Falcon Guides, 2018. — 392 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4930-3234-1. The Ultimate Guide to Whitewater Rafting and River Camping introduces new rafters to the skills, equipment, and knowledge required to mount a multiday whitewater rafting trip. Rafting equipment, skills, and techniques have changed drastically in recent years, and this book provides the latest information on equipment...
Oneworld Publications, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-1786070333 (US ed.), ISBN: 978-1786071989 (UK ed.), ISBN: 978-1786072078 (India ed.), ISBN: 978-1786070340 (ebook). Pradyumna Kumar, known as PK, was born into a poor, untouchable family in a small village in eastern India. All his life he has kept a palm leaf bearing an astrologer’s prophecy: “You will marry a girl who is not...
Anchor Canada, 2009. — 256 p. — eISBN 978-0307372062. The true story of three enthusiastic (but inexperienced) adventurers who attempt to become the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon River–all 4,007 miles--and (barely) live to tell about it. To a trio of twenty-something adrenaline junkies, it sounded like an irresistible challenge: tackle the Amazon with...
Master Publishing, 2012 — 320 p. — eISBN 978-9966052018. In August 1986, Michael Asher and Mariantonietta Peru set out to achieve the impossible: crossing from west to east of the Sahara. They traversed the vast lands of northern Africa long before ‘Arab Spring’ became word of mouth and threw the region into turmoil. Newly married, Asher and his wife go through a parallel...
Summersdale, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1849531344, eISBN 978-1848394667. Could you ski to the South Pole? That was the challenge that British Adventurer, Felicity Aston put to women from around the Commonwealth as she set out to create the most international all-female expedition ever to the South Pole. The team would not be experienced explorers but 'ordinary' women who...
Doubleday, 2018. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0385539883 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0385539890 (ebook). In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert....
Terrace Books, 2006. — 182 p. — ISBN: 978-0299218447. For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts Bledsoe’s wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the...
Falcon Guides, 2016. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1493025978. Backpacker Magazine’s The Complete Guide to Backpacking combines and distills the most useful and relevant skills necessary for backpacking in one easy to use guide, from the most respected authority on backpacking — Backpacker magazine. From detailed descriptions of what to pack and how to pack it, to navigation and...
University of California Press, 2013 — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-0520266544, eISBN 978-0520954557. Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in...
Epicenter Press, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1935347576 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1935347651 (ebook). The Ocean is calling me. This is my Journey. With these words, in the spring of 2010, Susan Marie Conrad scaled her world down to an 18-foot sea kayak and launched a solo journey that took her north to Alaska. With no sense of where she belonged in space and unreconciled feelings...
Arcade Publishing, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1611451122. This is the incredible true story of one man’s heroic battle against impossible odds, a tale of pain and anguish, bravery and utter solitude, a tale that ends in a victory not only over the implacable ocean but over himself as well. At the age of forty-five, Gerard d’Aboville set out to row across the Pacific Ocean from...
Ballantine Books, 2011. — 268 p. — ISBN: 978-0345523198, eISBN 978-0345523211. In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington’s Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse — the...
Simon & Schuster UK, 2013. — 496 p. — ISBN: 978-1471127854. There are only few human beings who can adapt, survive and thrive in the coldest regions on earth. And below a certain temperature, death is inevitable. Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life exploring and working in conditions of extreme cold. The loss of many of his fingers to frostbite is a testament to the...
Knopf, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1101875681, ISBN: 978-1101875698 (ebook). For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z a remarkable tale of survival and solitude the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty seven years In 1986 twenty year old...
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1855. — (1st edition. — Facsimile: 2nd edition - 1856; 3rd edition - 1860; 5th edition - 1872). This engaging compendium of advice ('shifts and contrivances') to travellers and explorers 'in wild parts' went through many editions. Galton collected in it both his own practical experiences, gathered while travelling in South-West Africa, but...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. — 314 p. — ISBN: 978-1602393707. A harrowing true story of adventure and survival. Four backpackers meet in Bolivia and set off into the rainforest on a dream expedition, lured by the promise of uncharted villages and forgotten tribes hidden in places tourists only dream of seeing. But what begins as the adventure of a lifetime quickly becomes a...
3 Auflage — KOMPASS-Karten, 2008. — 496 p. — ISBN: 978-3854916048. Die KOMPASS Wander-Atlanten überzeugen durch: ausgewogene Tourenwahl für jede Kondition, mindestens 100 Tourenvorschläge, eine DVD aller Touren mit Inhaltsverzeichnis, eingebauter Suchfunktion, Blattschnitt und Diashow.
William Morrow & Company, 2012. — 416 p. Bear Grylls has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on a remote island off of Britain's windswept coast, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn't long before the young explorer was sneaking out to lead all-night climbing expeditions. As a teenager at Eton College, Bear found his...
Macmillan Australia, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1760782344 (EPUB). Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she arrived at the South Pole. This is the story of an adventurer who never gave up - who set herself incredible challenges beyond her years...
William Collins, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0008129347, ISBN: 978-0008131944 (ebook). So what’s a Grand Adventure – it is the most life-changing, career-enhancing, personality-forging, fun adventure of your life. Following on from his popular Microadventures, in Grand Adventures Alastair Humphreys shines a spotlight on the real-life things that get in the way: stuff like time,...
William Collins, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0007548033, ISBN: 978-0007548040 (ebook). Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. So what’s a microadventure? It’s close to home, cheap, simple, short and 100% guaranteed...
