True Adventure Outdoor
100. 
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
by:
Robert Whitaker
3.63 avg rating — 1,815 ratings 102. 
Lost and Stranded: Expert Advice on How to Survive Being Alone in the Wilderness
by:
Timothy Sprinkle
3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings 
106. 
108. 
My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor 4.38 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
110. 
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
by:
David Roberts
3.87 avg rating — 4,931 ratings 110. 
Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival From The 2011 Canterbury Earthquake 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
112. 
The Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean
by:
Rita M. Gardner
4.30 avg rating — 175 ratings 
114. 
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
by:
Annalee Newitz
3.53 avg rating — 1,966 ratings 114. 
116. 
116. 
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by:
Joe Simpson
4.23 avg rating — 63,066 ratings 
118. 
Trek: A Classic Adventure Story of Disaster and Survival in the Sahara
by:
Paul Stewart
4.18 avg rating — 88 ratings 120. 
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
by:
Phillip Hoose
3.91 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 120. 
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
3.87 avg rating — 46,527 ratings 122. 
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic & Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port & Most Original Town
by:
Mark Kurlansky
3.80 avg rating — 893 ratings 122. 
Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp
by:
Xianhui Yang
4.38 avg rating — 332 ratings 124. 
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by:
Velma Wallis
4.08 avg rating — 17,686 ratings 125. 
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century 3.83 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
125. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,938 ratings 127. 
Lines, Tines & Southern Pines: Discovering Life through Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Tales
by:
Corey W. Jenkins
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings 127. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,184 ratings
129. 
129. 
The Promise of the West: Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
131. 
Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table
by:
Dylan Tomine
4.25 avg rating — 751 ratings 131. 
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
by:
David McCullough
3.82 avg rating — 26,714 ratings 
133. 
135. 
Get Outside: The Kids Guide to Fun in the Great Outdoors
by:
Jane Drake
3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings 
137. 
139. 
Land of the Horses: A True Story of a Lost Soul and a Life Found
by:
Chris Lombard
4.42 avg rating — 52 ratings 139. 
141. 
142. 
Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation
by:
Julie M. Fenster
3.87 avg rating — 315 ratings 142. 
Into the Prairie: The Pioneers (Westward America, #3)
by:
Rosanne Bittner
4.23 avg rating — 153 ratings 144. 
River Master: John Wesley Powell's Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
by:
Cecil Kuhne
3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings 144. 
I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail 4.23 avg rating — 667 ratings
146. 
Drawn to the Deep: The Remarkable Underwater Explorations of Wes Skiles
by:
Julie Hauserman
4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings 146. 
My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux
by:
Fanny Kelly
3.88 avg rating — 1,855 ratings 148. 
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.65 avg rating — 803 ratings 
152. 
154. 
Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide
by:
Noel Grove
3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings 154. 
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by:
Caroline Fraser
3.94 avg rating — 19,449 ratings 
158. 
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
by:
Wendy McClure
3.48 avg rating — 8,007 ratings 160. 
Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice
by:
Belden C. Lane
4.14 avg rating — 467 ratings 160. 
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
by:
Giles Milton
4.12 avg rating — 1,591 ratings 
162. 
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
by:
Jon Billman
3.68 avg rating — 8,068 ratings 
166. 
168. 
From the Jaws of Death: Extreme True Adventures of Man vs. Nature
by:
Brogan Steele
3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings 170. 
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
by:
Delia Owens
4.19 avg rating — 3,255 ratings 171. 
Cactus Country (Time-Life American Wilderness Series )
by:
Edward Abbey
3.95 avg rating — 121 ratings 171. 
The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels 4.09 avg rating — 915 ratings
173. 
173. 
Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece
by:
Ken McGoogan
3.88 avg rating — 88 ratings 
175. 
Death in Acadia and Other Misadventures in Maine's National Park
by:
Randi Minetor
3.64 avg rating — 264 ratings 177. 
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
by:
Erik Reece
4.14 avg rating — 659 ratings 177. 
Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough
by:
Charles Kingsley
3.61 avg rating — 489 ratings 179. 
179. 
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
by:
Martin Dugard
4.15 avg rating — 7,474 ratings 181. 
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
by:
Douglas Brinkley
4.07 avg rating — 2,354 ratings 181. 
The Adventures of John Jewitt, only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston 3.96 avg rating — 251 ratings
183. 
Fortune & Glory: Tales of History's Greatest Archaeological Adventurers
by:
Douglas Palmer
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 30 ratings 184. 
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
by:
Daniel Stone
3.94 avg rating — 3,596 ratings 184. 
Strange Encounters: Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist
by:
Daniel B. Botkin
2.86 avg rating — 28 ratings 186. 
Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
by:
Huw Lewis-Jones
4.38 avg rating — 247 ratings 186. 
Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe
by:
Diana Souhami
3.51 avg rating — 454 ratings 188. 
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air
by:
Stewart Ross
4.23 avg rating — 292 ratings 
191. 
Paws of Courage: True Tales of Heroic Dogs that Protect and Serve
by:
Ronald Aiello
4.35 avg rating — 98 ratings 193. 
193. 
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
by:
Giles Milton
3.82 avg rating — 5,239 ratings 195. 
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 4.04 avg rating — 6,742 ratings
197. 
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by:
Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating — 24,755 ratings 197. 
Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
199. 
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
by:
Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 199. 
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by:
Blaine Harden
4.01 avg rating — 70,869 ratings