In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from England for Antarctica, where Shackleton hoped to be the first man to cross the uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, the Endurance - just a day's sail short of its destination - became locked in an island of ice, and its destiny and men became locked in history. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted until it was finally crushed, and Shackleton and his crew made an 850-mile journey in a 20-foot craft through the South Atlantic's worst seas to reach an outpost of civilization. Inspired by the ordeal that Time magazine said "defined heroism," author Alfred Lansing conducted interviews with the crew's surviving members and pored over diaries and personal accounts to create his best-selling book on the miraculous voyage. In Audio Partners' abridged recording of Endurance, reader Patrick Malahide renders a masterful portrayal of these courageous men.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

History

Lansing, Alfred

World

Adventure Library

The dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition to K2, the second-highestbut generally considered the most difficult and dangerousmountain in the world. The Houston-led team failed in their attempt and tragedy struck them, but their courage and concern for each other has made their story one of the pinnacles of American Himalayan mountaineering. 
First published in 1954 Introduction by James Wickwire New afterword by the authors New maps, color and b&amp;w photos

K2: The Savage Mountain (The Adventure Library)

Travel

Bates, Robert

Asia

In 1986 a party of 12 explorers attempted to travel the full length of the Amazon. Joe Kane's original role was as a writer and observer but he ended up as one of the only two members of the original group to complete the entire journey, the only expedition ever to travel the entire 4200 mile Amazon river from its source high in the Andes to its union with the Atlantic Ocean. The expedition took them, by foot, raft and kayak, through one of the world's deepest canyons, through deadly whitewater rapids and into one of the last sections of virgin rain forest in the Western hemisphere, home to outlaw guerillas, primitive Indian nomads and cocaine traffickers. The resulting chronicle is an adventure story of a journey fraught with dangers but ultimately achieving its goal.

Running the Amazon (Adventure Library)

KANE, JOE

Specialty Travel

A thrilling narrative history of the exploration of Africa in the last half of the 19th century featuring larger-than-life personalitiesStanley, Livingstone, Burton, among many othersand intense drama. An immediate bestseller when first published, this may be the most absorbing and enjoyable of all the books about African exploration. 
Original publication date 1960 New introduction by Jeremy Bernstein New maps, drawings and photos, index

The White Nile (Adventure Library)

Moorehead, Alan.

Africa

One of the most enduring classics of the sea. A hundred years ago, Slocum set sail from Boston Harbor in a small boat, the

Sailing Alone Around the World (Adventure Library)

SLOCUM, JOSHUA

Travel Writing

Annapurna was the first 8000-meter mountain to be climbed. But Maurice Herzog's team paid a terrible price for their great feat. The story of their descent from the summit is one of the great narratives in all mountaineering literature. This is the most widely-read and influential mountaineering book ever published. 
First published in 1952 New introduction by Charles Houston Afterword by Maurice Herzog

Annapurna (Adventure Library)

HERZOG, Maurice

Reference

One of the greatest of all stories of courage and survival during World War II. A Norwegian commando is sent to German-occupied Norway, and nearly captured. This is the story of his extraordinary escape to Sweden across the snowy mountains, and of the courageous Norwegians who risked their lives to save him. 
First published in 1955 New introduction by Thomas Fleming New afterword by Stephen Howarth New maps, photographs

We Die Alone (The Adventure Library)

David Howarth

Military

Acknowledged throughout the world as one of the most moving and inspiring stories of survival ever written. In 1973, sixteen Uruguayan boys, most of them teenagers, were rescued after surviving for ten weeks in the snowy wastes of the high Andes after their plane crashed. This is the story of their survival, told with compassion, understanding, and restraint. 
First published in 1974 New afterword by the author New material by and about the survivors Maps, photographs

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Adventure Library)

Read, Piers Paul

No European woman had ventured where Kingsley would venture, and no man either. In defiance of Victorian notions about women's roles, she journeyed through West Africa, climbed mountains, experienced harrowing adventures, dwelled among cannibals, and lived to write one of the most admired books of high adventure of all time. First published in 1897 Appreciation of Mary Kingsley by Evan Connell New maps 280pp

Travels in West Africa (Adventure Library)

KINGSLEY, mary

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft

Six men on a small raft sail four thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands.

HEYERDAHL, THOR

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