Category: Adventure
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
Eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared…
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The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
A girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, 300 years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island…
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
Synopsis The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry–with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter–in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides In August 1897, thirty-one-year-old commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail aboard the Belgica, fueled…
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Float Plan by Trish Doller
Heartbroken by the loss of her fiancé, adventurous Anna finds a second chance at love with an Irish sailor in this riveting, emotional romance.
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole.
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the “Golden Age” of piracy in the Americas.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages #3) by Jules Verne
The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano…
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex.
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures…
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Cowman’s Wife Western Ballads by Dee Strickland Johnson
Cowboy poetry, western ballads, and original art. Will Rogers award in 1997 for the “Female Cowboy Poet of the Year” by the Academy of Western Artists.
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The Boy Who Spoke to the Earth by Chris Burkard
When a young boy asks the Earth where he can find happiness, the Earth agrees to show him the way.
