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Love the adrenaline rush but appreciate viewing it from a comfortable seat? Check out these titles of people living on the edge.
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond... |
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No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica
Liv Arnesen - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback
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The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft's dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their... |
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planetMore people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep... |
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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
Laurence Gonzales - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet. As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed... |
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The Mountain: My Time on Everest
Ed Viesturs - Touchstone; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak.In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber... |
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Joan Druett - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave... |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
Format: Audiobook
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When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers... |
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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
Kalee Thompson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a remote Coast Guard station more than eight hundred miles away, the men on the ship's... |
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Lost in Shangri-La
Mitchell Zuckoff - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lost world man-eating tribesmen lush andimpenetrable jungles stranded American fliers one of them a dame withgreat gams for heavens sake a startling rescue mission This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff Whewwhat an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying... |
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sebastian Junger - Norton
Format: Print book
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The bestselling book that became the blockbuster film starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Diane Lane. In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester,... |
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Andrea Pitzer
Format: Hardcover
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The human story has always been one of perseverance - often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar... |
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