Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

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Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

"A list we had hoped our readers would enjoy turned out to be one of the most popular features in Adventure's five-year history. You mostrar mais asked for it—repeatedly—now you got it: the 100 Greatest in all their glory."

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ObraCategoriaEtiqueta de Ordem
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) por Apsley Cherry-Garrard
001
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1905) por Reuben Gold Thwaites
002
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939) por Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
003
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) por John Wesley Powell
004
Arabian Sands (1959) por Wilfred Thesiger
005
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968) por Edward Abbey
007
West with the Night (1942) por Beryl Markham
008
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (1996) por Jon Krakauer
009
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) por Marco Polo
010
Farthest North (1897) por Fridtjof Nansen
011
The Snow Leopard (1978) por Peter Matthiessen
012
Roughing It (1872) por Mark Twain
013
Two Years Before the Mast (1840) por Richard Henry Jr. Dana
014
South: The Endurance Expedition (1919) por Ernest Shackleton
015
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) por Eric Newby
016
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft (1948) por Thor Heyerdahl
017
Travels in West Africa (1897) por Mary Kingsley
018
The Spirit of St. Louis (1953) por Charles A. Lindbergh
019
Seven Years in Tibet (1952) por Heinrich Harrer
020
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific (1949) por James Cook
021
The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival (1930) por Douglas Mawson
022
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) por Charles Darwin
023
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) por T. E. Lawrence
024
Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799) por Mungo Park
025
The Right Stuff (1979) por Tom Wolfe
026
Sailing Alone around the World (1900) por Joshua Slocum
027
The Mountain of My Fear (1968) por David Roberts
028
First Footsteps in East Africa or An Exploration of Harar (1856) por Richard F. Burton
029
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea (1997) por Sebastian Junger
030
The Oregon Trail (1849) por Francis Parkman
031
Through the Dark Continent or The Sources of the Nile Around the Great lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean (1878) por Henry M. Stanley
032
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) por Isabella L. Bird
033
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (1917) por Valerian Albanov
034
Endurance (1999) por Frank Worsley
035
Scrambles Amongst the Alps (1893) por Edward Whymper
036
Out of Africa (1937) por Isak Dinesen
037
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (1913) por Robert Falcon Scott
038
Everest: The West Ridge (1965) por Thomas F. Hornbein
039
Journey Without Maps (1936) por Graham Greene
040
Starlight and Storm (1956) por Gaston Rébuffat
041
My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) por John Muir
042
My Life as an Explorer (1925) por Sven Hedin
043
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon (1988) por Redmond O'Hanlon
044
The Man Who Walked through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot through the Grand Canyon (1968) por Colin Fletcher
045
K2, the Savage Mountain (1954) por Charles S. Houston
046
Gypsy Moth Circles the World (1967) por Francis Chichester
047
Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944) por Jim Corbett
048
Alone (1938) por Richard E. Byrd
049
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo (1988) por Eric Hansen
050
Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) por Charles M. Doughty
051
The Royal Road to Romance (1925) por Richard Halliburton
052
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (1956) por Sławomir Rawicz
053
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872) por Clarence King
054
My Journey to Lhasa (1927) por Alexandra David-Néel
055
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863) por John Hanning Speke
056
Running the Amazon (1989) por Joe Kane
057
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974) por Piers Paul Read
058
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation (1972) por Richard Hakluyt
059
Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan (1841) por John Lloyd Stephens
060
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (1984) por Owen Chase
061
Life in the Far West (1601) por George F. Ruxton
062
My Life as an Explorer (1927) por Roald Amundsen
063
News from Tartary (1936) por Peter Fleming
064
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (1980) por Arlene Blum
065
The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty (1792) por William Bligh
066
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986) por Steven Callahan
067
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542) por ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
068
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (1988) por Joe Simpson
069
Tracks (1980) por Robyn Davidson
070
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837) por Washington Irving
071
Cooper's Creek (1963) por Alan Moorehead
072
The Fearful Void (1974) por Geoffrey Moorhouse
073
No Picnic on Mount Kenya (1946) por Felice Benuzzi
074
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) por Theodore Roosevelt
075
The Road to Oxiana (1937) por Robert Byron
076
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (1969) por Art Davidson
077
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (1355) por Ibn Battuta
78
Jaguars Ripped My Flesh (1987) por Tim Cahill
079
Journal of a Trapper (1955) por Osborne Russell
080
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle (1965) por Dervla Murphy
081
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1996) por Sara Wheeler
082
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1955) por David Howarth
083
Kabloona (1941) por Gontran de Poncins
084
Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna (1961) por Lionel Terray
085
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (1974) por Michael Collins
086
Adventures in the Wilderness (Adirondack Museum) (1970) por William H. H. Murray
087
The mountains of my life (1995) por Walter Bonatti
088
Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (1988) por James West Davidson
089
Journal of the Voyage to the Pacific (1931) por Alexander Mackenzie
090
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (1934) por Freya Stark
091
Silent World (National Geographic Adventure Classics) (1953) por Jacques-Yves Cousteau
092
Alaska Wilderness: Exploring the Central Brooks Range (1970) por Robert Marshall
093
North American Indians (1995) por George Catlin
094
I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson (1940) por Osa Johnson
095
The descent of Pierre Saint-Martin (1954) por Norbert Casteret
096
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (1989) por Reinhold Messner
097
Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chile, etc., With a Scientific Appendix. (1839) por John Kirk Townsend
098
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness (1990) por Doug Peacock
099
One Man's Mountains (1971) por Tom Patey
100
The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas (2003) por Todd Balf
new short list
Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow: The Personal Costs of Climbing (2003) por Maria Coffey
new short list
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay (2003) por John Gimlette
new short list
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (2003) por Nathaniel Philbrick
new short list
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight (2003) por James Tobin
new short list

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