One Day as a Tiger: Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
By: John Porter
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory and poignant memoir showing mountaineering at its extraordinary best and tragic worst …
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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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- adventure
- nonfiction
- mountaineering
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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. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By: William Finnegan
4.27
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more
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"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
3. The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosa… read more
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"better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother"-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
"I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
"Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
"The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
4. The Last Day of a Condemned Man
By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen
3.98
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more
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"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
5. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By: Ishmael Beah
4.19
Format: 416 pages,
The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twe… read more
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6. The Time Machine
By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account … read more
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"For after the Battle comes quiet."-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
"[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]"-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
7. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
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8. Beyond the Mountain
By: Steve House
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraisi… read more
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9. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
By: Graham Bowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages,
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most … read more
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10. Born to Run
By: Bruce Springsteen
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The e… read more
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11. The Beckoning Silence
By: Joe Simpson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
"I had to stand there and watch while the rest of my life was determined by the shaky adhesion of a… read more
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12. Psychovertical
By: Andy Kirkpatrick
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's most accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers tells of his thirteen-day a… read more
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13. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
14. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
15. Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
By: Bernadette McDonald
4.23
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, compli… read more
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16. Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth
By: Leo Houlding
4.30
Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition
Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person … read more
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17. All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing
By: Jeff Smoot
4.05
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
*An insider’s perspective on free soloing *From the author of the critically acclaimed Hangdog D… read more
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18. One Day as a Tiger: Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
By: John Porter
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory and poignant memoir showing mountaineering at its extraordinary best and tragic worst … read more
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19. The Lifer: Rock Climbing Adventures in the GUNKS and Beyond
By: Russ Clune Clune
4.50
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
One of the world’s most well-traveled rock climbers, Clune takes us on an up-close journey though t… read more
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20. Sacred Summits: Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid, and Gauri Sankar
By: Peter Boardman
4.30
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Pe… read more
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21. Structured Chaos
By: Victor Saunders
4.68
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Structured Chaos is Victor Saunders’ follow-up to Elusive Summits (winner of the Boardman Tasker Pr… read more
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