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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
Author: Mark J. Plotkin
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice has been called "one of the greatest adventure stories ever told." Author Mark Plotkin, chief ethnobotanist for Conservat...more
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Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly R
Author: Tim Cahill
Tim Cahill is an intrepid voyager and has ventured to the most mind-boggling and extreme of locations. Here, he sets forth again into the wild and wonderful....more
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The Surgeon's Mate: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Bo
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Jack Aubrey, Post Captain in the British Royal Navy, is suffused with happiness. The Shannon's engagement with the U.S. Chesapeake off the New Eng...more
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The Fortune of War: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Bo
Author: Patrick O'Brian
The H.M.S. Leopard pulled into the bay of Pulo Batang looking more like a shabby merchant ship that a man-of-war. The crew had endured a calamitous voyag...more
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Sharpe's Trafalgar: Book IV of the Sharpe Ser
Author: Bernard Cornwell
It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India. However, his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by a French warship, the Revenant, ...more
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Crossing the Craton: Annals of the Former Wor
Author: John McPhee
With his Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World, John McPhee explores not only the richly varied surface of the United States, but the geologi...more
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H.M.S. Surprise: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book
Author: Patrick O'Brian
At the opening of his third novel in an ongoing adventure series by Patrick O'Brian, Jack Aubrey is cruising off Cape Sicie when his friend Stephen Maturin (mor...more
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Flight of Passage
Author: Rinker Buck
In the summer of 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck - 2 teenaged schoolboys from New Jersey - bought a dilapidated Piper Club airplane for $300, rebuild it, and pil...more
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Shadow Divers: Adventure of Two Americans Who
Author: Robert Kurson
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hal...more
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Shadow Divers: Two Americans Who Risked Every
Author: Robert Kurson
In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New J...more
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain
Author: Nando Parrado and Vince Rau
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to dis...more
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Into Thin Air (Unabridged)
Author: Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Eiger Dr...more
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Taking on the World (Unabridged)
Author: Ellen MacArthur
On February 11th, 2001, Ellen MacArthur sailed into port in France, completing the Vendee Globe, the world's toughest race. Alone and unsupported, she had spent...more
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Ext
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
It's a survival story almost too incredible to believe, but it's the extraordinary true tale of endurance in the harshest environment on earth. Sir Ernest Shack...more
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Far Eastern Tales (Unabridged)
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former Britis...more
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Dark
Author: Candice Millard
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing...more
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley a
Author: Martin Dugard
Dr. Livingstone, I presume? So goes the signature introduction of New York Herald star journalist Henry Morton Stanley to renowned explorer Dr. David Livingston...more
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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most
Author: Nick Heil
In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to ...more
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Full Circle: A Pacific Journey with Michael P
Author: Michael Palin
Following the hugely popular and successful Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, Michael Palin set off to meet another challenge: an anti...more
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Eragon
Author: Christopher Paolini
When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. Bu...more
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