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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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Laurence Gonzales
In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see your world.
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
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Susan Casey
Susan Casey was a journalist who became enthralled with the world of the great white shark after seeing a BBC documentary on the subject. She spent three weeks in the forbidding waters around the Farallon Islands (aka "the devil's teeth") just off the coast of San Francisco, where the sharks go every fall to prey on the hapless sea lions that live ...
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Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
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J Maarten Troost
A rip-roaringly funny account of life in the farthest corners of the world, "Getting Stoned with Savages" again reveals the wry appreciation of the absurd and infectious joy of discovery that make Troost one of the most engaging and original travel writers around.
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The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest
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Bear Grylls
Author featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show See the author's interview with Oprah: http: //www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200701/tows_past_20070131.jhtml THE KID WHO CLIMBED EVEREST is a tale of courage and determination. Bear's quest for funding for his expedition, his seventy days on Everest's southeast face, and a narrow brush with death after a ...
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Natural Disasters
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Patrick Leon Abbott
This book focuses on how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. It is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works. Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: energy sources underlying disasters; ...
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K2, the Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story of Disaster and Survival on the World's Second Highest Mountain
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Charles Houston, Robert H Bates, Jim Wickwire (Foreword by)
Then on the descent, tragedy struck, and how they made it back to safety is renowned in the annals of climbing. "K2 - The Savage Mountain" captures this sensational tale with an unmatched power that has earned this book its place as one of the classics of mountaineering literature.
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Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others
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Bill McMillon
A book for anyone who is looking for short-term working vacations that offer no pay but plenty of personal enrichment and an opportunity to serve others.
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Pillars of Hercules
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Paul Theroux
Theroux narrates a year-long trek around the coast of the Mediterranean.
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Cry of the Kalahari
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Mark Owens
After spending seven years in the Kalahari Desert, the authors provide a beautiful documentary examining wildlife in the Kalahari. Their adventure is the focus of a National Geographic special for television airing in January insert.
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Touching the Void
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Joe Simpson
This is the true story of friends Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, two experienced mountain climbers who met tragedy and triumph in the Andes. At the 21,000-foot peak of the mountain, Joe Simpson slipped and fell off an ice ledge, breaking his leg in the process. Although Simon Yates struggled to save Simpson, a harsh blizzard, and the fact that his ...
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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J Maarten Troost
When the author's wife was posted to the small island nation of Kiribati in the South Pacific, their culture shock was extreme. Expecting a Gauguin-esque paradise, they actually found a hot, filthy, polluted, isolated, and forgotten place with almost no amenities. After two years of battling bureaucracy and, often, simply trying to find something ...
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Looking for a Ship
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McPhee
McPhee writes about the 42-day voyage of a merchant ship, from Charleston, South Carolina to the west coast of South America.
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Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas
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Lois Pryce
Pryce spent her weekdays working at the BBC stuck in a career rut, but she also led a parallel life as a biker with overwhelming wanderlust. Follow her hilarious adventures as she travels by motorcycle from Alaska to the southernmost tip of Argentina.
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The World's Most Dangerous Places
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Robert Young Pelton
Pelton's book is a choice travel guide for the adventurer looking for more than umbrellas in their drinks when they go abroad. In this compilation of statistics, anecdotes, and advice, Robert Young Pelton informs readers of where all the hot spots--i.e. war zones--are, to how to get around in them, and how to get back out in one piece.
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Kon-Tiki
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Thor Heyerdahl
Photographs illustrate the author's account of his voyage from Peru to Tahiti on a balsa raft to test a theory concerning the origins of the Polynesian race.
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The Life of My Choice
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Wilfred Thesiger
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of ...
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Last Flight Out: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fishing
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Randy Wayne White
Whether he's looking for wild orangutans on Borneo or diving off the coast of South Africa, the author of "Batfishing in the Rainforest" is one of America's most adventurous travelers. Now he's back with a brand-new collection of essays on his latest excursions.
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Himalaya
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Michael Palin
Michael Palin's travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back at his adventurous best tie-ing in with a major BBC TV series. The book/series will travel through many countries little known to the West, providing opportunities for Palinesque adventures to please the large and loyal audience who followed" 80 Days, ...
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Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea
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Frank DeLaney
In a gripping, absorbing narrative that highlights one mans outstanding fortitude and sense of duty, acclaimed bestselling author Delaney tells the full story of the S.S. "Flying Enterprise" and its captains unmatched bravery in the face of a violent storm.
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The Great ARC: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
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John Keay
A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest. The graphic story of the measurement of a meridian, or longitudinal, arc extending from the tip of the ...
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Outdoor Survival Skills
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Larry D. Olsen
This work provides the wilderness adventurer with the information needed to survive in nature, without the need for expenisve equipment. It draws from a knowledge of the land, and contains information on techniques for creating shelter, fire, tools, water, and food from plants and animals.
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Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
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Piers Paul Read
On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The ...
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Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
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Jim Malusa
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of "anti-expeditions" to the "anti-summits." His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia, along Moses' route to the Dead Sea, and from Moscow to ...
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Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of the Southwest
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J Frank Dobie
1930. From In the Beginning: These tales are not creations of mine. They belong to the soil and to the people of the soil. Like all things that belong, they have their roots deep in the place of their being, deep too in the past. They are an outgrowth; they embody the geniuses of divergent races and peoples who even while fiercely opposing each ...
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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
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Pico Iyer
Using the same sympathy and eye for the absurd that characterized his "Video Night in Kathmandu", the traveller Pico Iyer describes countries ranging from Paraguay to Iceland, North Korea to Argentian, Cuba to Bhutan, and Vietnam to Australia - places which many people make a point of avoiding and which he calls "lonely places". In a tightly ...
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