My Favourite Adventure Books
Discover the best adventure books of all time, featuring gripping true stories like *Adrift*, *Seven Years in Tibet*, and *Tracks*. Explore daring travels, survival epics, and inspiring biographies in this curated list of top favourite adventure reads.
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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.
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Adrift
by Steven Callahan
The author recalls his seventy-six day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five foot inflatable raft, after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting his problems surviving the weather, shark attacks, raft leaks, and food and water shortages. Reprint.
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Simpson, Joe
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Tracks
by Robyn Davidson
The author recounts her almost two-thousand mile journey across Australia with nothing but a dog and some camels for company.