Expeditions
Expeditions Books
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Best Sellers in Expeditions Books
1ATLAS OBSCURA
By Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
A dense (nearly 500 pages) richly documented ultimate explorer's guide to more than 700 hidden marvels, events and curiosities around the world.
Read more about this book...2DEAD WAKE
By Erik Larson
The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915; by the author of “The Devil in the White City.”
Read more about this book...3SULLY
By Chesley B Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow
A memoir by the pilot who performed the successful emergency landing of a plane with 155 passengers on the Hudson River in 2009. The basis for the movie.
Read more about this book...4WILD
By Cheryl Strayed
A woman’s account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. A 2014 movie.
Read more about this book...5BARBARIAN DAYS
By William Finnegan
This Pulitzer Prize-winning surfing chronicle and memoir by a New Yorker writer celebrates a lifelong obsession.
Read more about this book...6THE INVENTION OF NATURE
By Andrea Wulf
The life of the visionary German explorer, scientist and naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt.
Read more about this book...7THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
By David McCullough
The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
Read more about this book...8IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
By Nathaniel Philbrick
The sinking of the New England whaleship Essex in 1820, by a sperm whale. The basis of the movie.
Read more about this book...9THE OREGON TRAIL
By Rinker Buck
The author and his brother travel 2,000 miles by mule and wagon from Missouri to Oregon.
Read more about this book...10PACIFIC
By Simon Winchester
A biography of the Pacific Ocean.
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