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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAn Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
Michael Smith · 377 pages
Shackleton
Roland Huntford · 774 pages
He is a biographer's dream: Ernest Shackleton was ruthless and ambitious, an unabashed adventurer, an inspired leader, a glorious failure. Also, for much of his life, he was beset by financial and romantic entanglements. Huntford, author of Scott and Amundsen (basis of the recent PBS series The Last Place on Earth), has written a superb account of heroic adventure, of ineptitude and disappointment
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
Ken McGoogan · 336 pages
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Daniel James Brown · 337 pages
In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so days before the planned departure she married the young man with the violin, and the two of them threw th
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden · 286 pages
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their society luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teaching jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied -- shocking the
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Wade Davis · 672 pages
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war.
Snowflake Bentley
Jacqueline Briggs Martin · 32 pages
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier & the Yukon Gold Rush
Howard Blum · 420 pages
Using primary source materials from three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, best-selling author Blum tells a story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness
James Campbell · 311 pages
A portrait of the late Alaskan bush frontiersman, told by his cousin, traces his family's adventures on the land's frozen and remote outreaches, describing his unhappy childhood, decision to move his wife and two daughters to the bush, steadfast cultivation of survival skills, and untimely death.
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer · 207 pages
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose
Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment
Vicki Mackenzie · 256 pages
Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Robert Specht · 342 pages
> **Alaska was as remote as the moon, as roistering and lawless as the Gold Rush. And a pretty young schoolteacher from Colorado like Anne Hobbs was even rarer than nuggets.** "So appealing are the people here, even the villainous ones; so dramatic is the landscape in which they act out their adventure; so pure is the moral conflict that forms the story's backbone, and so honest is its sentim
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson · 218 pages
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
Craig Nelson · 424 pages
A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathersDespite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine'
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Wil Haygood · 410 pages
"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century,"--Novelist.
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
Curt Gentry · 847 pages
A study of J. Edgar Hoover and how he influenced American politics, presidents, civil rights movements, etc. during his fifty years as director of FBI.
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
Kate Williams · 480 pages
"Born into poverty in 1765, Emma clawed her way up through London's sordid underworld to become the mistress of Lord Nelson, the greatest military hero of the era. Dazzlingly beautiful, she mixed in diplomatic circles and became the confidante of both Marie Antoinette and the Queen of Naples. Nothing it seemed could stand in the way of her dreams - except her self-destructive desires ..."--Publish
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson · 40 pages
This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
Janet B. Pascal · 104 pages
Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot one night at Ford's Theater—the first President to be assassinated. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps are included.
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Randall E. Stross · 384 pages