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Extreme Classics: 100 Greatest Adventure Books
(National Geographic Adventure)
My Journey to Lhasa
by Alexandra David-Neel
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1927 |
Rank:
55
Wind, Sand & Stars
by
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1940 |
Rank:
3
Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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| Call Number: Electronic Resources | Publication Date: 1922 |
Rank:
1
West With the Night
by Beryl Markham
| Call Number: DT365.75.M3 M3 | Publication Date: 1942 |
Rank:
8
Voyage of the Beagle
by Charles Darwin
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The grand old man of modern biology was a gentleman of leisure, a crack shot, and no scientist when, at 22, he boarded the Beagle for its long survey voyage to South America and the Pacific. His record of the trip is rich in anthropology and science. (His shipmates called him 'the Fly-catcher.') The adventure comes in watching over Darwin's shoulder as he works out the first glimmerings of his theory of evolution.| Call Number: QH11 .D2 Electronic Resource | Publication Date: 1839 |
Rank:
23
by Charles Houston and Robert Bates
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1954 |
Rank:
46
Spirit of St. Louis
by Charles Lindbergh
| Call Number: TL540.L5 A85 | Publication Date: 1953 |
Rank:
19
Travels in Arabia Deserta
by Charles M. Doughty
During his two years in the desert, Doughty traveled with camel caravans, lived in Bedouin tents, went hungry, and faced much danger. Then he wrote it all up in the most stylized, peculiar prose, which nevertheless gives us a fascinating picture of a type of Arab life that has been all but forgotten today.| Call Number: DS207 .D73 1953 | Publication Date: 1888 |
Rank:
51
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
by Clarence King
| Call Number: F868 .S5 K542 1997 EB | Publication Date: 1872 |
Rank:
54
Man Who Walked Through Time
by Colin Fletcher
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1968 |
Rank:
45
The Mountain of My Fear
by David Roberts
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1968 |
Rank:
28
Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
by David Roberts (1968, 1970) "The deepest despair I have ever felt,
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1970 |
Rank:
28
Home of the Blizzard
by Douglas Mawson
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1915 |
Rank:
22
Desert Solitaire
by Edward Abbey
| Call Number: PS3551.B2 Z463 1988 | Publication Date: 1968 |
Rank:
7
Scrambles Amongst the Alps
by Edward Whymper
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1871 |
Rank:
36
Stranger in the Forest
by Eric Hansen
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1988 |
Rank:
50
Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
by Eric Newby
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1958 |
Rank:
16
South
by Ernest Shackleton
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Shackleton's story bears endless retelling (and it has been retold, in fine accounts by Alfred Lansing and, more recently, Caroline Alexander). Here we have it in the great British explorer's own words, quiet, understated, enormously compelling. We all know the story: the expedition to Antarctica in the Endurance, the ship breaking up in the ice, the incredible journey in an open boat across the world's stormiest seas. Though Shackleton's literary gifts may not equal those of Cherry-Garrard or Nansen, his book is a testament, plain and true, to what human beings can endure.| Call Number: G850 1914.S53 S53 2009 EB | Publication Date: 1919 |
Rank:
15
Endurance
by F.A. Worsley
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Worsley was the captain of the Endurance, escaped with Shackleton when their ship was crushed, and bore what they all bore. He navigated that heroic open-boat journey to South Georgia island, through weather that was so bad he could take sights on the sun only four times in 800 miles (1300 km). Still, they hit the island square on. Nice. His account is brisker than the thorough Shackleton's, but keeps the excitement intact.| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1931 |
Rank:
35
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
by Francis Chichester
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1967 |
Rank:
47
Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
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In 1846, the future historian of the American West went west himself, following the trail of the emigrant trains into the Rockies. 'A month ago,' he writes along the way, 'I should have thought it rather a startling affair to have an acquaintance ride out in the morning and lose his scalp before night, but here it seems the most natural thing in the world.' Generations of readers have loved this book; you will, too.| Call Number: F592 .P284 2010 EB | Publication Date: 1849 |
Rank:
31
Farthest North
by Fridtjof Nansen
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1893, Nansen purposely froze his ship into the Arctic ice and traveled with the drift of the pack. When the ship approached striking distance of the Pole, he set out for it by dogsled, reaching the highest latitude yet attained by man before turning back to Norway. He was gone three years. The book is both an epic and a lyric masterpiece.| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1897 |
