by Bill Bryson (1998)
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America. Bill Bryson, accompanied by his idiosyncratic friend Stephen Katz, sets out to hike this magnificent footpath. Bryson faces raging rivers, bears, and eccentric fellow hikers with razor-sharp humor.
Jon Krakauer
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.
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson retraces the European backpacking trip of his youth, traveling by train from the northern tip of Norway down through Amsterdam, Florence, and Istanbul with trademark sharp wit and historical observation.
David Young
Stranded at the end of the world, at the end of the Heroic Age, three officers and three sailors-the scientific party of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole-burrow into a snow drift and, for seven months, sit out the coldest, most savage winter on record. Based upon the true story of one of the greatest feats of human endurance of this century.
as told to Ben East
A rancher, his family, and two companions journey through 300 miles of rough, unsettled country to the land the family will homestead in Canada only to realize they have been trekking in the wrong direction.