Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range
By: Michael Engelhard
3.78
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland, cultural connections, historical figures, h…
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1. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
By: Jonathan Franklin , Jonathan Franklin
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyo… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"How many of us appreciate the joys of a simple tortilla?"-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
"Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm."-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
"[...] what else motivated him to spend hour after hour with me, telling all the details of his story? I quote at length his answer. "I suffered so much and for so long. Maybe if people read this they…"-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
"There's a lot of talk these days about a thing called resilience. That's the in term at the moment," says Dr. John Leach, a survival psychologist. "You've got built-in resilience, so you can bounce b…"-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
2. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Outsidemagazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boa… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
3. The Old Man
By: Thomas Perry
3.68
Format: 346 pages,
Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move "almost faster than a speeding b… read more
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4. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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5. River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
By: Wade Davis
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river drainag… read more
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6. Coming into the Country
By: John McPhee
4.80
Format: 360 pages,
This is the story of Alaska and the Alaskans. Written with a vividness and clarity which shifts sce… read more
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7. The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
By: Colin Fletcher
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Colin Fletcher is a self-described "compulsive walker." It is not unusual for him to pick up a map,… read more
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8. Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
By: Scott Jurek , Steve Friedman
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force--and darling--in the grueling and gro… read more
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9. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
10. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
By: Bob Odenkirk
3.60
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more
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- nonfiction
"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
11. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
12. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
13. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
By: Bess Kalb
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmoth… read more
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- nonfiction
"If the earth is cracking behind you right up to your heels, put one foot in front of the other. You keep going. Nothing's as important as moving forward."-Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
14. A Runner's High: My Life in Motion
By: Dean Karnazes
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
“A Runner’s High wakes up the appetite to run long distances. Dean takes us on a lifelong journey o… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
16. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
17. Mrs. Plansky's Revenge
By: Spencer Quinn
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while… read more
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18. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
19. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
By: Frank Figliuzzi
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more
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- nonfiction
20. One Deadly Eye (Doc Ford #27)
By: Randy Wayne White
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
After the deadliest hurricane to hit Sanibel Island in a century, Doc Ford must stop a gang of thie… read more
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21. Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
By: Avi Loeb
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visit… read more
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- nonfiction
"El progreso científico se mide por cuánto se acerca una idea propuesta a la verdad"-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
"Nuestros antepasados usaban términos como -viajar- y -explorar-; hoy, nos vamos de vacaciones."-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
"...aunque todos estamos compuestos de la misma materia ordinaria, eso no nos impide ser personas extraordinarias."-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
"La ciencia es ante todo una experiencia de aprendizaje, una vivencia que funciona mejor si somos humildes ante nuestros errores."-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
22. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
23. God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
By: Jack Kelly
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Benedict Arnold committed treason— for more than two centuries, that’s all that most Americans have… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir
By: Brianna Madia
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and triumphant memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Ver… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
25. Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
By: Brent Underwood
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)
By: Paul Doiron
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more
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27. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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28. Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range
By: Michael Engelhard
3.78
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland, cultural connections, historical figures, h… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
29. Finding Elevation: Fear and Courage on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain
By: Lisa Thompson
4.29
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Near the death zone on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the stre… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way
By: Michael Shaw Bond
4.14
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"On the island of Igloolik, where Aporta has conducted much of his research, a good navigator is known by the term 'aangaittuq', which means 'attentive'. Aangaittuq describes not just a person's wayfi…"-Michael Shaw Bond, Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way
"When you're reading a conventional map, north is generally straight ahead, though this is entirely artefact of map-making culture and has no effect on orientation. Medieval European maps were 'east u…"-Michael Shaw Bond, Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way
31. This Land of Snow: A Journey Across the North in Winter
By: Anders Morley
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
2021 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Journeys A passionate skier since he was a child, Ander… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
