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My Favorite
Adventure Books Artic and Antarctic Adventures Endurance - Shackelton's Incredible Voyage,
Alfred Lansing Fatal North, Bruce Henderson. U.S.S. Polaris and first U.S. expedition to
the North Pole Solo to the Top of the World, Gustavus A. McLeod. Open cockpit biplane to the North Pole In the Land of White Death, Valerian Albanov. Russian artic expedition trapped two years Espionage and
Intelligence MacArthur's
Undercover War,
William Brewer. WWII agents and guerrillas
in the Philippines The Secret in
Building 26,
Jim Debrosse. America's attempts to
crack the enigma code A Man Called
Intrepid,
William Stevenson. Intelligence
operations during WWII. Mountain Adventure Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer. Mt. Everest disaster Sea and Storm In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick,
Sailors survive 90 days in the Pacific The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger. Sea losses and rescues Farther than Any Man - The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook,
Martin Duggard Heart of the Storm, Col. Edward Fleming. Helicopter rescues at sea Seaworthy - Adrift with William Willis, T.
R. Pearson. Man crosses Pacific solo
on a raft Isaac's Storm, Erick Larson. The 1900 Galveston hurricane Out of the Depths, David Harrett. The survivors of the USS Indianapolis The Raging Sea, Dennis M. Powers, The worst Tsunami to
hit the U.S. (1964) Island of the Lost, Joan Druett. Men shipwrecked 2 years on Auckland Island Last Voyage of Columbus, Martin Dugard The Ship and the Storm, Jim Carrier. Hurricane Mitch and the loss of the Fantone Submarine and Under the Sea The Terrible Hours, Peter Maas. The Man behind the greatest submarine rescue Blind Mans' Bluff, Sherry Sontag. American submarine espionage during the
Cold War Hostile Waters, Peter Huchthausen. Rescue of Russian nuclear sub sunk off U.S.
coast Under Pressure - The Final Voyage of Submarine
S-5, A. J. Hill The Silent War, John Pina Craven. A scientist's report of undersea war
projects War Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose. Follow one company to Hitler's Eagle's Nest At Dawn We Slept -
The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Gordon W. Prange Fighter, Len Deighton. The air war over Briton in the summer of
1940 Blackhawk Down, Mark Bowden. Army rangers trapped in Somalia Pegasus Bridge, Stephen Ambrose. British capture a key bridge in France to
start D-Day. Flags of Our
Fathers, James
Bradley. Story of the men who raised the Iwo Jima flag In Harm's Way, Doug Stanton. The sinking of the USS Indianapolis Ghost Soldiers, Hampton Sides. Dramatic rescue
of prisoners of war from on Luzon The Wild Blue, Stephen Ambrose. The men and boys who flew the B-24s over
Germany The Victors - Eisenhower and His Boys, Stephen Ambrose The Burma Road, Donovan Wesbster. Building the road from India to China in
WWII Shiloh, Shelby Foote. Civil War battle Other Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded, Simon
Winchester. The 1883 Tsunami Raid on the Sun, Rodger W. Claire. Israeli pilots take out Iraq's nuclear
reactor River of No Reprieve, Jeffrey Taylor. Trip by boat up Siberia's waterway to the
Artic Circle Fire, Sebastian Junger. Stories of fire fighting around the world Horatio's Drive, Dayton Duncan. San Francisco to New York by car in 1903 Dangerous Beauty, Mark C. Ross. African safari stories including kidnapping
and death Miracle in the Andes, Nando Parrado. Plane crash leaves passengers stranded Journey, James Michener. Englishmen trek across Canada to the Yukon
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