by Michael Finkel (2017)
In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight walked into the woods of Maine and did not speak to another human being for twenty-seven years. He lived in a hidden tent encampment through brutal winters, surviving exclusively by burglarizing nearby summer cabins for food and batteries.
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.
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.
Daniel Cohen
A biography of the poor boy turned journalist turned explorer, who discovered the Nile's source and dreamed of bringing civilization to the heart of Africa.