Featured Fifty
 
[Search] [Business Books] [Scholarly Books] [Bargains] [Events] [About Us] [Contact Us] [Home]

August Featured 50: Adventure and Exploration
Books admired by our staff and discounted 20% during the month of August.
General Non-Fiction
Adventure & Exploration
Kids
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Fiction

True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna
David Roberts
$24.00 / HBS $19.20

Fifty years later, the definitive account of the first great Himalayan ascent.

High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
David Breashears
$15.00 pb / HBS $12.00

Moving and engrossing, this memoir by a celebrated filmaker and member of the climbing élite goes beyond Sir Edmund Hillary's quip, "Because it's there," to find meaning and hope at the top of the world.

Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson
$13.00 pb / HBS $10.40

On September 8, 1900, Galveston, Texas found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that destroyed the whole town and killed over six thousand people. Larson chronicles the heroic struggle and miscalculations of Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau. A suspenseful tale of human arrogance versus the forces of nature.

Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures
Michele Slung, Editor
$22.00 / HBS $17.60

A range of boldly adventurous women--from the nineteenth century through Y2K--tell their own stories. Culled from the National Geographic Society's 111-year-old collection of first-person narratives, including the exploits of astronaut Shannon Lucid, world-class climber Catherine Destiville, arctic explorer Helen Thayer, Victorian-era world-traveler Isabella Bird Bishop, and more than a dozen others.

Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers
Jane Robinson
$16.95 pb / HBS $13.56

From the lowliest kitchen skivvy to ambassador's wives, this book celebrates the emigrants who settled the wildernesses of the world in search of new and better lives.

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
Mary Lovell
$19.95 pb / HBS $15.96

Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right. "Meticulously researched, it overwhelms the other accounts."--The New Republic

Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard Blackburn, Hero Fisherman of Gloucester
Joseph E. Garland
$13.00 pb / HBS $10.40

"One of the most remarkable feats in the history of seafaring.... For all whose interests run to the never-ending conflict between man and the sea."--Henry Beetle Hough, The New York Times Book Review

The Water In Between: A Journey at Sea
Kevin Patterson
$23.95 / HBS $19.16

The author singlehandedly sailed The Sea Mouse across the North Pacific and through a four-day gale. Patterson's memoir tests the literature and reality of masculine adventure, cracking the illusion that man is best tested by loneliness and adversity.

Copyright 2000 Harvard Book Store      Phone: 800-542-READ FAX: 617-497-1158