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On Foot in Arizona's Red Rock Country: Seven Spectacular Hikes With Interpretive Guide (2nd Edition, Includes Trail Maps)

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Stephan M. Block (Self-published): January 1991

Seller ID: 18424

ISBN: B0073BGNBY

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Slight shelve wear on the cover
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Rescue: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea (Adrenaline)

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press: April 2000

Seller ID: 76019

ISBN: 1560252588

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

By: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt

Price: $3.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks: July 1998

Seller ID: 51637

ISBN: 0312965338

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive... On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement, and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left for dead, or stranded on the frigid mountain. Anatoli Boukreev, head climbing guide for the Mountain Madness expedition, stepped into the heart of the storm and brought three of his clients down alive. Here is his a...
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Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd

By: Barry Clifford, Paul Perry

Price: $6.00

Publisher: William Morrow: November 2003

Seller ID: 75639

ISBN: 0060185090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When history's most famous pirate, Captain Kidd, was hanged in 1701, he left behind a trail of treasure and treachery that stretched halfway around the world. For undersea explorer Barry Clifford, the biggest prize of all would be to find the Adventure Galley, Kidd's legendary pirate ship. In the world of pirate archaeology, it was the Holy Grail.With the help of the Discovery Channel, Clifford fields an expedition that includes some of America's top experts in shipwreck recovery. Their goal is to find, identify, and possibly excavate the remains of history's most famous pirate ship. The...
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The Complete On-Board Celestial Navigator

By: Bennett, George G.

Price: $15.01

Publisher: Intl Marine Pub: January 1999

Seller ID: 86724

ISBN: 0070071101

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Spiral bound
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Starfist: Flashfire

By: David Sherman, Dan Cragg

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Del Rey: March 2007

Seller ID: 34368

ISBN: 0345460553

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Packed with hard-core action written by battle-savvy combat veterans, the explosive Starfist series has become hugely popular across America. Now the saga of the courageous Marines continues in Flashfire, ""as the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) ventures to the edge of Human Space to fight a number of enemies . . . some on their own side. Tensions erupt between the Confederation and several frontier worlds when civilians are shot dead at an army base on the planet Ravenette. Enraged, the Ravenette government and nine neighboring planets form a coalition, and their first act of secess...
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

By: Dean King

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 2005

Seller ID: 68710

ISBN: 0316159352

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara. The ordeal of these men - who found themselves tested by barbarism, murder, starvation, death, dehydration, and hostile tribes that roamed the desert on camelback - is made indelibly vivid in this gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.
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Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center

By: Dennis Smith

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: March 2002

Seller ID: 76015

ISBN: 067003116X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The tragic events of September 11, 2001 forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattan's Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue efforts. In the weeks that followed, Smith was present on the front lines, attending the wounded, sifting through the wreckage, and mourning with New York's devastated fire and police departments.This is Smith's vivid account of the rescue efforts by the fire and police departments and emergency medical t...
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Louis Jolliet, explorer of rivers

By: Eifert, Virginia Louise Snider

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead: January 1961

Seller ID: 85363

ISBN: B0006AXA3I

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Never Cry Wolf

By: Farley Mowat

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bantam: October 1983

Seller ID: 33673

ISBN: 0553236245

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Proving Ground : The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race

By: G. Bruce Knecht

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Little Brown & Co: June 2001

Seller ID: 81466

ISBN: 0316499552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On December 26, 1998, 115 sailboats set out on the annual race from Sydney to Hobart; only 43 would make it to the Tasmanian city, the race having turned into the worst modern sailing disaster since the 1979 Fastnet Race. Combining the best elements of The Perfect Storm (W.W. Norton, 1997) and Barbarians at the Gate (HarperCollins, 1990), "The Proving Ground" is a gripping narrative that follows the fates of three yachts, including Sayonara, owned by Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle. From the chilling explanation of how an Olympic sailor came to be catapulted from a yacht and why its crew ...
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Homeward Bound (Death Lands)

By: James Axler

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Gold Eagle: January 1989

Seller ID: 33946

ISBN: 0373625057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir

By: Jerry Linenger

Price: $7.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education: January 2000

Seller ID: 80410

ISBN: 007136112X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"An engrossing report."--Booklist "Vividly captures the challenges and privations Dr. Linenger] endured both before and during his flight."--Library Journal Nothing on earth compares to Off the Planet--Dr. Jerry Linenger's dramatic account of space exploration turned survival mission during his 132 days aboard the decaying and unstable Russian space station Mir. Not since Apollo 13 has an American astronaut faced so many catastrophic malfunctions and life-threatening emergencies in one mission. In his remarkable narrative, Linenger chronicles power outages that left the crew in complete darkn...
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Kayaks Down the Nile

By: John Goddard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: N/A: January 1979

Seller ID: 24087

ISBN: 0842515755

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Wingman

By: Mack Maloney

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Zebra Books: March 1987

Seller ID: 33971

ISBN: 0821720155

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Not Without Hope

By: Nick Schuyler,JereÌ Longman

Price: $6.00

Publisher: William Morrow: March 2010

Seller ID: 80485

ISBN: 0061993999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

On February 28, 2009, Nick Schuyler, a twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, left for a deep-sea fishing trip with three friends: NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, and Will Bleakley, his best friend, who once played football for the University of South Florida.It was supposed to be a day of fun and relaxation aboard Cooper's twenty-one-foot boat, which anchored seventy miles west of Tampa, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The friends were out to catch some amberjack and grouper and maybe a few sharks. They planned to drink a few beers, have some laughs, and get home before an a...
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

By: Robert Kurson

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House: June 2004

Seller ID: 76021

ISBN: 0375508589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery-and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of su...
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The Ra Expeditions

By: Thor Heyerdahl

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Doubleday: August 1971

Seller ID: 76018

ISBN: 0385000987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

English edition. Dust jacket is worn.
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A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg

By: Tim Cahill

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: February 1989

Seller ID: 44959

ISBN: 067972026X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Travels Through France and Italy (Marlboro Travel)

By: Tobias Smollett

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Marlboro Press: October 1997

Seller ID: 28298

ISBN: 0810160536

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Traduced by malice, persecuted by fiction, abandoned by false patrons, and overwhelmed by the sense of a domestic calamity," Tobias Smollett set off on a journey through France and Italy to relieve his despair. While there, he wrote regularly to his friends, and the result is this fascinating, wholeheartedly personal account of places and he encountered. "Travels through France and Italy" is a landmark work in travel literature. Full of prejudice, grousing, sharp observation, and caustic satire, it is the first travel book in modern literature to go beyond the simple conveyance of informa...
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