her own research and travels to the Auklands with excerpts from Holding's 19th-century diary of the shipwreck. With modern and archival photographs.
(NZL31, $60.00)
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The Worst Journey in the World
• Apsley Cherry-Garrard
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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Cherry-Garrard's epic midwinter jaunt to an emperor penguin rookery is just a warm-up for the main event: Scott's doomed last expedition.
(ANT23, $18.00)
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