The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic

6 best books like The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic (Edward Beauclerk Maurice): Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War, Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship, Leonardo and Gabriel

Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

Author	Kenn Kaufman
ISBN	0618709401

At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

Author	Dean King
ISBN	0316159352

A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples.

In a calm May morning in...

Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy

Author	Fergus Fleming
ISBN	0871138042

Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Re-creating the successes and harrowing failures of the original extreme adventurers, Fergus Fleming captures the incredibly brave, and often downright insane, passion for...

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War

Author	DeAnne Blanton
ISBN	1400033152

“Albert Cashier” served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her at the Battle of Murfreesboro. And more than...

Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship

Author	Martin W. Sandler
ISBN	1402740859

A riveting true adventure story….
An award-winning, bestselling author…
A page-turner that’s impossible to put down.
 
Almost everyone knows the photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as a young boy, peering out from under his father’s desk in the Oval Office. But few realize that...

Leonardo and Gabriel

Author

Tim Tigner

LEONARDO DA VINCI HAS A PROBLEM.
A serious problem.
The soul-wrenching kind.
The career killing kind.
He needs to finish a piece for the Pope—but doesn’t know how.

Alas, figuring it out is no trivial task. In fact, nobody ever has.

Of all the great and grand quests...