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An Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica
by Ann Bancroft, Liv Arnesen
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by Caroline Van Hemert
Published Feb 2020
Read ReviewsThe gripping story of a biologist's journey from Washington State to high above the Arctic Circle - traveling across remote and rugged terrain solely by human power - to rediscover birds, the natural world, and her own love of science.
by Elizabeth Becker
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsElizabeth Becker investigates global travel industry practices in an eye-opening examination of this $6.5 trillion phenomenon.
by Matthew Goodman
Published Mar 2014
Read Reviews1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite directions, each determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days.
by Tori Murden McClure
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsIn June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. It was a journey that affected her life in unexpected ways for years to come.
by Richard Preston
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsRichard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: The world of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained the coast redwood...
by Sebastian Junger
Published Jun 2000
Read Reviews"Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost".
by William Langewiesche
Published Aug 1999
Read ReviewsLangewiesche shares his pilot's-eye view of flight - exploring the inner world of a sky that remains as exotic and revealing as the most foreign destination.
by Caroline Alexander
Published Nov 1998
Read ReviewsThe Endurance thrillingly recounts one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration--perhaps the greatest of them all.
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