Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft55 reviews Thor Heyerdahl Pocket, 1990 Five Stars for Adventure, One for Archaeology + Kontiki paperback received + Non-Fiction + An impossible almost crazy epic adventure + Hippies before their time             Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent (Bison Book)3 reviews LeRoy R. Hafen University of Nebraska Press, 1981 Outstanding tribute to a great man + One of the colosal figures of the old West + incredible portrayal of the expansion of the west This was an excellent book! It is a vivid, comprehensive and sweeping biography of a most important and influential man of the early American West. At the age of twenty four, Thomas Fitzpatrick started out with Ashley's expedition of 1823 as a fur trapper going up the Missouri River. The following ...             Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival140 reviews Joe Simpson Perennial, 1989 An Incredible Story + WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + Edge of your seat + (4.5 stars) Absolutely unforgettable - Not just for adventurers + Quick and Amazing Read             Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West344 reviews Stephen Ambrose Simon & Schuster, 1997 Undaunted Courage + Extraordinary + GREAT AMERICAN JOURNEY - MUST READ LEWIS & CLARK + The tale of the Lewis and Clark expedition + Ambrose at his Best             My Life as an Indian9 reviews J. W. Schultz Dover Publications, 1997 Buffalo culture of the Piegan Blackfeet + One of my all-time favorite books. + Well worth reading + Wonderful book! + A spellbinding tale!             The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom289 reviews Slavomir Rawicz The Lyons Press, 2006 A good read. + Human endurance is unbelievable + Incredible if True, Enthralling if Fiction... + Truly Horrendous Tale but with a Happy Ending             Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction)182 reviews Piers Paul Read Avon, 1975 A horrifyingly true story of triumph and tragedy + Alive + Staying alive against the odds + Incredible Survival Story             Floating Brothel, The: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female ...17 reviews Sian Rees Hyperion, 2002 History Written To Make The Reader Feel Like They Were Really There. + ordinary people doing extraordinary things at sea + Great Historic Book + Fascinating event brought to life + Great Story             In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex278 reviews Nathaniel Philbrick Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001 Whaling Might Not be the Way to Go + Well Done + Captivating Story of Tragedy and Survival + A whale of a story             Into the Wild1175 reviews Jon Krakauer Anchor, 1997 One of the best ever + A good complement to a much better movie + A Great Lesson in What Not to Do and How Not to Live (and Die) + Great book by talented writer + Into the Wild review             The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas10 reviews Todd Balf Crown, 2003 EXCELLENT...I live in Panamá and should know!!! + Gringo Arrogance + good reading by accident + DEATH AND DREAMS + Truly the Darkest Jungle             West with the Night119 reviews Beryl Markham North Point Press, 1982 West with the Night + Reads like fiction + Far far better than I anticipated. Great writing. + West with the Night + More than a memoir             The White Headhunter: The Story of a 19-Century Sailor Who Survived a South Seas Heart of Darkness Nigel Randell Basic Books, 2004 In 1868, Jack Renton, a teenage Scots sailor, was shanghaied in San Francisco. In 1876, he was rescued from captivity on the Pacific island of Malaita, home to a fearsome tribe of headhunters. After the rescue, in a sensational best-selling memoir, Renton recounted his eight-year adventure: how he jumped ship and drifted two thousand miles in an open whaleboat to the Solomon Islands, came ashore ...             Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag32 reviews Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson University of California Press, 1999 An unbelievably bleak tale of survival in the Gulag + You Can Survive Anything if You Keep Believing You Will + Gripping + Stunning + Surviving against all odds             Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea34 reviews Steven Callahan Mariner Books, 2002 I was SHOCKED by how great this book was + Where there's a will, there's a way! + fascinating + A real page turner             Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries ...282 reviews Robert Kurson Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 As Exciting as Any Dive I Have Been On. + Great true Adventure Read + An amazing read + Fantastic Adventure!             The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst17 reviews Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall International Marine Publishing, 1995 A powerful, moving must-read + Extraordinary story with one complaint... + Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea! + Great + The psychology of Round the world races             Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival70 reviews Dean King Back Bay Books, 2005 Terrifying True Story of Survival + amazing tale of survival + A fiction-reader's review Skeletons on the Zahara was one of the most amazing survival stories I have ever read. What an awesome account of living as a slave amongst the Arab nomads in the early 1800's. Camel spiders, sand storms, dehydration, starvation, abuse, incredible heat...how could anyone live through all that? ...             Survive the Savage Sea (Sailing Classics)17 reviews Dougal Robertson Sheridan House, 1994 Gone in sixty seconds + VERY VERY GOOD + Engaging story... + Worth reading             Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone28 reviews Martin Dugard Broadway, 2004 Another Page-Turner by Dugard + A More Realistic View of African Exploration + Compelling History Story + An Unusual Meeting in Central Africa