 | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (P.S.) by Sebastian Junger
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $0.01 One of my favorites...adventure and survival...good movie too.
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 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.47 A classic...I love the writing style of Jon Krakauer...
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 | Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett
Buy used from: $40.55 A real sleeper...excellent story contrasting two very different approaches to group survival...
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 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $2.96 Great story about a boy forced into soldierdom in the African mayhem...and he survived the experience to write about it...crushing at times
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 | In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.00 Incredible story...hard to believe its true and people survived to tell about it...
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 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.01 This is an amazing, and true, story about the human spirit and how a strong leader can will people to survive...
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 | The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.19 Couldn't put this one down...facts may be a little exaggerated but still a great read...
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 | Flags of Our Fathers (Movie Tie-in Edition) by James Bradley
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.10 WWII classic...the movie is excellent too but read the book first...
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 | Papillon (P.S.) by Henri Charriere
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $3.00 Saw the movie first...the book is just as good...a bit too detailed at times but well worth it...
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 | Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.38 Modern day true story about treasure hunters who persist to discover an incredible piece of history...
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 | Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $11.85 Modern day survival story about staying alive in the Amazon...
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy used from: $7.01 A mountain climbing expedition gone awry...tests the bonds of friendship...excellent read...
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 | Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $9.76 Modern day trip down the Congo River...hard to believe that such chaos exists today...
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 | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.00 Writer goes undercover as a prison guard at Sing Sing...a good read...
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 | Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.00 A great modern day story about how one man took on a whole country...and the battle to find him...
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 | The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.24 Great story about Teddy Roosevelt who almost died on this trip down an unchartered feeder river to the Amazon...
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 | Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II by Brendan I. Koerner
Buy used from: $1.25 WW II soldier loses it in the jungles of Malaysia...
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 | Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 Learned much about WW II, The Japanese involvement, the make up of Pilots during WWII and the coming of age of fighter planes as instruments of warfare...
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 | Mutiny On The Globe by Heffernan Thomas
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $2.33 Whaling expedition...
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 | Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.29 Crushing story about shipwreck and survival in the desert...
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 | Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.50 Starts off a little slow partly due to the terminology of the period...but it builds and gets very interesting...
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 | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Didn't expect much from this at first...but a gripping story...
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