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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

Featuring Doug Scott's account of saving himself by crawling off Pakistan's Ogre with two broken leg
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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....
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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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Unknown horizon: Page Bryant psychic in the Devil's Triangle (Zebra books)

By: Chaplin, James Paul

Price: $10.01

Publisher: Kensington Pub. Corp: January 1976

Seller ID: 93145

ISBN: B0006YJGKA

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Quite a few pages contain underlining in blue pen. First Printing, January 1976. Cover has slight shelf wear.
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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 thei...
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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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Last American

By: Heine, W.

Price: $297.01

Publisher: Paperjacks: March 1986

Seller ID: 91438

ISBN: 0770102808

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

13th Printing, 1984. Cover has slight shelf wear, remainder marking on the bottom.
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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 darkness, tu...
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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

Emergency Disaster Survival Guidebook

By: King, Doug

Price: $4.00

Publisher: ABC Preparedness Co: January 1999

Seller ID: 89424

ISBN: 1883736102

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Did you know that three out of five families will be affected by a disaster or a crime in the next five years? Did you know that most 72-hour kits lack a useable shelter and other vital necessities? Did you know that many companies' year's supply measures out to a starvation ration of 1/2 cup of food per meal?With The Emergency-Disaster Survival Guidebook you can:
-- Learn simple and inexpensive crime-prevention techniques. You can employ just one of these right now to reduce the chance of a criminal entering your house by 50%.
-- Be prepared for power and heat outages or becoming lost ...
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Wingman

By: Mack Maloney

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Zebra Books: March 1987

Seller ID: 33971

ISBN: 0821720155

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the radioactive wreckage of tomorrow, one man is the last hope of a ravaged America. More savagely driven than Mad Max, the fearless jet fighter pilot known as Wingman takes on the enemy in this searing adventure of the future.
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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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Annotated Sailing Alone Around The World

By: Slocum, Joshua Capt.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Sheridan House: March 2009

Seller ID: 88232

ISBN: 1574092758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After an epic journey lasting over three years, Joshua Slocum succeeded in becoming the first man to sail single-handed around the world. This is his account of that voyage in the form of a magical diary.
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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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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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Counter Clockwise

By: Westling, Mr. John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Independently published: October 2018

Seller ID: 59605

ISBN: 1729298060

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

John Westling takes on the challenge of his lifetime in this action packed novel about a voyage taken by an old surfer, now a budding curmudgeon. With the odds against them, John and his best friend Richie set off into the unknown, circumnavigating Vancouver Island, British Columbia in separate boats. Dangerous encounters cause them to question their decision, but failure is not an option. Together, they are forced to run from the weather, abandon plans, and constantly adapt to ever changing adversity.A true test of commitment and skills, and aided by two boatloads of incredible luck, this nov...
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Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

By: William Stevenson

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: November 2006

Seller ID: 22104

ISBN: 1559707631

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the bestselling author of A Man Called Intrepid comes the first and only biography of Vera Atkins, of whom James Bond creator Ian Fleming said, 'In the real world of spies, Vera Atkins was the boss.' Vera Atkins was an attractive young woman with smoky eyes and lustrous black hair. She belonged to a wealthy family and dined with ambassadors and kings. She could have been a socialite, but in the cataclysmic days of World War II, Vera Atkins became Great Britain's spymistress.
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