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Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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by Bill Bryson
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.
by Rinker Buck
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsAn epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way—in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century.
by Howard F. Mosher
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsFrom bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.
by Mark Obmascik
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsWhen Mark Obmascik's twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug, he can't resist the opportunity for some father-son bonding. But after their first joint climb, Obmascik decides to scale all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains - and to do them in less than one year.
by Sean Wilsey, Matt Weiland
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsEdited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, State by State is a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation.
by Charles Frazier
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsAt the age of twelve, Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent to run a remote Indian trading post. There he is adopted by a Cherokee chief, and falls in love with a girl he won in a card game.
by Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsAs spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm. His translucent prose is a sparkling and moving record of a bygone way of life.
by J. Maarten Troost
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsThe laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey on the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth.
by Rick Bragg
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother’s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.
by Linda Scott DeRosier
Published Jul 2002
Read ReviewsA humorous and poignant memoir of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. A story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present.
by Jon Krakauer
Published May 1998
Read ReviewsKrakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people to throw caution to the wind, and subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
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