Last Flight
10 best books like Last Flight (Amelia Earhart): Around the World in 72 Days, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers, Starlight and Storm, Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories, On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet, River House
Around the World in 72 Days
| Author | Nellie Bly |
| ISBN | 1558887636 |
Originally published in 1890 in book form, the text was based on Nellie Bly's newspaper articles for the New York World. In 1889, Bly went around the world as a journalism "stunt" to beat the fictional record of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg -- and even made a stop in France to meet Verne. Since no cover image...
| Author | Alden Jones |
| ISBN | 0299295702 |
Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience...
| Author | Barbara Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1580084419 |
While it's a noticeable improvement over my last attempt at reading a book about female travelers, No Place for a Lady still wasn't what I was hoping for.
My main disappointment was the book's superficial feel. Some of that likely has to do with its location-based organization, which turns...
| Author | Gaston Rébuffat |
| ISBN | 0375755063 |
"One of the great climbers of all time . . . who has discovered through the medium of mountains the true perspective of living." --Sir John Hunt, author of
The Conquest of Everest
Known for his lyrical writing and his ability to convey not only the dangers of mountaineering but the pure exaltation...
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
| Author | Maria Coffey |
| ISBN | 0312339011 |
Without risk, say mountaineers, there would be none of the self-knowledge that comes from pushing life to its extremes. For them, perhaps, it is worth the cost. But when tragedy strikes, what happens to the people left behind? Why would anyone choose to invest in a future with a high-altitude risk-taker?...
| Author | Mireya Mayor |
| ISBN | 1426207212 |
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
| Author | Miranda Weiss |
| ISBN | 0061710253 |
Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundaries—between community and isolation, bounty and deprivation,...
The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories
| Author | Beryl Markham |
| ISBN | 0865473013 |
I loved West With the Night, so I was looking forward to this one. Pah! Let's establish right up front that when I was a kid we had horses. I love their soft velvety lips with the prickly chin whiskers, their smooth coats, the way they twitch their skin to flick off the flies, their welcoming nickers, the way...
On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet
| Author | Luree Miller |
| ISBN | 0898860970 |
It is a pleasure to review a book that tells the story of five women that explore the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet. Three of the women are English travelers, one is an American and one is a French scholar. These women were often dressed in traditional Victorian dress while climbing at 17,000 feet plus....
| Author | Sarahlee Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0982569130 |
An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is the story of a young woman returning home to her family’s ranch and building a log house with the help of her father. An avid river rafter, Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and, by the age of twenty-one, had rafted some of...
| Author | Christiane Bird |
| ISBN | 0671027565 |
Fusing travelogue, historical inquiry, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, Neither East Nor West is a landmark contribution to travel writing and to cultural studies, as well as a timely illumination of a nation deeply misunderstood by most Westerners. In describing life in Iran...
| Author | Ernest Shackleton |
| ISBN | 0451200462 |
What induced me to start reading E. Shackleton’s dramatic diary on his first Antarctic journey as a leader of an expedition was William’s Grill “Shackleton’s Journey” illustrated and narrated by himself. Despite being a children-purposed colorful table book, it appeared a page-turner...
The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
| Author | Rosemary Mahoney |
| ISBN | 0618035494 |
One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of their culture and their attitudes. This remarkable...
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
| Author | Nicholas Tomalin |
| ISBN | 0071414290 |
The Sailor's Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail
In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from England to participate in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months...
Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn
| Author | Ken Cuthbertson |
| ISBN | 0571199658 |
Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 1920s; ran away to the Belgian Congo as a Red Cross worker during the Great Depression; was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s; had an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret...
| Author | Emily Hahn |
| ISBN | 0759240604 |
A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties....
The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story
| Author | Alison Thompson |
| ISBN | 0385529163 |
Alison Thompson, a filmmaker living in New York City, was enjoying Christmas with her boyfriend in 2004 when she saw the news reports online: a 9.3 magnitude earthquake had struck the sea near Indonesia, triggering a massive tsunami that hit much of southern Asia. As she watched the death toll climb,...
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
During her life Margaret Mead represented many things to the American public; sage, scientist, noncomformist, crusader for world peace & archetypal grandmother. An enduring cultural icon, she came to symbolize a new kind of woman, one who successfully combined marriage & motherhood with...
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey
| Author | William Least Heat-Moon |
| ISBN | 0316110256 |
About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking...
| Author | Greg Child |
| ISBN | 0898865883 |
Above an eerie realm of endless snow covered spires . . . Each step appears increasingly impossible. Disorientation and fatigue make the climber's head swim and the body threaten to collapse. For Greg Child it happened at 8,000 meters on an all-out alpine-style climb marked by tragic loss.In this spellbinding...
| Author | Vilhjálmur Stefánsson |
| ISBN | 1432626272 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole
| Author | Bruce Henderson |
| ISBN | 0393327388 |
In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary...
A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
| Author | Jim Whittaker |
| ISBN | 1594856664 |
There have been many "firsts" in Jim Whittaker's life. He was the first North American to summit Mount Everest. As the first manager and employee, and ultimately the CEO, of fledgling Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), he guided the company through years of record-setting growth. He guided Bobby...
Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life
| Author | Caroline Moorehead |
| ISBN | 0805065539 |
The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary time
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international...
