 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $0.01 Krakauer's well written account fully deserved its bestseller status
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 | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
Buy used from: $0.01 The book is WAY better than the movie.
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 | The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History by Peter Maas
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 | Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party by Peter R. Limburg
Buy used from: $9.99 Fascinating portrait of some of history's unluckiest settelers
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 | The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Buy new: $13.23 / Used from: $5.98 Fantastic account from one of America's foremost history writers
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 | Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.46 Galveston hurricane was America's deadliest disaster
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 | Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean
Buy used from: $2.31 Firefighters die engaging a raging forest fire.
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 | The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome by Jim Carrier
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.49 Hurricane Mitch sinks a cruise ship and destroys Honduras
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 | A First-Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole by Diana Preston
Buy used from: $0.50 The Scott expedition and Antartica's most famous disaster.
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 | Knockdown : The Harrowing True Story of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly by Martin Dugard
Buy used from: $0.09 Yacht race in Australia turns deadly.
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 | Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition by Leonard F. Guttridge
Buy used from: $0.45 America's ill-fated polar expedition.
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 | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 Shipwreck survivors resort to cannibalism.
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 | The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone by Mckay Jenkins
Buy used from: $0.01 Avalanche claims promising young climbers in Glacier National Park.
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 | Lost at Sea by Patrick Dillon
Buy used from: $0.32 Hazardous duty on a fishing boat in Alaska.
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 | Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition by Scott Cookman
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $1.28 The demise of the ill-fated Franklin expedition.
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