9 Best adventure books like Once Is Enough by Miles Smeeton

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Once Is Enough

By: Miles Smeeton

4.16

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

This timeless classic is an exciting true story of survival against all odds.‘There was a sudden si…

If you liked the adventure plot in Once Is Enough by Miles Smeeton , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit: An American Legend book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • nonfiction
"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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2. Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft

By: Thor Heyerdahl

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Five men in search of a mythical hero journey from Peru to Polynesia in this classic account of nau… read more

Similar categories in Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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3. A Voyage for Madmen

By: Peter Nichols

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate … read more

Similar categories in Peter Nichols's A Voyage for Madmen book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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4. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)

By: Alan Bradley

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hard on the heels of the return of her mother's body from the frozen reaches of the Himalayas, Flav… read more

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5. The Long Way

By: Bernard Moitessier

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden … read more

Similar categories in Bernard Moitessier's The Long Way book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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6. City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

By: Roger Crowley

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from… read more

Similar categories in Roger Crowley's City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • nonfiction

7. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (Jeeves, #13)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Bertie Wooster vows that nothing will induce him to return to Totleigh Towers, lair of former magis… read more

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8. Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

3.77

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's Thunderstruck book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • nonfiction

9. Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

By: Peter Nichols

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Plenty of thrills for the armchair traveller...captivating". -- PeopleMany people go to the sea in… read more

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10. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more

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11. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more

Similar categories in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1) book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • adventure
"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."

-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

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12. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

By: Hampton Sides

4.57

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle… read more

Similar categories in Hampton Sides's On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • nonfiction
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13. Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

By: Brett Archibald

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." ―The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fif… read more

Similar categories in Brett Archibald's Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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14. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

By: Buddy Levy

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more

Similar categories in Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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15. Deadly Stakes (Ali Reynolds #8)

By: J.A. Jance

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling mystery from 'New York Times' bestselling author J.A. Jance starring Ali Reynolds who f… read more

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16. The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska

By: Kim Heacox

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers.”So begins The Only Kayak, Kim Heaco… read more

Similar categories in Kim Heacox's The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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17. World of My Own

By: Robin Knox-Johnston

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour stee… read more

Similar categories in Robin Knox-Johnston's World of My Own book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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18. Cape Horn to Starboard

By: John Kretschmer

4.19

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary account of the author's voyage around Cape Horn in a 32-foot sailboat, sailing east-to-we… read more

Similar categories in John Kretschmer's Cape Horn to Starboard book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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19. Half Fast: (mis) Adventures in Slowly Sailing around (on) the World

By: Randy Baker

4.46

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever thought of ditching your conventional life to buy a sailboat and go traveling the world as a m… read more

Similar categories in Randy Baker's Half Fast: (mis) Adventures in Slowly Sailing around (on) the World book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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20. Surviving Alone

By: Clay Hayes

4.65

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

Alone in the wilds of British Columbia, cut off from family and friends, uncertain of how long he m… read more

Similar categories in Clay Hayes's Surviving Alone book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • nonfiction
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21. Once Is Enough

By: Miles Smeeton

4.16

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

This timeless classic is an exciting true story of survival against all odds.‘There was a sudden si… read more

Similar categories in Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough book and Miles Smeeton's Once Is Enough

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • adventure

15 best-selling nonfiction books like Once Is Enough by Miles Smeeton

Transform Your Habits

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Laura Hillenbrand

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft

Thor Heyerdahl

4.39

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A Voyage for Madmen

Peter Nichols

3.61

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The Long Way

Bernard Moitessier

5.00

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides

4.27

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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

Mensun Bound

4.12

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Julian Sancton

4.27

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4.51

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