Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

8 best books like Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier (Mark Adams): Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, The White Darkness, Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road, The Feather Thief

Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border

Author	Porter Fox
ISBN	0393357090

America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America’s primary border for centuries—much of the early history of the United States took place there—and to the tens of millions who live and work...

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Author

Ben Goldfarb

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

Author	David McCullough
ISBN	1501168681

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...

The White Darkness

Author

David Grann

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon , a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer...

Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog

Author	John Muir
ISBN	1883220785

This true tale actually happened in Alaska to the famous naturalist, John Muir, and it became what he called the most memorable of all his wild days. One day, Muir set out to explore a huge glacier during a blizzard. Stickeen--an aloof little dog belonging to a fellow traveler--insisted on going along....

Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

Author	Heather "Anish" Anderson
ISBN	1680512366

By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her...

Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road

Author	Kate Harris
ISBN	0345816781

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE
WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION

"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."

As a teenager,...

The Feather Thief

Author	Kirk Wallace Johnson
ISBN	1101981636

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring...