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One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Written by Linda Tucker
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Format: Trade Paperback, 374 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $19.95
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve... Read more >
One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal
Written by Linda Tucker
Foreword by Andrew Harvey
Format: eBook, 374 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion.
Her story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure in the Timbavati Reserve... Read more >
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America's First Ascent of Everest
Written by Broughton Coburn
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $26.00
By the author of the New York Times bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963 – published to coincide with the climb's 50th anniversary – combines riveting adventure, a perceptive analysis of its dark and terrifying historical context, and...
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America's First Ascent of Everest
Written by Broughton Coburn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $12.99
By the author of the New York Times bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963 – published to coincide with the climb's 50th anniversary – combines riveting adventure, a perceptive analysis of its dark and terrifying historical context, and...
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On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Written by Bob Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $27.00
Combining the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife, Born on a Mountaintop delves deep into our love for an American icon.
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he... Read more >
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On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Written by Bob Thompson
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
Combining the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife, Born on a Mountaintop delves deep into our love for an American icon.
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he... Read more >
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The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Written by Lee Sandlin
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.95
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology.
While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains of North America have the perfect...
The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Written by Lee Sandlin
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology.
While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains of North America have the perfect...
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An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival
Written by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $16.00
“The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post
In... Read more >
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The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Written by Wade Davis
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col...
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In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Written by Scott Wallace
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
THE UNCONQUERED TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE AMAZON TO TRACK ONE OF THE PLANET’S LAST UNCONTACTED IN DIGENOUS TRIBES.
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the...
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The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
Written by David Roberts
Foreword by Jon Krakauer
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $16.00
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted... Read more >
Written by Michael Crichton
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2012
Price: $9.99
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro.
Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with...
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A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
Written by Howard Blum
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $16.00
It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen –are now victims of their own success. They are heroes who’ve outlived their usefulness.
But then gold is... Read more >
Written by Thomas C. Danisi
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $12.99
The critically acclaimed biography Meriwether Lewis, coauthored by Thomas C. Danisi, was praised for its meticulous research and for shedding new light on the adventurous life and controversial death of the great explorer who became famous through the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Now, the author, with some help from contributors, extends... Read more >
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Written by Thomas C. Danisi
Format: Hardcover, 466 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $26.00
The critically acclaimed biography Meriwether Lewis, coauthored by Thomas C. Danisi, was praised for its meticulous research and for shedding new light on the adventurous life and controversial death of the great explorer who became famous through the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Now, the author, with some help from contributors, extends... Read more >
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A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
Written by Glynis Ridley
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $15.00
The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire.
Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s... Read more >
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The Passages of Joshua Slocum
Written by Geoffrey Wolff
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $15.00
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a...
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The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Written by Wade Davis
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $32.50
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them... Read more >
The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Written by Wade Davis
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $12.99
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them... Read more >
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The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Written by Wade Davis
Read by Enn Reitel
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $32.50
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them... Read more >
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In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Written by Scott Wallace
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $26.00
THE UNCONQUERED TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE AMAZON TO TRACK ONE OF THE PLANET’S LAST UNCONTACTED IN DIGENOUS TRIBES.
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the...
In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Written by Scott Wallace
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
THE UNCONQUERED TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE AMAZON TO TRACK ONE OF THE PLANET’S LAST UNCONTACTED IN DIGENOUS TRIBES.
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the...
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An Adventure at Sea
Written by John Moynihan
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $11.99
A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea
When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic: As a young man, before joining the U.S. Navy, Pat... Read more >
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An Adventure at Sea
Written by John Moynihan
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $22.00
A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea
When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic: As a young man, before joining the U.S. Navy, Pat... Read more >
