True Adventure Outdoor
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Our Southern Highlanders: Introduction By George Ellison
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Horace Kephart
4.18 avg rating — 652 ratings 3. 
Strangers In The Storm: Love And Survival On Mount Rainier
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Jared Rund
3.89 avg rating — 104 ratings 4. 
Death & Survival in Glacier National Park: True Tales of Tragedy, Courage, & Misadventure
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C.W. Guthrie
3.85 avg rating — 158 ratings 4. 
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
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Alex Dehgan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 400 ratings 
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The Third Pole: My Everest climb to find the truth about Mallory and Irvine
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Mark Synnott
4.13 avg rating — 4,206 ratings 8. 
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating — 29,324 ratings 9. 
A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
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Mark Derr
3.51 avg rating — 95 ratings 10. 
Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent
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Ted Morgan
3.79 avg rating — 237 ratings 11. 
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
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Joshua Foer
4.23 avg rating — 8,120 ratings 
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Expedition to Mystery Mountain: Adventures of a Bushwhacking, Knickerbocker-wearing Woman 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbats Mazeno Ridge
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Sandy Allan
4.26 avg rating — 355 ratings 
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The Year: Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record
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Dave Barter
4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings 22. 
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
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Merlin Tuttle
4.32 avg rating — 1,768 ratings 22. 
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest
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Ed Caesar
3.79 avg rating — 3,224 ratings 25. 
Mountaineer: A Lifetime of Climbing the Great Mountains of the World
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Chris Bonington
4.31 avg rating — 45 ratings 
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The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent
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Doug K. Scott
3.81 avg rating — 257 ratings 27. 
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
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Carlos Magdalena
4.03 avg rating — 1,383 ratings 
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Chasing Thoreau an Adventure in Paddling and Philosophy
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Jim Payne
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 31. 
The Bond: Two Epic Climbs in Alaska and a Lifetime's Connection Between Climbers
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Simon McCartney
4.59 avg rating — 269 ratings 31. 
The Edge of the World: A Visual Adventure to the Most Extraordinary Places on Earth
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Outside Magazine
4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings 33. 
There is no Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells
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Steve Birkinshaw
4.11 avg rating — 563 ratings 33. 
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No Easy Way: The challenging life of the climbing taxman
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Mick Fowler
4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings 35. 
White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas
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Robert Twigger
3.58 avg rating — 147 ratings 
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Hiking the Florida Trail: 1,100 Miles, 78 Days, Two Pairs of Boots, and One Heck of an Adventure
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Johnny Molloy
3.44 avg rating — 41 ratings 37. 
Secrets of Ancient America: Archaeoastronomy and the Legacy of the Phoenicians, Celts, and Other Forgotten Explorers
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Carl Lehrburger
3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Botanical Explorers
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Carolyn Fry
3.93 avg rating — 89 ratings 40. 
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
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Diana Preston
4.08 avg rating — 1,259 ratings 43. 
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
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Helen Mort
4.38 avg rating — 146 ratings 
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Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests
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Joan Maloof
4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings 
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Appalachian Adventure: From Georgia to Maine, A Spectacular Journey on the Great American Trail 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,329 ratings
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Glorious Times: Adventures of the Craighead Naturalists
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Tom Benjey
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 52. 
Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History and Legends, Unearthed and Explored
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Frank Joseph
4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings 54. 
Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire
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Nicholas Howe
4.11 avg rating — 1,516 ratings 54. 
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Worlds to Discover: Kayak Adventures One Inch Above the Water
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Jim Payne
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
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Charles Foster
3.20 avg rating — 1,698 ratings 
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Greenpeace Captain: My Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet
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Peter Willcox
4.02 avg rating — 165 ratings 
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
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Gaia Vince
4.06 avg rating — 897 ratings 
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Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
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Bernd Heinrich
4.01 avg rating — 4,110 ratings 68. 
A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
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Jonathan Mack
3.95 avg rating — 143 ratings 70. 
Adventure Carolinas: Your Go-To Guide for Multi-Sport Outdoor Recreation
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Joe Miller
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 70. 
Red Lead: The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway
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Roland Perry
4.15 avg rating — 186 ratings 
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The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived
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Ingrid Rimland
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 74. 
Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World
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Ben Hewitt
3.96 avg rating — 1,633 ratings 74. 
Dog that Survived the Titanic: And Other Amazing Animal Stories
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Robert Lodge
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 76. 
This Book Was a Tree: Ideas, Adventures, and Inspiration for Rediscovering the Natural World 3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story Of Five American Airmen, A Doomed Plane, And The Will To Survive
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Richard Starks
3.81 avg rating — 207 ratings 78. 
The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
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John Muir
4.12 avg rating — 1,553 ratings 
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Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World
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Kieran Doherty
3.88 avg rating — 104 ratings 82. 
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
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Michael Sims
3.79 avg rating — 300 ratings 82. 
Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity
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Ejnar Mikkelsen
4.16 avg rating — 758 ratings 84. 
This Happened to Me!: A Graphic Collection of True Adventure Tales
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Outdoor Life
3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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John Vaillant
4.07 avg rating — 18,585 ratings 88. 
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Incredible Survival Stories: Tales of Death-Defying Treks across the Globe
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Graham Moore
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 90. 
Adventures in Yarn Farming: Four Seasons on a New England Fiber Farm
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Barbara Parry
4.25 avg rating — 474 ratings 
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Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology
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D. Bruce Means
4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings 92. 
Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family's Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness
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Vasily Peskov
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 861 ratings 94. 
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce, and Adventure 3.81 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Angels in the Wilderness: The True Story of One Woman's Survival Against All Odds
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Amy Racina
3.69 avg rating — 159 ratings 96. 
The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales
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Diane Ackerman
4.21 avg rating — 1,230 ratings 96. 
Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
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Cary J. Griffith
4.08 avg rating — 2,110 ratings 98. 
Dreaming of Wolves: Adventures in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania
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Alan E. Sparks
3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings 
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings