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The World's Toughest Adventure Race
by John Balzar
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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 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 Kevin Patterson
Published Jul 2008
Read ReviewsBorn on the tundra in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at the age of ten, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and evacuated to a southern sanitarium. When she returns home six years later, she finds a radically different world, where the traditionally rootless tribes have uneasily congregated in small ...
by Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsAs spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm. His translucent prose is a sparkling and moving record of a bygone way of life.
by Seth Kantner
Published Aug 2005
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by Sue Henry
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsOnce again, the remarkable Sue Henry brilliantly evokes a magnificent northern landscape -- and chills the blood with a riveting tale of suspicion, suspense, and lives found and lost on an unforgettable journey.
by William Least Heat-Moon
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsThe preeminent chronicler of American back roads recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea.
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