Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
By: Richard J. King
3.95
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, dis…
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1. This Thing of Darkness
By: Harry Thompson
3.81
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying… read more
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2. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
By: Brian M. Fagan
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more
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- history
3. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
By: George Crile
4.36
Format: 544 pages,
s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress & a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the His… read more
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4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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5. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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6. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
By: Ian Urbina
4.36
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are… read more
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- history
- nature
"Slavery is a harsh reality thatmour better angels would like to think ended two centuries ago, when many countries passed laws against such bondage withing their borders. But this sort of bondage is …"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
"This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on th…"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
7. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
8. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- history
- nature
9. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
By: Ron Cowen
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more
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- history
10. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
11. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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- history
12. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- adventure
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- nature
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
13. In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
By: Jack Goldsmith
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-e… read more
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- history
14. Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans
By: Josh Young
3.58
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oce… read more
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- history
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- adventure
15. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Humanity’s last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civ… read more
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- history
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16. Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
By: Richard J. King
3.95
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, dis… read more
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- nature
17. The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
By: William Poundstone
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? , a fascinating look at how an equation … read more
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18. Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
By: Colombe Schneck
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and best-selling French author, a woman personal journey through abortion, s… read more
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19. Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Eliza… read more
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- adventure
20. High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
By: Tom Parfitt
4.34
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
High Caucasus is Tom Parfitt's wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about the 1,000-… read more
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