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Author |
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Artic |
Edward
Beauclerk Maurice |
Personal story of living with Eskimos in the 1930's.
This
is a one book author, but a great book |
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Run
True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide |
Peter Allison |
Wonderful short chapters and very funny. |
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The Solace of Open Spaces |
Gretel Ehrlich |
About a woman who worked on sheep ranches in Wyoming, great
insight into the life of ranchers. |
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Log of a Cowboy |
Andy Adams
Written by the author decades
after his experience on one of the last cattle drives. |
True tale of one of the last
cattle drives from Texas, to the north to the rail road and northern
markets. Everything you read in Michener's Texas, or Larry McMurtry's
Lonesome Dove
was based on this book |
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River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey |
Candice Millard |
Great read about Teddy Roosevelt's expedition down the
Amazon, which ultimately was the cause of this death. |
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Nothing Like it in the World |
Stephen Ambrose |
Great Read- easy and informative about the building of
the transcontinental rail road in the 1860's, |
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson,
and the Opening of the American West |
Stephen Ambrose |
Great Book about the Lewis and Clarke Expedition |
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Under the Banner Of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith |
Jon Krakauer |
Great informative book about
the Mormon religion by an author that is better known for his outdoor
writing, |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest
Disaster |
Jon Krakauer |
I
Read this three times.
It is The true story of
the Everest Expedition which claimed the lives of a dozen people in the
1980's. |
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The
Wild |
Jon Krakauer |
The true story of a young man's
life and ultimate death in Alaska. |
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Seabiscuit |
Laura Hillenbrand |
Great story and insight on America and its love affair with
"Seabiscuit" the race horse. |
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The Last Place on Earth
( originally called “Scott and Amundsen) |
Roland Huntford |
I
Read this twice.
The true story of who and how
the south pole is first reached. |
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Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sear: The History and
Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck |
Gary Kinder |
Amazing story of the search and
recovery of the U.S.S. Central America, a side wheeler ship with 20 tons
of gold that sank in deep water in the 1860's. |
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 |
Jeffrey Kluger &
James Lovell |
Jim Lovell's perspective on
Apollo
13. I liked that book as well. |
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Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a N.A.
Salvage Tug |
Farley Mowat |
Tales of a Salvage-Rescue Tug based out of Northern Canada. |
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The Long Walk – The True Story of a Trek to Freedom |
Slavomir Rawicz |
True story of a Polish soldier who escapes from a
Siberian Gulag and walks to India, this is a one book author, but what a
book. |
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The Killer Angels |
Michael Shaara |
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Endurance |
Frank Arthur Worsley |
An unbelievable but true tale of
Ernest Shackleton and the experiences after the sinking of his ship: the Endurance. |
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity,
and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Simon Winchester |
History of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything |
Bill Bryson |
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the
Appalachian Trail |
Bill Bryson |
One of the Best Humorous Books
that is non fiction. |
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Caliban's Shore: The Wreck
of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors |
Stephan Taylor |
Returning from India
in the 19th century a ship is wrecked on the desolate South East coast of
Africa. |
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Water for Elephants: A Novel |
Sara
Gruen
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If you grew up in the mid 20th
century you might remember when the circus was real and mobile. |
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The Da Vinci Code |
Dan Brown |
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The End of the Road |
Tom Bodett |
Great humor about Homer, Alaska. |
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The Prince of Tides |
Pat Conroy |
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Hornblower: Young Hornblower |
C. S. Forester |
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Hornblower: Admiral Hornblower in
the West Indies |
C. S. Forester |
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Hornblower: Beat to Quarters |
C. S. Forester |
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower |
C. S. Forester |
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies |
C. S. Forester |
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Hornblower: During the Crisis |
C. S. Forester |
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Commodore Hornblower |
C. S. Forester |
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Flying Colors |
C. S. Forester |
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Ship of the Line |
C. S. Forester |
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Any of the books by
Tony Hillerman |
Tony Hillerman |
His books on the Native peoples of the four Corners are great detective
tales and offer an amazing insight into their culture. |
Any of the books by
John Grisham |
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Good lawyer stories. |
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Most of the "Spencer" books by Robert Parker |
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Boston detective tales that are quick to read, have humor and good
character development. |
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Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
If
you only saw the movie you will love the book, note that the
character Dill was based on Truman Capote, who was a childhood friend of
Harper Lee. |
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