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Edited by Jon Krakauer (Into Thin
Air)
This series reprises exploration/adventure classics that until now have been
out of print. Chosen for literary merit and historical significance as well as
their great readability, these books provide a look at the shifting rationales
given by explorers over the ages for why anyone would willingly subject himself
to such unthinkable hazards and hardships. |
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 THE
SHAMELESS DIARY OF AN EXPLORER:
A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley,
Robert Dunn - a frank, sardonic,
no-holds-barred look at day-to-day
existence on a 1907 Alaskan
expedition. Led by Frederick
Cook (who would later win infamy
for faking the discovery of
the North Pole), the climbers
failed to conquer McKinley,
but they did circumnavigate
the great peak—an accomplishment
not repeated until 1978. |
 GREAT
EXPLORATION HOAXES, David
Roberts - demonstrating that
the qualities that brought an
individual so close to his goal
were often the same ones that
drove him to fake success, this
is history at its best: entertaining,
provocative, and revealing of
human nature. |
$14.95 (softcover)
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$14.95
(softcover)
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 NOTES
FROM THE CENTURY BEFORE: A Journal
from British Columbia,
Edward Hoagland - an account of
Hoagland's 1966 venture into the
wild country of British Columbia
where he encountered a way of
life that was disappearing even
as he chronicled it. Hoagland’s
gift for portraiture—his
cast runs from salty prospector
to trader, explorer, missionary,
and indigenous guide—provides
a breathtaking mix of anecdote,
derring-do, and unparalleled elegy
from one of the finest writers
of our time. |
 THE
MOUNTAINS OF MY LIFE, Walter
Bonatti - the classic writings
of this world-famous mountaineer
and his version of the 1954
controversy over the events
on K2. Bonatti's selfless actions
helped avert disaster, yet in
the expedition's aftermath he
found himself cast as a scapegoat.
Part detective story, part hair-raising
adventure, part meditation on
his craft, this book is both
awe-inspiring and controversial.
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$13.95 (softcover)
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$14.95 (softcover)
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THE LAND OF WHITE DEATH, Valerian
Albanov - the story of the crew
of the Russian vessel Santa Anna,
frozen into the polar ice cap
then, after waiting nearly 18
months for rescue, setting out
on foot across hundreds of miles
of ice hoping to reach safety
(only two survived). |
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SALLE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE
GREAT WEST, Francis Parkman
- the account of the astonishing
journeys of Robert Cavelier, Sieur
de La Salle, as he crisscrossed
the wilds of 17th-century America
hoping to discover a navigable
waterway to the orient. |
$12.95 (hardcover)
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$14.95 (softcover)
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AND TRAGIC SHORES, Chauncey
Loomis - the biography-cum-mystery
of a nameless Cincinnati businessman
who made a fatal expedition to
the far north in search of Sir
John Franklin and his party, who
disappeared while exploring the
Arctic. |
$14.95 (softcover)
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