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10 best books like Travels in West Africa (Mary Henrietta Kingsley): A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo, Cooper's Creek, The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels, 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 into the Interior of Africa, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics, The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
AuthorIsabella Lucy Bird
ISBN0806113286
A cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had embarked upon a trip that called for as much stamina as would have been expected of an explorer or anthropologist — and she was neither! Possessing a prodigious amount of curiosity and a huge appetite...
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
AuthorEric Hansen
ISBN0375724958
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...
Cooper's Creek
AuthorAlan Moorehead
ISBN1885283237
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...
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
AuthorFreya Stark
ISBN0375757538
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only...
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
AuthorAlexandra David-Néel
ISBN0060596554
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...
In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0679727140
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...
Travels into the Interior of Africa
AuthorMungo Park
ISBN0907871046
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...
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
AuthorRobert Falcon Scott
ISBN0786703822
In November 1910, a ship called Terra Nova left New Zealand on its way south to Antarctica. On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard....
The Royal Road to Romance: Travelers' Tales Classics
AuthorRichard Halliburton
ISBN1885211538
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
AuthorDavid Roberts
ISBN0898862701
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
AuthorJames West Davidson
ISBN1568361688
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...
My Life as an Explorer
AuthorSven Hedin
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...
Starlight and Storm
AuthorGaston Rébuffat
ISBN0375755063
"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...
I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson
AuthorOsa Johnson
ISBN1568361289
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a 'round-the-world cruise with Jack London....
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
AuthorTheodore Roosevelt
ISBN1426455984
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...
Kabloona
AuthorGontran De Poncins
ISBN0881841714
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...
The Home Of The Blizzard: A True Story Of Antarctic Survival
AuthorDouglas Mawson
ISBN1602391440
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...
Scrambles Amongst the Alps
AuthorEdward Whymper
ISBN0792269233
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,...
Everest: The West Ridge
AuthorThomas F. Hornbein
ISBN0898866162
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,...
News From Tartary
AuthorPeter Fleming
ISBN1843410036
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...
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
AuthorDan Morrison
ISBN0670021989
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea

With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda,...
First Footsteps in East Africa
AuthorRichard Francis Burton
ISBN1428017305
Chock full of ethnographical information about the Muslims of Somalia, Richard Burton's "First Footsteps in Africa" is a great look at a white man's first forays into that area of the continent. As an adventure novel, the book is kind of dry -- Burton essentially travels to an area, is held there by its...
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
AuthorAmelia B. Edwards
ISBN1850772274
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn't leave home. One of the pioneering Egyptologists of the age,...
Travels in Arabia Deserta, Volume 1
AuthorCharles M. Doughty
ISBN0543968332
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...
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