Category: TRUE LIFE ADVENTURE

C. S. Forester's Captain Horatio Hornblower eludes an American privateer and Richard Woodman brings Nathaniel Drinkwater out of retirement in this collection of twenty-one sea stories, fifteen of them written especially for this volume. From the Hawaiian coast to the shores of England, at Trafalgar, at Copenhagen, and on the Nile, daring exploits and breathtaking encounters quicken these pages by celebrated writers like David Donachie, Jacland Marmur, William Hope Hodgson, Kenneth Bulmer, Nigel Brown, Harriet Hudson, Peter T. Garratt, Peter Tremayne, Derek Wilson, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

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Publisher: National Geographic : September 2009

Seller ID: 230433

ISBN-13: 9781426205460

Binding: Trade Paperback

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National Geographic Adventure has published the best work by today's finest writers, and this tenth anniversary anthology assembles an elite corps of authors that includes Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Caputo, and two dozen others. These reporters have voyaged to the ends of the earth to bring back the decade's most thrilling, eccentric, and extraordinary tales. But the pieces collected here do more than paint a portrait of the world's most extreme and fascinating environments--they also explore important questions about adventure in the 21st century. These stories rocket readers...
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Adrift [Movie tie-in]: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

By: Ashcraft, Tami Oldham

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Dey Street Books : May 2018

Seller ID: 182038

ISBN-13: 9780062868206

Binding: Trade Paperback

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New York Times Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Korm kur (Everest)."An inspirational and empowering read."--Shailene WoodleyYoung and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fianc Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hur...
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Men at Sea

By: Aymar, Brandt

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Crown : August 1988

Seller ID: 98851

ISBN-13: 9780517569184

Binding: Hardcover

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No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women And Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica

By: Bancroft, Ann,Arnesen, Liv

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Da Capo Press : September 2003

Seller ID: 98921

ISBN-13: 9780738207940

Binding: Hardcover

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In February 2001, former schoolteachers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen became the first women to cross the Antarctic continent on foot. Against all odds, they walked, skied, or ice-sailed for nearly three months in temperatures as cold as -35F, towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1700 miles of terrain riddled with rotten ice and deadly, hidden crevasses. Haunted by the failures of those who had attempted the crossing before them, they raced to complete the journey before the harsh Antarctic winter set in and 24 hours of daylight became 24 hours of impenetrable darkness. Though modern te...
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The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado

By: Bass, Rick

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Mariner Books : June 1997

Seller ID: 169823

ISBN-13: 9780395857007

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Guide to the World's Greatest Treasures

By: Bradley, Michael,Streuli, Ted

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble : January 2005

Seller ID: 179082

ISBN-13: 9780760772140

Binding: Hardcover

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Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage

By: Buckley Jr., William F.

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Random House : May 1987

Seller ID: 98754

ISBN-13: 9780394557816

Binding: Hardcover

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Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea

By: Callahan, Steven

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books : September 1996

Seller ID: 230248

ISBN-13: 9780345410153

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey Across Russia (Traveler)

By: Cheuse, Alan

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr : April 1989

Seller ID: 136802

ISBN-13: 9780871133007

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Great Escapes: The Stories Behind 50 Remarkable Journeys to Freedom

By: Chrisitanson, Scott

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Firefly Books : September 2009

Seller ID: 163811

ISBN-13: 9781554075065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A stunning visual record of the world's most audacious and compelling escapes and escape attempts. Whether escaping from a prison or evading an enemy, individuals have shown extraordinary courage and inventiveness during their bids for freedom. Great Escapes relates fascinating details about the 50 most remarkable escapes and escape attempts, including: Chris Ryan, who escaped from Iraq during the 1992 Gulf War as part of the Bravo Two Zero squad. Aron Ralston, the hiker who sawed off his own arm after being trapped for five days under a boulder in the Colorado wilderness. The Dalai Lama, the...
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The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team

By: Clifford, Hal

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Mountaineers Books : February 1999

Seller ID: 251853

ISBN-13: 9780898866339

Binding: Trade Paperback

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* Offers an inside view of the dangers, emotions, and politics of a mountain rescue group * Covers one of the most publicized mountain rescue operations of the decade: Express Creek To write fairly about mountain rescuers, journalist Hal Clifford was told, you must become one yourself. And so began the most challenging assignment of his career -- in the wilderness around Aspen, Colorado, where each year the destinies of a handful of skiers, hikers, and climbers intersect with those of their rescuers. The Falling Season is Clifford's thrilling account of an insider's life and time on one of A...
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Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

By: Cobb, Norma,Sasser, Charles W.,Sasser, Charles

Price: $5.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : February 2003

Seller ID: 254696

ISBN-13: 9780312283797

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the Lower Forty-eight and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fairbanks near the Arctic Circle where grizzlies outnumbered humans twenty to one. In addition to fierce winters and predatory animals, the Alaskan frontier drew the more unsavory elements of society's fringes. From the beginning, the Cobbs found themselves pitted in a life or dea...
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Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

By: Cobb, Norma,Sasser, Charles W.,Sasser, Charles

Price: $5.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : February 2003

Seller ID: 254714

ISBN-13: 9780312283797

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the Lower Forty-eight and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fairbanks near the Arctic Circle where grizzlies outnumbered humans twenty to one. In addition to fierce winters and predatory animals, the Alaskan frontier drew the more unsavory elements of society's fringes. From the beginning, the Cobbs found themselves pitted in a life or dea...
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Category: TRUE LIFE ADVENTURE