Top True Adventure Books
Discover the top true adventure books that will thrill and inspire! Explore gripping real-life tales of survival, exploration, and daring exploits from the best authors in the genre.
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Adrift
by Steven Callahan
The author recalls his seventy-six day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five foot inflatable raft, after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting …
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Alive
by Piers Paul Read
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers …
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In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick. …
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Black Hawk Down
by Mark Bowden
Chronicles the experiences of ninety-nine American soldiers who were trapped in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993.
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months …
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We Die Alone. [Illustr.]- New York: Macmillan 1955. X, 231 S. 8°
by David Armine Howarth
Adventures of Jan Baalsrud, a member of the Norwegian resistance during the World War.
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Batavia's Graveyard
by Mike Dash
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for …
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Undaunted Courage
by Stephen E. Ambrose
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, …
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Kon-Tiki
by Thor Heyerdahl
The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years …
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Killing Pablo
by Mark Bowden
Traces the rise of Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his ultimate defeat--death in 1993, after a sixteen-month manhunt, at the hands of a Columbian …
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Ordeal by Hunger
by George R. Stewart
The true story of the hardships encountered by the Donner Party on their 1846 overland trip to California.
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Mayflower
by Nathaniel Philbrick
A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England discusses such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the relationship …
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West with the Night
by Beryl Markham
Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.