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My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
by Mark Adams
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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 Kate Harris
Published Jun 2019
Read ReviewsA brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Roadan illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.
by Robert Olmstead
Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsA gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction--the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as the only route to economic solvency. And the intimate story of how that hunt changed two people forever.
by Joanna Scott
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsA gripping novel about a seemingly charmed marriage and a mysterious disappearance at sea.
by Owen Matthews
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsFrom the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders.
by Hampton Sides
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsNew York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age. Winner of the 2014 BookBrowse Award for Nonfiction.
by Peter Stark
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsIn 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast of North America. More than half of his men died violent deaths. The others survived starvation, madness, and greed to shape the destiny of a continent.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
by Timothy Egan
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsHow a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.
by Tony Horwitz
Published Aug 2003
Read Reviews'Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific.'
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