Adventure

  • A Light In The Forest
  • A Walk In The Woods
  • Adrift : seventy-six days lost at sea.  Callahan, Steven. Steven Callahan set sail in his small sloop from the Canary Islands bound for the Caribbean, but ends up drifting for seventy-six days over eighteen hundred miles of ocean before he reached land and rescue.
  • Alive  Piers Paul Read.  A soccer team crashes in the Andes and must overcome humanity's greatest taboo - cannibalism - in order to survive.
  • Artemis Fowl
  • Banner In The Sky
  • Beardance
  • Beyond The Western Sea: Book One: The Escape From Home
  • Big Wander
  • Cousins In The Castle
  • David Balfour: Being Memoirs Of The Further Adventures Of David Balfour
  • Deathwatch
  • Down River
  • Far North
  • Flight of Passage   Rinker Buck.  In this true coming-of-age adventure, two teenage brothers pilot a Piper Cub from New York to San Diego.
  • Ghost Canoe
  • Guts  Gary Paulsen.  Paulsen offers this collection of wilderness survival/hunting essays that concentrates on drawing parallels between his own life and the fictional adventures and misadventures of Brian Robeson in Hatchet and its sequels.
  • Holes
  • Home And Abroad
  • Into The Wild   Jon Krakauer.  The dramatic story of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarked on a solo journey into the wilds of Alaska and whose body was discovered four months later, explores the fascinating allure that the wilderness has for the American imagination.
  • Into Thin Air  Krakauer, Jon. The author of Into the Wild describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, an expedition that ended in disaster, claiming the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived, in a definitive, firsthand account of the tragedy.
  • Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history    Larson, Erik.  On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. By the time the water and winds subsided, entire streets had disappeared and as many as 10,000 were dead--making this the worst natural disaster in America's history.
  • Kokopeli's Flute
  • Maiden Voyage  Tania Aebi.  Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years she negotiated weather, illness, fear, and ultimately, a spiritual quest.
  • Mariel Of Redwall
  • Perilous Journey of the Donner Party  Calabro, Marian.  Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.
  • Red Midnight
  • Slake's Lembo
  • Smugglers - Lawrence
  • Sparrow Hawk Red
  • The Call Of The Wild
  • The Cay
  • The Count Of Monte Cristo
  • The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition.  Caroline Alexander. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, this riveting account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica presents, for the first time, 150 images by Australian photographer Frank Hurley.
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
  • The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey    Linda Greenlaw.  Linda Greenlaw is perhaps the only female ever to captain a swordfishing boat, working the waters east of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Although Linda has been fishing commercially for over 18 years, she has only recently gained notoriety for her part in The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, in which Junger describes her as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast."
  • The Iceman
  • The King's Fifth
  • The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea  Sebastian Junger.  Junger describes the turn of events that led to a fisherman's boat destruction in "The Storm of the Century," including 100 foot waves and the physiology of drowning.
  • The rescue season : the heroic story of parajumpers on the edge of the world  Bob Drury.  The story of the rescue of some stranded parajumpers, frozen and in shock on a mountain peak in Alaska, by the 210th Pararescue Squadron, a special section of the U.S. Air Force.
  • The terrible hours: the man behind the greatest submarine rescue in history.  Peter Maas.  Maas reconstructs the harrowing 39 hours between the disappearance of the submarine Squalus during a test dive off the New England coast and the eventual rescue of 33 crew members trapped in the vessel 250 feet beneath the sea.
  • The Transall Saga
  • The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook  Joshua Piven.
  • Touching Spirit Bear
  • Wreckers - Lawrence
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