The Essential Man's Library: 50 Non-Fiction Adventure Books

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A list of 50 essential books of non-fiction adventure stories compiled by the website artofmanliness.com in 2009.
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Undaunted Courage (1996) door Stephen E. Ambrose
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (1965) door Anonymous
The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas (2003) door Todd Balf
Over de rand van de wereld (2003) door Laurence Bergreen
This Accursed Land (1977) door Lennard Bickel
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) door David Breashears
On Horseback through Asia Minor (1985) door Frederick Burnaby
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986) door Steven Callahan
Death in the Long Grass (1977) door Peter H. Capstick
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (1994) door Andrew Chaikin
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) door Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) (1986) door Christopher Columbus
Menseneters van Kumaon (1944) door Jim Corbett
De grootste ontdekkingsreiziger aller tijden. Triomf en tragedie van Captain James Cook (2001) door Martin Dugard
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (2003) door Martin Dugard
Brazilian Adventure (1933) door Peter Fleming
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival (2009) door Yossi Ghinsberg
De verloren stad Z. het verhaal van een man en zijn dodelijke obsessie in het Amazonegebied (2009) door David Grann
The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest (2000) door Bear Grylls
My Life as an Explorer (1925) door Sven Hedin
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole (2005) door Bruce Henderson
De Annapurna expeditie (1951) door Maurice Herzog
De Kon-tiki Expeditie : 8000 kilometer per vlot over de Grote Ocean (1948) door Thor Heyerdahl
High Adventure (1955) door Edmund Hillary
De weg naar Lhasa (1983) door Peter Hopkirk
K2, the Savage Mountain (1954) door Charles S. Houston
De volmaakte storm (1997) door Sebastian Junger
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (2004) door Dean King
De ijle lucht in het verslag van een huiveringwekkende Mount Everest-expeditie (1996) door Jon Krakauer
De wildernis in (1996) door Jon Krakauer
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold (2006) door Frank T. Kryza
Endurance de ongelooflijke reis van Shackleton (1959) door Alfred Lansing
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542) door ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
In het voetspoor van mijn vader (2001) door Jamling Tenzing Norgay
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) door J. H. Patterson
Het hart van de zee - Het verhaal begint waar Melvilles Moby Dick eindigt (2000) door Nathaniel Philbrick
De wonderen van de Orient (1298) door Marco Polo
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) door John Wesley Powell
Klem zes dagen die mijn leven veranderden (2004) door Aron Ralston
Overleven het verhaal van de vliegramp in de Andes (1974) door Piers Paul Read
Of Whales and Men (1954) door R.B. Robertson
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) door Theodore Roosevelt
Het rijk der mensen (1939) door Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Zuidpool : Shackletons laatste expeditie 1914-1917 (1919) door Ernest Shackleton
Over de rand (1988) door Joe Simpson
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001) door Doug Stanton
De Moeras-Arabieren (1964) door Wilfred Thesiger
Woestijnen van Arabië (1959) door Wilfred Thesiger
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1905) door Reuben Gold Thwaites
The Innocents Abroad (1869) door Mark Twain

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