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BOOKLISTS: Adventures and Journeys: Real and Fiction

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Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan (910.09163 Cal)
Adrift in the Atlantic in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft with only three pounds of food and eight pints of water, the author would drift for seventy-six days over eighteen hundred miles of ocean before he reached land and rescue.

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (919.9 Lan)
In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (796.52 Kra)
Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster is a highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe.

Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush by Pierre Berton (971.21 Ber)
As many as 100,000 adventurers and dreamers from all over the world struck out for the isolated gold fields in the Klondike Valley, most of them in total ignorance of the long, harsh Alaskan winters and the territory's indomitable terrain. Read their incredible story.

Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel (F Mar)
Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. When the ship sinks, Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, with a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Funny and inspiring.

Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins (917.98 Jen)
This is the author’s account of eighteen months spent traveling over twenty thousand miles in tiny bush planes, on snow machines and snowshoes, in fishing boats and kayaks, on the Alaska Marine Highway and the Haul Road, searching for what defines Alaska.

Running the Amazon by Joe Kane (918.11 Kan)
In 1985 a team of hand-picked adventurers, including writer Joe Kane, embarked on a journey that would take them to the remote headwaters of the Amazon Basin. But that was just the beginning of the trip. Their goal: to navigate the world's longest river from source to mouth, a feat never before recorded.

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger (974.45 jun)
In The Perfect Storm, author Sebastian Junger conjures for the reader the meteorological conditions that created the "storm of the century" and the impact the storm had on many of the people caught in it.

This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Stephen E. Ambrose (YA TF Ambrose)
Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, Ambrose creates the fictional diary of nineteen-year-old George Shannon, who was in fact the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.