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The follow: a true story

By Linda Spalding. 1998

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Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography

The author recounts her expedition into the forests of Borneo in search of a reclusive primatologist, who has devoted her… life to protecting orphaned orangutans. Describes the beauty of the island, the local society, and the despoilment of natural resources through poaching, deforestation, and misguided ecotourism. 1998.

The elusive Mr. Pond: the soldier, fur trader and explorer who opened the Northwest

By Barry M Gough. 2014

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)

Born in Connecticut in 1739, Peter Pond volunteered for the colonial Connecticut and New York regiments that fought against the… French for control of North America. Soon after, drawn by the promise of wealth and adventure, Pond paddled into the wild territory of the Indians to the west with only a canoe, some trade goods and a few French Canadians to aid him. What he returned with is the stuff of legend. 2014.

The Everest years: a climber's life

By Chris Bonington. 1987

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Adventure and exploration, Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Sports and games

At the age of 50, the author, one of the world's best-known mountaineers, reached the summit of Mount Everest in… 1985 after four attempts. He chronicles his Everest expeditions and the ascent of Mount Vinson in the Antarctic with Frank Wells. 1987.

The hall of the mountain king

By Howard H Snyder. 1973

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Adventurers and explorers, Sports biography, Sports and games

A chilling record by a participant in the 1967 Wilcox Mount McKinley expedition, from which only five of the 12 climbers returned. 1973.

The dig tree: the extraordinary story of the ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 expedition

By Sarah Murgatroyd. 2003

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Adventure and exploration, Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography

In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke set out to Melbourne at the head of the… most ambitious expedition of his age. Up until this point Australia had remained a truly dark continent, but times were changing. On 20 August Burke and his team of eighteen men made a confident start - journeying north towards the Gulf of Carpentaria. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to cross the continent. Meanwhile, John McDouall Stuart, a dour Scotsman with a fondness for the bottle, was already trekking north from Adelaide. The race was on. 2003.

The corpse had a familiar face: covering Miami, America's hottest beat

By Edna Buchanan. 1988

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Literature biography, Adventurers and explorers, True crime

This anecdotal autobiography by the Pulitzer Prize-winning police reporter focuses on her 15 years of covering stories of murder and drug trafficking. Some descriptions of sex. 1988.

The Chicago Cubs: story of a curse

By Rich Cohen. 2017

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Sports and games, Baseball

Follows the Cubs' early days as the first powerhouse baseball team, winners of the 1907 and 1908 World Series; their… storied players, such as Billy Sunday, the 2nd baseman who became the most popular preacher in America; their old stadiums; their owners, from chewing gum magnate William Wrigley to Thomas Ricketts, CEO of Ameritrade; and their time between the two World Wars; all of it leading up to the momentous last World Series appearance and the breaking of the famed curse. 2017.

The bullpen gospels: major league dreams of a minor league veteran

By Dirk Hayhurst. 2010

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Biography, Sports biography, Baseball

Pitcher Dirk Hayhurst is not a superstar, never even a 'Top Prospect', and in the game of baseball, if you… don't fit in either of those categories, it can almost be as if you don't exist. Hayhurst tackles this issue - the issue of labels and identity and the problems that come along with them - but also writes about seeing ballplayers as more than just numbers on the backs of jerseys, and about life, with baseball as the backdrop. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language. Bestseller. 2010.

The breach: Kilimanjaro and the conquest of self

By Rob Taylor. 1981

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Adventure and exploration, Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Christianity, Sports and games, Travel and geography

Tale of mountain adventure and spiritual challenge in which the author and a celebrated mountaineer attempt to climb the southwest side of Kilimanjaro, the breach wall. Some strong language. 1981.

The Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher: an Elizabethan venture (McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; #28)

By Robert McGhee. 2001

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Adventurers and explorers, Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Canadian history, European history

Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Privateer Martin Frobisher took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. On… July 14, 1576, he sighted the most easterly tip of Arctic North America. Over the next three summers the area would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New world, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. 2001.

Ten great adventurers: biographies of ten amazing explorers

By Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Amy Puetz. 2017

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers

Circumnavigate the globe with Sir Francis Drake, spread the gospel in Africa with David Livingstone, survive the wilds of Jamestown… with Captain John Smith, penetrate the wilderness with Daniel Boone, capture Mexico with Hernán Cortes, fight the British with John Paul Jones, and search for gold with Hernando De Soto. Grades 5-8. 2017.

