The Hunt for Mount Everest
By: Craig Storti
3.91
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest …
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1. Napoleon: A Concise Biography
By: David A. Bell
3.98
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and c… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Seven Years in Tibet
By: Heinrich Harrer
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
3. The Songlines
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth c… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
"A journey is a fragment of Hell."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]"-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
4. 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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- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
5. Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
By: Andy Hall
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Denali's Howlis the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time.… read more
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- mountaineering
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
6. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. The Abominable
By: Dan Simmons
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
ALA Reading List Award for History, Short List A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival… read more
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8. The Battle for the Falklands
By: Max Hastings , Simon Jenkins
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
"Must be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on t… read more
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9. Gone South
By: Robert McCammon
3.70
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Flooded by memories, poisoned by the deadly fallout of Agent Orange, and desperate for work, Dan La… read more
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10. Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent
By: Mick Conefrey
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Reaching the top of the world in 1953 was one of the most significant achievements in the history o… read more
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11. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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12. Znachor
By: Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Historia wybitnego chirurga, ktory w dramatycznych okolicznosciach traci pamiec i jako wiejski znac… read more
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13. The End of Drum-Time
By: Hanna Pylväinen
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more
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- audiobook
14. The Next Everest
By: Jim Davidson
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of Atlas & Boots' Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021 A dramatic account of the deadl… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- audiobook
15. The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
By: Mark Synnott
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- audiobook
16. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
17. The Monster of Florence
By: Douglas Preston
3.76
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Lars… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"But we were just picnicking friends"-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
"We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind."-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
"You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion."-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
"You can not stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion."-Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence
18. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- audiobook
19. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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- audiobook
20. Madonna: A Rebel Life
By: Mary Gabriel
4.03
Format: 1782 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the YearIn this “infinitely readable” bi… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
21. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
22. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
23. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
By: Oliver Bullough
4.20
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
24. Mysterious Setting
By: Kazushige Abe
3.58
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, fro… read more
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- asia
25. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
By: Nimsdai Purja
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529312249. In Beyond Possible Nimsdai Purja tells the story … read more
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- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
- audiobook
26. The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
By: Scott Ellsworth
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all se… read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
27. Split
By: Alida Bremer
2.66
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Nazis, spies, romance, and murder collide in prewar eastern Europe in a mesmerizing historical nove… read more
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28. The Hunt for Mount Everest
By: Craig Storti
3.91
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest … read more
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- mountaineering
- audiobook
29. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more
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- history
- audiobook
30. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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- history
- audiobook
