SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE

               

"You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere They won't make it home, but they really don't care They wanted the highway They're happier there today, today"    

                                                           

 

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Blue Highways: A Journey into America By William Least Heat-Moon, Bill McKibben (Foreword by) Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316353298
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Published: Back Bay Books - October 19th, 1999

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.


False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia By María Sonia Cristoff, Katherine Silver (Translator) Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781945492143
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Published: Transit Books - October 2nd, 2018

A bold, beautiful book.--The New York Times

A marvelous chronicle.--Publishers Weekly


I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780809015504
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Published: Hill and Wang - August 1st, 1993

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.


Last Chance to See By Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780345371980
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 13th, 1992

New York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.


Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire By Nicholas Howe Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9781934028322
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Published: Appalachian Mountain Club - October 14th, 2009

Among the most dangerous mountains in the world, Mount Washington has challenged adventurers for centuries with its severe weather.


On Trails: An Exploration By Robert Moor Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781476739236
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 4th, 2017

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra Club

From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared D


Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure on the Coast of Molokai By Audrey Sutherland, Yoshiko Yamamoto (Illustrator) Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781938340765
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Published: Patagonia - July 31st, 2018

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now


The Snow Leopard: (Penguin Orange Collection) By Peter Matthiessen Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143129523
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Published: Penguin Classics - October 18th, 2016

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition

 


West with the Night: A Memoir By Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler (Introduction by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780865477636
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Published: North Point Press - January 22nd, 2013

A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time

Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen.


Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) By Cheryl Strayed Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307476074
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Published: Vintage - March 26th, 2013

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.