Running the Amazon
10 best books like Running the Amazon (Joe Kane): Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo, Cooper's Creek, My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, Travels in West Africa, Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Travels into the Interior of Africa, No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb, The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics, The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
| Author | Eric Hansen |
| ISBN | 0375724958 |
Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle...
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
| ISBN | 1885283237 |
The first fully documented story of the strange drama - familiar to every Australian child - that took place in the remote interior of Australia 150 years ago. More than any other incident in Australia's history the story of Burke, the dashing but inexperienced expedition leader and Wills, his heroic...
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
| Author | Alexandra David-Néel |
| ISBN | 0060596554 |
An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.
In order to penetrate Tibet and reach...
| Author | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0679727140 |
A mixture of minute, old-fashioned naturalistic observation of plants, mammals, and especially birds in the Amazonian rain forest, and the vicissitudes of traveling with a motley crew of locals along with O'Hanlon's alcoholic English friend Simon, who comes along for a kind of comic counterpoint...
| Author | Mary Henrietta Kingsley |
| ISBN | 0792266382 |
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
| Author | Francis Chichester |
| ISBN | 0340004843 |
When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary,eastward journey around the world in 1966,many believed he wouldn't return alive. But when the old man returned in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV nine months later,he had made history's fastest circumnavigation. Gipsy Moth Circles the...
Travels into the Interior of Africa
| Author | Mungo Park |
| ISBN | 0907871046 |
More than a year of traveling, on foot, sometimes on horseback or mule and enduring tropical rain, heat, hunger and thirst, dysentery and all kinds of fever.
There is a plan to this, to get as far up along the River Niger as at all possible, but with no maps and only relying on what you have heard and...
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
| Author | Felice Benuzzi |
| ISBN | 1558218769 |
Let me begin by stating that I am a climber and have a desire for adventure; sure, those might seem to go hand in hand, but how many climbers are willing to suffer in their thirst for adventure? My suffering has been hardly that, but the limited hardship I've endured has brought an appreciation for those...
The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics
| Author | Richard Halliburton |
| ISBN | 1885211538 |
When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton, he chose adventure over a career, traveling to far away places. This vivid book, one of many he wrote, tells what happened, from a breakthrough Matterhorn ascent to being jailed for taking forbidden pictures on Gibraltar. "One of the most fascinating...
The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
| Author | David Roberts |
| ISBN | 0898862701 |
How rare to find a true climber and explorer who can actually write! The two novel pairing reissued by the Mountaineers in single book, contrasts David Roberts’s writing styles in bold ways. Both were engaging and enthralling. However, one is a rapid recounting of a successful summit with a tragic...
Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure
| Author | James West Davidson |
| ISBN | 1568361688 |
In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard was commissioned by an outdoors magazine to explore Labrador by canoe. Joined by his best friend, Dillon Wallace, and a Scots-Cree guide, George Elson, Hubbard hoped to make a name for himself as an adventurer. But plagued by poor judgment and bad luck, his party turned back...
Over the course of three decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sven Hedin traveled the ancient Silk Road, discovered long-lost cities, mapped previously uncharted rivers, and saw more of the roof of the world than any European before him. Written in the exuberant, enthusiastic style of...
| 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...
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
| Author | Richard Hakluyt |
| ISBN | 0140430733 |
This volume is a selection of about ten percent of the material originally published by Richard Hakluyt, an Anglican priest whose literary career took place during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James the VI & I. It is not clear if this short version was achieved just by selecting the shorter accounts...
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| ISBN | 1426455984 |
After losing his bid for the United States Presidency as a third party candidate, Theodore Roosevelt decided to take on the most dangerous adventure left on earth. He and his son, Kermit, accepted Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon's invitation to help him plot the course of the River of Doubt. The River...
| Author | Gontran De Poncins |
| ISBN | 0881841714 |
Kabloona is a true story of a journey into the North. This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In the summer of 1938, the Frenchman Gontran de Poncins traveled beyond the "Barren Lands" north of the...
| Author | Douglas Mawson |
| ISBN | 1602391440 |
Outside the bowl of chaos was brimming with drift-snow and, as I lay in the sleeping-bag beside my dead companion, I wondered how I would manage to break and pitch camp single-handed." ~ Douglas Mawson
The Home of the Blizzard is a tale of discovery and adventure in the Antarctic - of pioneering...
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
Published for the first time in English, The Mountains of My Life collects the classic writings of world-famous mountaineer Walter Bonatti, and tells the real story of the 1954 controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life.
Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time,...
| Author | Edward Whymper |
| ISBN | 0792269233 |
When he first saw the Alps in 1860, Edward Whymper was a 20-year-old English wood engraver whose dream was to become an arctic explorer. Ambitious and hungry for adventure, he fell in love with the challenge the Alps presented and set out to conquer them peak by peak. Whymper made quick work of the challenge,...
| Author | Thomas F. Hornbein |
| ISBN | 0898866162 |
The first successful summit attempts of Mt. Everest occurred in the mid 20th century. Of course the first, and most historical, was achieved in 1953 by a British expedition when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to stand on the top of the world. Their route was up the southeast ridge,...
| Author | Peter Fleming |
| ISBN | 1843410036 |
In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older brother, set out from Peking for Kashmir. It was a 3500 mile journey across the roof of the world. He chose as his traveling companion Ella Maillart, a beautiful Swiss journalist. Fleming is one to underemphasize...
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0679770798 |
An absolutely outstanding book. This is a collection of pieces the author wrote for Outside and some other magazines during the late 70s and early 80s. The book far exceeds the quality of Pecked to Death by Ducks, which is the only other of his collections I have read.
The first half of the book...
Travels in Arabia Deserta, Volume 1
| Author | Charles M. Doughty |
| ISBN | 0543968332 |
Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers of the Indian colonial government undertook surveys of the areas remote from the major pilgrimage routes. Charles Doughty (1843 1926) spent two years...
Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
| Author | Jonathan Raban |
| ISBN | 0375701001 |
The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi River in a spartan sixteen-foot motorboat, producing yet another masterpiece of contemporary American travel writing. In the course of his voyage, Raban records the mercurial caprices of the river...
