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.
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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.
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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.
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