Tandems africains: du Sahara au Kilimandjaro guidés par des non-voyants

By Diego Audemard. 2007

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Travel and geography, Travelogues

C'est en tandems que Jean-Christophe Perrot et Diego Audemard ont choisi de réaliser leur projet "Raconte-moi la Terre" découvrir l'Afrique,… pendant toute une année, guidés par des personnes non et mal- voyantes. Avec leurs 27 copilotes, ils ont pédalé sur 13 500 kilomètres à travers douze pays, gravi à pied quatre sommets de plus de 4 000 mètres d'altitude, et réalisé qu'au-delà du défi physique, ils vivaient un véritable partage des sens. Le témoignage d'une expérience authentique, menée pour le plaisir de voir avec d'autres yeux. Une aventure où il faut être deux pour avancer, un aveugle et un voyant, un autochtone et un étranger. 2007.

Sept ans d'aventures au Tibet

By Heinrich Harrer. 1983

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Asian travel and geography

L'auteur raconte comment il s'est évadé de prison, pendant la guerre de 1939-1945, pour gagner le Tibet où il a… séjourné cinq années au cours desquelles il a conseillé le jeune dalaï-lama, et s'est trouvé témoin impuissant de l'invasion chinoise. Paru en 1952, le récit a été traduit en cinquante langues. 1983.

Take me out to the ball game: a history of baseball in America (The modern scholar)

By Timothy Baker Shutt. 2007

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Sports and games, Baseball

In this course, Kenyon College professor, Timothy Shutt provides a history of baseball in America, from its origins through today's modern game. 2007.

Tarrant on top of the world: in search of the polar bear

By Chris Tarrant. 2005

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography

A passionate angler, Chris Tarrant's interest in bears was first triggered by sightings of grizzlies whilst fishing in the wilds… of Canada. For years he harboured a plan to mount an expedition in search of their most ferocious cousins, polar bears. They are to be found in greatest numbers in the extreme north of Norway, about 400 miles south of the pole, near Svalbard. This is a record of that trip, and a homage to the power and beauty of one of the most ferocious predators left on earth. 2005.

Switchbacks: true stories from the Canadian Rockies

By Sid Marty. 1999

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Biography, Literature biography, Adventurers and explorers, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian travel and geography

Sid Marty presents a collection of true Rock Mountain tales drawn on his own memories and those of friends and… former colleagues. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer who was rescued between rounds of beer in a Banff tavern; the man who catered to hungry grizzlies; an opinionated packrat with a gift for larceny; and a horse named Candy whose heart was as big as a stove. 1999.

Shackleton's boat journey: the narrative from the Captain of the Endurance

By Frank Arthur Worsley. 2001

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Adventure and exploration, Adventurers and explorers

Worsley was the captain of the Endurance, the boat Ernest Shackleton and his men were on while attempting an Antarctic… expedition in 1914. When the Endurance became trapped in ice, which eventually crushed the ship, the expedition became one of survival as the crew camped on a giant drifting ice floe. Eventually, Shackleton took five men, Worsley included, on an 800-mile journey on the open seas to get help on inhabited South Georgia Island. 2001.

Solitude: seeking wisdom in extremes : a year alone in the Patagonia wilderness

By Robert Kull. 2008

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Adventure and exploration, Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Christianity, Travel and geography

For his Ph.D. dissertation, Kull built a cabin in the Patagonian wilderness with the intention of studying the effect of… deep wilderness solitude on a human being. He describes a tradition of solitaries and hermits and surveys the various cultural understandings of solitude, as well as providing his physical explorations and observations of the surrounding area. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2008.

Snowshoes & spotted dick: letters from a wilderness dweller

By Chris Czajkowski. 2003

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Nature

The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness. The author describes her experiences as… she builds a cabin in the wilderness and relates the complications of the "simple life" - how she breaks trails by snowshoe, encounters grizzly bears, builds a stone oven and learns to bake bread - and spotted dick. 2003.

Straight on till morning: the biography of Beryl Markham

By Mary S Lovell. 1987

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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Women biography

Biography of Beryl Markham who made the first solo flight west across the Atlantic Ocean. She was raised in Kenya… alongside the son of Nandi hunters. Strikingly beautiful and uninterested in motherhood, she could take apart an airplane or fly across the Sahara with a stuttering engine. 1987.

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