The Essential Man's Library: 50 Non-Fiction Adventure Books

50 obres 105,153 Llibres 2,363 Ressenyes 4.0
A list of 50 essential books of non-fiction adventure stories compiled by the website artofmanliness.com in 2009.
Obra
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) de Stephen E. Ambrose
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (1965) de Anonymous
The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas (2003) de Todd Balf
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (2003) de Laurence Bergreen
This Accursed Land (1977) de Lennard Bickel
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) de David Breashears
On Horseback through Asia Minor (1985) de Frederick Burnaby
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986) de Steven Callahan
Death in the Long Grass (1977) de Peter H. Capstick
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (1994) de Andrew Chaikin
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) de Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) (1986) de Christopher Columbus
Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944) de Jim Corbett
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (2001) de Martin Dugard
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (2003) de Martin Dugard
Brazilian Adventure (1933) de Peter Fleming
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival (2009) de Yossi Ghinsberg
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2009) de David Grann
The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest (2000) de Bear Grylls
My Life as an Explorer (1925) de Sven Hedin
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole (2005) de Bruce Henderson
Annapurna (1951) de Maurice Herzog
L'Expedició del Kon-Tiki (1948) de Thor Heyerdahl
High Adventure (1955) de Edmund Hillary
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) (1983) de Peter Hopkirk
K2, the Savage Mountain (1954) de Charles S. Houston
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea (1997) de Sebastian Junger
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (2004) de Dean King
Cap a terres salvatges (1996) de Jon Krakauer
La Febre del cim : crònica d'una tragedia a l'Everest (1996) de Jon Krakauer
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold (2006) de Frank T. Kryza
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959) de Alfred Lansing
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542) de ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (2001) de Jamling Tenzing Norgay
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) de J. H. Patterson
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000) de Nathaniel Philbrick
Libro de las maravillas (1298) de Marco Polo
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) de John Wesley Powell
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004) de Aron Ralston
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974) de Piers Paul Read
Of Whales and Men (1954) de R.B. Robertson
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) de Theodore Roosevelt
Terra dels homes (1939) de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
South: The Endurance Expedition (1919) de Ernest Shackleton
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (1988) de Joe Simpson
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001) de Doug Stanton
Arabian Sands (1959) de Wilfred Thesiger
The Marsh Arabs (Penguin Classics) (1964) de Wilfred Thesiger
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1905) de Reuben Gold Thwaites
The Innocents Abroad (1869) de Mark Twain

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