Category: Adventure: Non Fiction

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Caves of Adventure, translated from the French by Alan Hodge

By: Haroun Tazieff

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Viking: 1960

Seller ID: 27919

ISBN: 0670015075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

former owner's name 1st page, light tanning, lightly rubbed else clean & tight - Buy with confidence from 'Your neighborhood book store,... online (tm)
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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

By: Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Hyperion: 2001

Seller ID: 6865

ISBN: 0786866845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

By: Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Hyperion: 2001

Seller ID: 77365

ISBN: 0786866845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as they are known, live in almost total darkness for six months of the year, in winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero--with no way in or out before the spring.

During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, solely responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a team of researchers, construction workers, and support staff, discovered a lump in her bre...
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Lost at Sea

By: Patrick Dillon

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Touchstone: August 2000

Seller ID: 82737

ISBN: 0684869098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing in the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later, on Valentine's Day, the overturned hull of the Americus was found drifting in calm seas, with no record of even a single distress call or trace of its seven-man crew. The Altair vanished altogether. Despite the desperate search that followed, no evidence of the vessel or its crew would ever be found. Fourteen men were...
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

By: Gary Kinder

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr: June 1998

Seller ID: 74837

ISBN: 0871134640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A chronicle of recent successful attempts to salvage a ship that sank in 1857 carrying gold from the rich California mines follows a group of adventurers who took great risks to reap billions in sunken treasure.
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 1999

Seller ID: 67450

ISBN: 0060977477

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in paperback with never-before-seen photos--just in time for Father's Day Superb. . . . Told with authority, brio and deep sympathy for those in peril on the sea.--Washington Post Book World. 8-page photo insert.
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $3.95

Publisher: W.W. Norton: 1997

Seller ID: 15443

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. . . . I]f the boat's not going to Buschor, Buschor's going to have to go to it. SWIM they scream over the rail. SWIM Buschor rips off his gloves and hood and starts swimming for his life."

It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfec...
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