HarperCollins Australia, 2015. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0733332654 (paperbook), ISBN: 978-1460701072 (EPUB). A new edition to mark the centenary Ernest Shackleton's epic 1916 journey across 1300 kms of hostile ocean in a tiny, leaking boat and unmapped ice and snow to reach a rescue station by British-Australian explorer Tim Jarvis, who recreated 'Shackleton's Epic' in 2012 Sir...
Wild Dingo Press, 2020. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-1925893199 (print), ISBN: 978-1925893205 (EPUB), ISBN: 978-1925893076 (epdf). Take a couple of vintage cars and their owners’ determination to drive them on a pilgrimage from Australia to Finland, and you have a fascinating story about some foolhardy, adventurous blokes, told through photos and the distillation of blogs and diary...
HarperPress, 2013. — 306 p. — ISBN: 978-0007508143 (ebook). A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby...
Harper Collins, 2011. — 192 p. Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson’s adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles. Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go on an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a forty-two-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. — 391 p. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a million puffins for company, he found...
Summersdale, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1849531276, eISBN 978-1848394490. Four-thousand miles of unpredictable ocean, 500 chocolate bars, 124 days of physical exertion, three Guinness World Records, and one incredible journey. On April 1, 2009, brave 23-year-old Sarah Outen embarked on an ambitious solo voyage across the Indian Ocean in her rowing boat, Dippers. Powered by the...
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN (UK) 978-1857889192, ISBN (US) 978-1473644618. On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling, kayaking and rowing across Europe, Asia, the Pacific, North America, the Atlantic and eventually...
Bloomsbury PublishingЮ 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 9781408869789. When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But it wasn't long before she was carefully plotting a route that would cover 45,000 miles – almost twice the circumference of the earth – coasting along the world's most remarkable railways;...
Simon & Schuster/TED Books, 2016. — 145 p. — ISBN: 978-1501119477, ISBN: 978-1501119484 (ebook). In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon — where rivers boil and legends come to life. When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious...
Virgin Books, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 978-1905264568. In April 2008, Ed Stafford began his attempt to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the River Amazon. Nearly two and a half years later, he had crossed the whole of South America to reach the mouth of the colossal river. With danger a constant companion - outwitting alligators, jaguars, pit vipers and...
Luath Press, 2014. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-1910021651. In 50 Shades of Hillwalking, Ralph Storer takes a quirky look at the peculiar pursuit of messing about on mountains and presents us with 50 personal hillwalking experiences. Walking, climbing, mountain biking, caving Ralph has tried it all, but admits to expertise only in the lost art of festering . With room also for...
Little, Brown and Company, 2009. — 232 p. — ISBN: 9780316042918. From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming...
Little, Brown and Company, 2009. — 232 p. — ISBN: 9780316042918. From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 368 p. — ISBN: 9780316215282. An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat? A bestselling...
Little, Brown and Company:, 2013 — 368 p. — ISBN: 9780316215282 An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat? A bestselling...
Falcon Guides, 2019. — 408 p. — ISBN: 978-1493039883 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1493039890 (ebook). Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside’s true gift is in chronicling misadventure. The Darkest Places chronicles mysterious disappearances, unsolved murders, and deadly disasters, taking us to far-flung places no sane person would want to go.
Oolichan Books, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0889823235 (paperback). Crocodiles and Ice is a scientist/adventurer's journey into a Consciousness Revolution based on a deep, reciprocal communication with the Earth. The book highlights Jon Turk's award-winning polar expedition circumnavigating Ellesmere Island, as well as other, lesser known passages. But, more critically, Turk...
Little, Brown Spark, 2019. — 321 p. — ISBN: 978-0316414432. For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 206 p. — ISBN10: 0061256765, ISBN13: 9780061256769. Arelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Steve, Vollmann trawls the secretive waters of a unique underground lifestyle — subjecting both our...
Amsterdam Publishers, 2019. — 218 p. — ISBN: 978-9493056152 (paperback), ISBN: 978-9493056145 (ebook). Breaking Free tells the enthralling true story of world traveler Jeffrey Vonk. Having visited 60 countries, and being pretty fearless by nature, his travelogue does not disappoint when it comes to delivering raw, unique stories. Backpacking can lead you to places that you...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1510710047, eISBN 978-1510710061. Writing down the things you wouldd like to see and do before you die can be a fun experience. But simply writing a Bucket List and never actually doing anything on the list is a lesson in futility and frustration with yourself.Why can't you ever reach your goals? Don't beat yourself up - get out...
4xOverland LTD, 2015. — 306 p. — ISBN: 978-1506099323. Tired of mortgage payments, thirty-something Andrew and Gwynn sold nearly everything they owned but their Siamese cat and escaped their humdrum nine-to-five existence for life in paradise — a tiny island accessible only by boat or air in one of the remotest spots on Earth: the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Woefully...
Dundurn, 2018. — 713 p. Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from firsthand experience that nature can neither be beaten or...
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1471135668 (ebook). The Nile, one of the world’s great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian adventurers David Livingstone, John Hanning Speke, and Henry Morton Stanley, the river has seduced men and led them into wild adventures. English writer,...
Penguin Press, 2015 — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0698410169. Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia’s great rivers that reveals the region’s essential history and culture. The world’s ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers journalist Dominic Ziegler a...
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