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What do readers say about Into the Wild?
reporting the known facts exhilarating and disturbing documentary or journalist’s investigation a magazine articleKrakauer's page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cas... More details on Into the Wild
Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a gre...
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What do readers say about Endurance?
true life adventure modern-day adventure story an emotional historical tale amazing adventure storyExperience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age: The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole.
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail f... More details on Endurance
The order to abandon ship was given at 5 P.M. For most of the men, however, no order was needed because by then everybody knew that the ship was done and that it was time to give up trying to save her...
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What do readers say about Touching The Void?
a mountaineering disaster gripping and moving a harrowing tale mountains after climbing accidentJoe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell an... More details on Touching The Void
I was lying in my sleeping bag, staring at the light filtering through the red and green fabric of the dome tent. Simon was snoring loudly, occasionally twitching in his dream world. We could have bee...
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What do readers say about Under the Banner of Heaven?
religion based violence the power of religion tedious and poorly organized modern day murdersThis extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake ... More details on Under the Banner of Heaven
And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal wor...
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What do readers say about A Walk in the Woods?
first person narrative entertaining & educational easy and flowing witty and humorousNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
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A sign announced that this was no ordinary footpath, but the celebrated Appalachian Trail. Running more than 2,100 miles along America’s eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian ...
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What do readers say about The River of Doubt?
nonfiction narrative thriller repetitive and pedestrian top-shelf story telling edge-of-your-seat armchair adventureAt once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
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THE LINE OUTSIDE MADISON Square Garden started to form at 5:30 p.m., just as an orange autumn sun was setting in New York City on Halloween Eve, 1912. The doors were not scheduled to open for another ...
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What do readers say about Miracle in the Andes?
first person narrative a third person account life-affirming and inspiring gripping and detailedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes-and one man's quest to lead them all home.
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IT WAS FRIDAY, the thirteenth of October. We joked about that—flying over the Andes on such an unlucky day, but young men make those kinds of jokes so easily. Our flight had originated one day earlier...
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What do readers say about Alive?
matter of fact style heart breaking and uplifting heartbreaking & inspiring work good story of survival#1 New York Times Bestseller
"No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one's own life and its value." - New Republic
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Uruguay, one of the smallest countries on the South American continent, was founded on the eastern bank of the River Plate as a buffer state between the emerging giants of Brazil and Argentina. Geogra...
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What do readers say about Wild?
engaging and exciting intensely personal book brutally honest book picturesque but unsentimental descriptions#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impu... More details on Wild
My solo three-month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the long...
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What do readers say about The Lost City of Z?
crisp and engaging a bookclub pick exploration in the amazon exploring the amazonThe #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless peri... More details on The Lost City of Z
On a cold January day in 1925, a tall, distinguished gentleman hurried across the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, toward the SS Vauban, a five-hundred-and-eleven-foot ocean liner bound for Rio de Janeir...
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