Travel & Adventure: Perspective & Introspection

Explore transformative journeys with our top adventure books on travel, introspection, and fresh perspectives. Discover stories that inspire wanderlust and deep self-reflection.

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A Walk in the Woods

by Bill Bryson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the …
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Into Thin Air

by Jon Krakauer

Mr. Everest May 10 1996 personal account.
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Neither Here Nor There:

by Bill Bryson

Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later …
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In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail …
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Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months …
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The Long Walk

by Slavomir Rawicz

Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag. …
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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 …
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We Die Alone. [Illustr.]- New York: Macmillan 1955. X, 231 S. 8°

by David Armine Howarth

Adventures of Jan Baalsrud, a member of the Norwegian resistance during the World War.
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