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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 gold fields

 

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