Upon That Mountain
By: Eric Shipton
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Eric Shipton details some of his climbing adventures including - traveling through the alp…
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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
By: Joe Simpson
4.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more
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"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
2. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
By: Keith Lowe
4.22
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for anot… read more
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"Los británicos, al igual que los estadounidenses, recuerdan la Segunda Guerra Mundial como una época en la que su mejor generación salvó al mundo de la maldad del nazismo."-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
"While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the Holocaust on the grounds that what Germans in eastern Europe suffe…"-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
"The rationing system that was set up in Britain at the outbreak of the hostilities was as revolutionary as anything the Communists could have dreamed up. Almost every basic item of food was rationed …"-Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
3. The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent
By: Mick Conefrey
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Downright thrilling; [Conefrey] really gives us a sense of what it must have been like, battling e… read more
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4. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
5. True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna
By: David Roberts
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In a startling look at the classic Annapurna -- the most famous book about mountaineering -- David … read more
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6. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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7. Annapurna
By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
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8. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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10. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
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11. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
By: Jon Krakauer
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyie… read more
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12. The ascent of Nanda Devi
By: H.W. Tilman
5.00
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This book narrates the first ascent of Nanda Devi by the joint British American team lead by H. W. … read more
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13. Minus 148 Degrees
By: Art Davidson
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
Classic tale of dramatic near-death experiences in the harshest of conditions. read more
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14. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
15. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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16. Silverview
By: John Le Carré
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more
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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."-John Le Carré, Silverview
"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"-John Le Carré, Silverview
17. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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18. Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
By: Harley Rustad
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on t… read more
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19. Upon That Mountain
By: Eric Shipton
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Eric Shipton details some of his climbing adventures including - traveling through the alp… read more
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