The Essential Man's Library: 50 Non-Fiction Adventure Books

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A list of 50 essential books of non-fiction adventure stories compiled by the website artofmanliness.com in 2009.
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996) (tekijä: Stephen E. Ambrose)
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (1965) (tekijä: Anonymous)
The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas (2003) (tekijä: Todd Balf)
Yli maan äären (2003) (tekijä: Laurence Bergreen)
This Accursed Land (1977) (tekijä: Lennard Bickel)
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) (tekijä: David Breashears)
On Horseback through Asia Minor (1985) (tekijä: Frederick Burnaby)
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986) (tekijä: Steven Callahan)
Death in the Long Grass (1977) (tekijä: Peter H. Capstick)
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (1994) (tekijä: Andrew Chaikin)
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) (tekijä: Apsley Cherry-Garrard)
The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) (1986) (tekijä: Christopher Columbus)
Ihmissyöjätiikereitä (1944) (tekijä: Jim Corbett)
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (2001) (tekijä: Martin Dugard)
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (2003) (tekijä: Martin Dugard)
Brazilian Adventure (1933) (tekijä: Peter Fleming)
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival (2009) (tekijä: Yossi Ghinsberg)
Z : Amazonin kadonnut kaupunki (2009) (tekijä: David Grann)
The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest (2000) (tekijä: Bear Grylls)
Elämäni tutkimusmatkailijana (1925) (tekijä: Sven Hedin)
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole (2005) (tekijä: Bruce Henderson)
Annapurna 8000 metriä (1951) (tekijä: Maurice Herzog)
Lautalla yli Tyynenmeren (1948) (tekijä: Thor Heyerdahl)
High Adventure (1955) (tekijä: Edmund Hillary)
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe) (1983) (tekijä: Peter Hopkirk)
K2, the Savage Mountain (1954) (tekijä: Charles S. Houston)
Meren raivo (1997) (tekijä: Sebastian Junger)
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (2004) (tekijä: Dean King)
Erämaan armoille (1996) (tekijä: Jon Krakauer)
Jäätäviin korkeuksiin : murhenäytelmä Mount Everestillä (1996) (tekijä: Jon Krakauer)
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold (2006) (tekijä: Frank T. Kryza)
Kestävyys Shackletonin uskomaton matka Etelämantereelle (1959) (tekijä: Alfred Lansing)
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542) (tekijä: ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA)
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (2001) (tekijä: Jamling Tenzing Norgay)
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) (tekijä: J. H. Patterson)
Kamppailu merta vastaan : valaanpyyntialus Essexin tarina (2000) (tekijä: Nathaniel Philbrick)
Marco Polon matkat (1298) (tekijä: Marco Polo)
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) (tekijä: John Wesley Powell)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004) (tekijä: Aron Ralston)
Elossa! : ensimmäinen autenttinen kertomus Andien lento-onnettomuudesta - ihmisistä jotka kokivat helvetin ja selvisivät hengissä (1974) (tekijä: Piers Paul Read)
Valaita ja miehiä : valaanpyynnissä Eteläisellä jäämerellä (1954) (tekijä: R.B. Robertson)
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) (tekijä: Theodore Roosevelt)
Siipien sankarit (1939) (tekijä: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
South: The Endurance Expedition (1919) (tekijä: Ernest Shackleton)
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (1988) (tekijä: Joe Simpson)
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001) (tekijä: Doug Stanton)
Arabian Sands (1959) (tekijä: Wilfred Thesiger)
The Marsh Arabs (Penguin Classics) (1964) (tekijä: Wilfred Thesiger)
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1905) (tekijä: Reuben Gold Thwaites)
Jenkkejä maailmalla (1869) (tekijä: Mark Twain)

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