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Across the Top of the World

Across the Top of the World


by James P. Delgado

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this richly illustrated history by James Delgado covers the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage, from the disaster of the Franklin Expedition, to the triumph of Roald Amundsen, all the way up to present-day research. (ARC61, $19.95)

Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors


by Piers Paul Read

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

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)

Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath

Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath


by Maurice Herzog

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

Conrad Anker provides a new foreword for this new 60th-anniversary edition of Maurice Herzog's classic, dictated from his hospital bed in Paris. French minister of youth and sport in the 1960s and former mayor of Chamonix, Herzog recovered nicely (he's 102 in 2011). (HML07, $16.95)

Aristophene's Lysistrata


by Aristophanes | Nicholas Rudall

  • LITERATURE
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 65 PAGES

Aristophen's great anti-war drama. (GRE79, $9.95)

Desert Survival Skills


by David Alloway

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

A friendly, humorous guide to short-term and long-term survival in the desert. (DES06, $26.95)

Endurance, An Epic of Polar Adventure

Endurance, An Epic of Polar Adventure


by Frank Worsley | Patrick O'Brian

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A 1931 memoir by the captain of the Endurance, the companion to Shackleton's Boat Journey. (ANT73, $15.95)

Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage


by Alfred Lansing

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 280 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

Lansing's gripping day-by-day story of Shackleton's legendary perseverance is essential reading for any Antarctic traveler; it captures all the fortitude, drama and cheer of this most famous Antarctic expedition. (ANT03, $14.95)

Epic, Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks

Epic, Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks


by Clint Willis

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 342 PAGES

A terrific collection of great writing about mountaineering. (HML37, $17.95)

Everest, Mountain Without Mercy


by Broughton Coburn

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

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)

The Famished Road


by Ben Okri

  • LITERATURE
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 500 PAGES

The haunting, Booker Prize-winning novel set in a Yoruba village in modern Nigeria. (WAF39, $16.95)

Ghosts of Cape Sabine, The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition

Ghosts of Cape Sabine, The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition


by Leonard F. Guttridge

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Abandoned to their fate, all but six of the 25 men of the Greely Expedition died before their much-delayed rescue at "Starvation Camp" on Pym Island in the Canadian Arctic in 1883. (ARC71, $26.95)

Give Us This Day


by Sidney Stewart

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 254 PAGES

Captured in Bataan in 1942, Stewart endured three years in captivity, recounted in this harrowing, now-classic tale of human will. (SEA19, $14.95)

Heart of Darkness, with Congo Diary

Heart of Darkness, with Congo Diary


by Joseph Conrad

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 136 PAGES

One of the century's most important works, this short story tells of the harrowing journey Marlow takes into the Belgian congo. (AFR46, $9.00)

Hungry Ghosts, Mao's Secret Famine


by Jasper Becker

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

The definitive work on the devastating famine that overtook China in the 1950s and 1960s. (CHN99, $21.99)

I May Be Some Time, Ice and the English Imagination

I May Be Some Time, Ice and the English Imagination


by Francis Spufford

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 372 PAGES

An imaginative history of the myths, symbols and culture of British polar exploration -- and especially its focus on the martyr, suffering and death with a stiff upper lip. Fascinating. (ANT58, $19.95)

In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex


by Nathaniel Philbrick

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 302 PAGES

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, $16.00)

Into the Wild

Into the Wild


by Jon Krakauer

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

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, $14.95)

Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster


by Jon Krakauer

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1997
  • HARD COVER
  • 256 PAGES

A best-selling, minute-by-minute account of the 1996 disaster on Everest. (HML08, $28.00)

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History


by Erik Larson | Isaac Monroe Cline

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

A blend of history and science that tells the story of the devastating hurricane of 1900. (TEX03, $15.95)

K2, Triumph and Tragedy

K2, Triumph and Tragedy


by Jim Curran

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1997
  • PAPER

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)

The Last River, The Tragic Race for Shangri-La

The Last River, The Tragic Race for Shangri-La


by Todd Balf

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 293 PAGES

A thrilling account of a first-ever descent into the heart of Tibet. (TBT44, $14.00)

Ordeal by Hunger, The Story of the Donner Party


by George Rippey Stewart

  • HISTORY
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 392 PAGES

The definitive account of the Donner Party. (USW414, $14.95)

Plagues and Peoples

Plagues and Peoples


by William McNeill

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 365 PAGES

This book traces the waves of epidemics that raged through Europe. (EUR26, $17.00)

Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America


by John M. Barry

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 524 PAGES

A sweeping history of the devastating Mississippi flood of 1927, delving deeply into the race relations, agriculture and politics of the time. (USS48, $18.00)

Through a Night of Horrors


by Shelley Henley Kelley | Casey Edward Greene

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2000
  • HARD COVER
  • 224 PAGES

Letter and memoirs documenting the disastrous storm of 1900. (TEX04, $24.95)

Titanic, A Survivor's Story and the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic


by Archibald Gracie

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 365 PAGES

A vivid eyewitness account of the disaster. (OCE27, $16.95)

Wake of the Invercauld, Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great-Granddaughter's Pilgrimage


by Madelene Ferguson Allen

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1997
  • HARD COVER
  • 256 PAGES

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, $85.00)

The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World


by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 573 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

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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