17 Best nonfiction books like Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents by Peter Hathaway Capstick

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Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents

By: Peter Hathaway Capstick

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Last Horizons , Peter Hathaway Capstick now presents Death in a Lonely Land , a …

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1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

By: Max Hastings

4.06

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more

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"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

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2. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels

By: Jules Verne

3.89

Format: 739 pages, Hardcover

Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with advent… read more

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  • adventure
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3. The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan

By: Eric Blehm , None

4.31

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eric Blehm, author of the award-winning The Last Season, is back with another true adventure story,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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  • adventure
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

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5. Seabiscuit: An American Legend

By: Laura Hillenbrand

4.22

Format: 457 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's an alternate cover edition here Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular … read more

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"The weather was clear, the track fast War Admiral broke first and finished last."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sport."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"He grasped for hope in Emerson's vision of natural polarities, in which all things are balanced by their opposites—darkness by light, cold by heat, loss by gain."

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

"There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of f…"

-Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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6. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari

By: Robert Ruark

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

No other book can give you the feel of Africa like this one can. read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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8. The Great Escape

By: Paul Brickhill

4.03

Format: 320 pages,

One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hun… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

By: Colin Woodard

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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10. Lieutenant Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his … read more

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11. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist

By: Theodore Roosevelt , Peter Hathaway Capstick

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

12. Man-Eaters of Kumaon

By: Jim Corbett

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jim Corbett was every inch a hero, something like a "sahib" Davy Crockett: expert in the ways of th… read more

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  • adventure

13. The Night Stalkers

By: Michael J. Durant , Steven Hartov

3.90

Format: 77 pages,

From the authors of the bestselling In the Company of Heroes come the thrilling, never-before-heard… read more

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14. The Last Season

By: Eric Blehm

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more

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15. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

By: Evan Wright

4.28

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandt… read more

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"Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it"

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

16. Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

By: Marcus Brotherton , Adam Makos

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

These are the stories from fifteen WWII Marines, compiled by Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton but l… read more

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17. Rainbow Six (Jack Ryan Universe, #10)

By: Tom Clancy

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At its heart is ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, now the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task… read more

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18. Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him

By: Eric Blehm

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team Six, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary ope… read more

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19. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume… read more

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20. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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21. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By: Adam Hochschild

4.18

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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22. A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

By: Hannes Wessels

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reput… read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
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23. 12 Strong

By: Doug Stanton

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

This is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan imm… read more

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Cover of The Sound of Boer Rifles (The Soldier's Son Book 2) by Malcolm Archibald

24. The Sound of Boer Rifles (The Soldier's Son Book 2)

By: Malcolm Archibald

4.40

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

As the first Boer War rages around them, Andrew Baird - the son of Jack Windrush - and Mariana Maxw… read more

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25. The Noise of Zulu Battle (The Soldier's Son Book 1)

By: Malcolm Archibald

4.41

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

South Africa, 1877. Andrew Baird is a man trying to escape his past. The son of the famous “Fightin… read more

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26. A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa

By: Frederick Courteney Selous

4.14

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Frederick Courteney Selous 1851 – 1917 was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist… read more

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  • africa
  • nonfiction
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27. The Hunt (Lord Edward's Archer, #7)

By: Griff Hosker

4.54

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Following on from the Wallace's War, The Hunt is another novel in the Lord Edward’s Archer series.‘… read more

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28. Karamojo Safari

By: W.D.M. Bell

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Karamojo Safari, first published in 1949, is a classic story of elephant hunting, safaris, native l… read more

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29. Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents

By: Peter Hathaway Capstick

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Last Horizons , Peter Hathaway Capstick now presents Death in a Lonely Land , a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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30. African Hunting, from Natal to the Zambesi

By: William Charles Baldwin

4.12

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

"Baldwin's work is one of the most extraordinary records we have met with of wild adventure, cool d… read more

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31. Safari: A Dangerous Affair

By: Walt Prothero

4.57

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

It shows safaris are not without danger, and you better have your life insurance paid up before you… read more

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8 best-selling adventure books like Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents by Peter Hathaway Capstick

Transform Your Habits

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels

Jules Verne

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari

Robert Ruark

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

Colin Woodard

3.67

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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Mark Owen , Kevin Maurer

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

None , Robert O'Neill

4.42

Transform Your Habits

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

Mitchell Zuckoff

3.44

Transform Your Habits

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

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