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True Adventures True Adventures All titles are available through Nassau Digital Doorway and the Libby app 438 days : an extraordinary To the edges of the Earth : true story of survival at sea 1909, the race for the three by Jonathan Franklin poles, and the climax of the An epic tale of survival: Salvador age of exploration Alvarenga's 14 months drifting at sea by Edward J. Larson during which he kept his body and An analysis of an exceptional year mind intact until he was rescued. during the peak of exploration that was marked by record-setting expeditions to the North and South Poles and the The moth and the mountain: a legendary K2 mountain in the Himalayas. true story of love, war, and Everest No way down: life and death by Ed Caesar on K2 Documents the redemption journey of by Graham Bowley traumatized Great War veteran Ed A dramatic account of the worst Caesar, who in 1933 flew a biplane to disaster in the history of mountain Everest to attempt a first solo ascent. climbing on K2, the world's second highest peak. West with the night by Beryl Markham Beryl Markham's life story is a true Ice ghosts: the epic hunt for epic. Not only did she set records and the lost Franklin expedition break barriers as a pilot, she shattered by Paul Watson societal expectations, threw herself into A member of the expedition that torrid love affairs, survived desperate discovered the wreck of HMS Erebus in crash landings. 2014 describes how an unlikely combination of marine science and Pirate hunters: treasure, Inuit knowledge helped solve the obsession, and the search mystery of the Lost Franklin Expedition for a legendary pirate ship of 1845. by Robert Kurson Traces the high-stakes quest of John Tip of the iceberg: my Mattera and Shadow Divers' Chatterton 3,000-mile journey around to find the lost pirate ship of Joseph wild Alaska, the last great Bannister. American frontier by Mark Adams In Patagonia A fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled by Bruce Chatwin journey into Alaska, America's last An account of Chatwin's journey frontier, using Alaska's intricate public through Patagonia, where he searched ferry system to recreate the historic for almost-forgotten legends, Butch 1899 Harriman Expedition. Cassidy's log cabin, and the descendants of Welsh immigrants. True Adventures The lost city of Z : a tale of Icebound : shipwrecked at deadly obsession in the the edge of the world Amazon by Andrea Pitzer by David Grann The remarkable survival tale of 16th- Interweaves the story of British explorer century Dutch explorer Williams Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a Barents, whose obsessive quest to 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with chart the remote regions of the Arctic Grann's quest uncover the mysteries of Fawcett's final led to 3 harrowing expeditions. journey and what really lies deep in the Amazon jungle. Adrift: 76 days lost at sea Into Thin Air by Steven Callahan by Jon Krakauer An account of a 76-day ordeal adrift in A spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest ended in the Atlantic in a 5-foot inflatable aftr disaster, claiming the lives of eight after his sailboat sank, recounting his climbers. The author explains why he problems surviving the weather, shark survived, in a definitive, firsthand account attacks, raft leaks, and food and water of the tragedy. shortages. The falcon thief: a true tale of To shake the sleeping self adventure, treachery, and the by Jedidiah Jenkins hunt for the perfect bird A travel writer and popular Instagrammer describes how he quit by Joshua Hammer his job at age 30 and spent over a year The story of Irish national Jeffrey Lendrum cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. and his globetrotting adventures as a smuggler of rare birds, and British wildlife detective Andy McWilliam's efforts to protect the world’s endangered birds of prey. In the kingdom of ice : the Endurance : Shackleton's grand and terrible polar incredible voyage voyage of the USS Jeannette by Alfred Lansing by Hampton Sides Recounts the 19-century naval The ship of polar explorer Ernest expedition to the North Pole that Shackleton became immobilized by ice for resulted in the sinking of the USS 10-months on his 1914 expedition to Jeannette and the crew's struggle for Antarctica, resulting in an 850-mile survival in the unforgiving Arctic journey with only a skeleton crew environment. remaining. A woman in Arabia : the The adventurer's son by Roman Dial writings of the Queen of the An Alaska Pacific University scientist Desert and National Geographic Explorer by Gertrude Lowthian Bell recounts his two-year effort to uncover Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, the fate of his adventurer son, who in writer, poet, linguist, and spy, Bell was 2014 disappeared into an untracked one of the great woman adventurers of rainforest in Costa Rica. the twentieth century. Long Beach Public Library 111 West Park Ave Long Beach, New York 11561 | 516-432-7201 www.longbeachlibrary.org.
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