Rank:
11
Starlight and Storm
by
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1954 |
Rank:
41
Journey Without Maps
by Graham Greene
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1936 |
Rank:
40
Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1953 |
Rank:
20
Through the Dark Continent
by Henry M. Stanley
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1878 |
Rank:
32
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella L. Bird
Bird was no lady in the conventional Victorian sense but a world traveler. She ventured through the Rockies when they were still wild, met up with grizzly bears, and climbed Longs Peak when it was thought impossible for a woman to do so. She had to thaw her ink on the cabin stove to write, and she wrote delightfully.| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1879 |
Rank:
33
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
| Call Number: DT433 .D56 1985 | Publication Date: 1937 |
Rank:
37
Journals
by James Cook
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1779 |
Rank:
21
To Conquer the Air
by James Tobin
| Call Number: TL540.W7 T63 2003 | Publication Date: 2003 |
Rank:
101
Man-Eaters of Kumaon
by Jim Corbett
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1944 |
Rank:
48
Running the Amazon
by Joe Kane
| Call Number: F2546 .K19 1989 | Publication Date: 1989 |
Rank:
57
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig
by John Gilmette
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 2003 |
Rank:
101
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
by John Hanning Speke
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1996 |
Rank:
56
My First Summer in the Sierra
by John Muir
In the summer of 1869, young and fresh, Muir traveled through the Sierra Nevada with a shepherd and his flock. This book is his journal, and it, too, is young and fresh. Muir, who would become a legendary advocate for wilderness and the founder of the Sierra Club, always played down the dangers he faced. But this book is full, nevertheless, of bears. And charm. It reminds you of how much wildness we have lost.| Call Number: QH31.M9 A3 1997 | Publication Date: 1911 |
Rank:
42
Exploration of the Colorado River
by John Wesley Powell
| Call Number: F788 .P886 1957 | Publication Date: 1975 |
Rank:
4
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
| Call Number: GV199.44.E85 K725 1997 | Publication Date: 1997 |
Rank:
9
Sailing Alone Around the World
by Joshua Slocum
At loose ends and in your 50s, what better way to pass the time than to sail alone around the world? The journey took three years and covered 46,000 miles (74,000 kilometer); Slocum was chased by pirates, survived major storms, suffered hallucinations. But he made it. He was the first to do it alone. Then he wrote this marvelous, salty book. In 1909, he put to sea again. This time, he disappeared.| Call Number: G440 .S63 S56 2008 EB | Publication Date: 1900 |
Rank:
27
Travels
by Marco Polo
Polo dictated these tales to a scribe, a writer of romances named Rustichello, while the two men shared a cell in a Genoese prison. Just how much Rustichello added to the text nobody knows. Yet most of what Polo tells us about his overland journey to Asia checks out. He traveled during a relatively peaceful time, so this is not a book about taking physical risks. Nor is it as accessible to modern readers as many of the books on this list. Yet it is without question the founding adventure book of the modern world. Polo gave to the age of exploration that followed the marvels of the East, the strange customs, the fabulous riches, the tribes with gold teeth. It was a Book of Dreams, an incentive, a goad. Out of it came Columbus (whose own copy of the book was heavily annotated), Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and the rest of modern history.| Call Number: G370 .P72 1958 | Publication Date: 1298 |
Rank:
10
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow
by Maria Coffey
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 2003 |
Rank:
101
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
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Twain lit out for the territory when the Civil War started and knocked around the West for six years. Roughing It is the record of that time, a great comic bonanza, hilarious when it isn't simply funny, full of the most outrageous characters and events. It is not an adventure book, it is an anti-adventure book, but no less indispensable.| Call Number: PS1318 .A1 2010 EB | Publication Date: 1972 |
Rank:
13
Travels in West Africa
by Mary Kingsley
| Call Number: DT472 .K53 2009 EB | Publication Date: 1897 |
Rank:
18
Annapurna
by Maurice Herzog
| Call Number: DS485.H6 H434 | Publication Date: 1952 |
Rank:
6
Journals
by Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
Are there two American explorers more famous? Were there any braver? When they left St. Louis in 1804 to find a water route to the Pacific, no one knew how extensive the Rocky Mountains were or even exactly where they were, and the land beyond was terra incognita. Lewis and Clark's Journals are the closest thing we have to a national epic, and they are magnificent, full of the wonder of the Great West. Here are the first sightings of the vast prairie dog cities; here are huge bears that keep on coming at you with five or six bullets in them, Indian tribes with no knowledge of white men, the mountains stretching for a thousand miles; here are the long rapids, the deep snows, the ways of the Sioux, Crow, Assiniboin; here are buffalo by the millions. Here is the West in its true mythic proportions.| Call Number: F592.4 .L49 2001 V.8 EB | Publication Date: 1814 |
Rank:
2
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
by Mungo Park
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1799 |
Rank:
25
Sea of Glory
by Nathaniel Philbrick
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 2003 |
Rank:
101
Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1978 |
Rank:
12
Alive
by Piers Paul Read
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1974 |
Rank:
58
In Trouble Again
by Redmond O'Hanlon
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1988 |
Rank:
44
First Footsteps in East Africa
by Richard Burton
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1856 |
Rank:
29
Alone
by Richard Byrd
| Call Number: G875 .B9 A32 1984 EB | Publication Date: 1938 |
Rank:
49
Principal Navigations
by Richard Hakluyt
ABRIDGED VERSION: Hakluyt believed that England should rule the seas and develop colonies before Spain gobbled up the whole world, and he compiled this book to fire the ambitions of his countrymen. At a million and a half words, it's less a book than an encyclopedia, packed with exploration and adventure stories that run from the tales of King Arthur to Drake, Raleigh, and beyond. It was, of course, influential beyond measure.| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1589 |
Rank:
59
Royal Road to Romance
by Richard Halliburton
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1925 |
Rank:
52
Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard Henry Dana
Scion of a prominent Boston family, Dana dropped out of Harvard and, hoping to recover the strength of his eyes, weakened by measles, signed on with a merchant ship as a common sailor. His book about his time at sea is an American classic, vivid in its description of the sailor's life and all its dangers and delights.| Call Number: G540 .D36 2008 EB | Publication Date: 1840 |
Rank:
14
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
by Robert Falcon Scott
| Call Number: G850 1910.S4 S358 2006 EB | Publication Date: 1913 |
Rank:
38
Perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
by Sebastian Junger
Waves ten stories high, hurricane-force winds, longline swordfish fishermen and their wives and girlfriends, bad omens, National Guard air-rescue teams, heroism, fear, and the bars of Gloucester, Massachusetts: Junger has a gift for gathering the elements, if you will, of his story, dramatizing them and impressing the hell out of you with the power of weather.| Call Number: QC945 .J66 1999 | Publication Date: 1997 |
Rank:
30
Long Walk
by Slavomir Rawicz
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1956 |
Rank:
52
My Life as an Explorer
by Sven Hedin
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1925 |
Rank:
43
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
| Call Number: D568.4 .L4 1935B C2 | Publication Date: 1926 |
Rank:
24
Everest: The West Ridge
by Thomas Hornbein
| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1965 |
Rank:
39
Kon-Tiki
by Thor Heyerdahl
| Call Number: G530 .H463 1950a | Publication Date: 1950 |
Rank:
17
Darkest Jungle
by Todd Balf
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| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 2003 |
Rank:
101
Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
| Call Number: TL789.8.U5 W64 | Publication Date: 1979 |
Rank:
26
In the Land of White Death
by Valerian Albanov
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In 1912, two dozen men on a Russian ship found themselves frozen into the Arctic ice. Eleven tried to walk out. In the end, two made it back to civilization; Albanov was one of them. It's a great survival story, well told, and (at least until its recent reissue, which was excerpted in Adventure, November/December 2000) virtually unknown in the English-speaking world.| Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1917 |
Rank:
34
Arabian Sands
by Wilfred Thesiger
The southern Arabian desert, a quarter million square miles of sand (650,000 square kilometers), is now a place of oil wells and Land Rovers, but before the 1950s it was still known as the Empty Quarter, a place you entered only on camel and only as an Arab. Only a few white men had ever seen it, much less crossed it. From 1945 to 1950, the British Thesiger crossed it twice, living with the Bedouin, sharing their hard lives. His book is the classic of desert exploration, a door opening on a vanished feudal world. It is a book of touches, little things-why the Bedouin will never predict the weather ('since to do so would be to claim knowledge that belongs to God'), how they know when the rabbit is in its hole and can be caught. It is written with great respect for these people and with an understanding that acknowledges its limits. With humility, that is, which is appropriate. Fail the humility test, and the desert will surely kill you.| Call Number: DS208 .T48 | Publication Date: 1959 |
Rank:
5
