The Essential Man's Library: 50 Non-Fiction Adventure Books

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A list of 50 essential books of non-fiction adventure stories compiled by the website artofmanliness.com in 2009.
Opera
Undaunted Courage (1996) di Stephen E. Ambrose
La saga di Eirik il Rosso e La saga dei Groenlandesi (1965) di Anonymous
The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas (2003) di Todd Balf
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (2003) di Laurence Bergreen
This Accursed Land (1977) di Lennard Bickel
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (1999) di David Breashears
On Horseback through Asia Minor (1985) di Frederick Burnaby
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986) di Steven Callahan
Death in the Long Grass (1977) di Peter H. Capstick
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (1994) di Andrew Chaikin
Il peggior viaggio del mondo: la spedizione antartica di Scott nella straordinaria testimonianza di un sopravvissuto (1922) di Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) (1986) di Christopher Columbus
Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944) di Jim Corbett
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (2003) di Martin Dugard
L' eroe dell'Endeavour (2001) di Martin Dugard
Avventura brasiliana (1933) di Peter Fleming
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival (2009) di Yossi Ghinsberg
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2009) di David Grann
The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest (2000) di Bear Grylls
My Life as an Explorer (1925) di Sven Hedin
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole (2005) di Bruce Henderson
Annapurna (1951) di Maurice Herzog
Kon-Tiki l'uomo, l'oceano, l'avventura, il mito una delle più grandi avventure di questo secolo (1948) di Thor Heyerdahl
High Adventure (1955) di Edmund Hillary
Alla conquista di Lhasa (1983) di Peter Hopkirk
K2, the Savage Mountain (1954) di Charles S. Houston
Tempesta perfetta: una storia vera i uomini contro il mare (1997) di Sebastian Junger
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (2004) di Dean King
Aria sottile (1996) di Jon Krakauer
Into the wild (1996) di Jon Krakauer
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold (2006) di Frank T. Kryza
Endurance: l'incredibile viaggio di Shackleton al Polo Sud (1959) di Alfred Lansing
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542) di ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
Lo sherpa (2001) di Jamling Tenzing Norgay
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) di J. H. Patterson
Nel cuore dell'oceano: la vera storia della baleniera Essex (2000) di Nathaniel Philbrick
Il Milione (1298) di Marco Polo
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) di John Wesley Powell
127 ore intrappolato dalla montagna (2004) di Aron Ralston
Alive: the story of the Andes survivors (1974) di Piers Paul Read
Of Whales and Men (1954) di R.B. Robertson
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) di Theodore Roosevelt
Terra degli uomini (1939) di Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ghiaccio: la spedizione della nave Enrurance (1919) di Ernest Shackleton
La morte sospesa (1988) di Joe Simpson
Il comandante e gli squali (2001) di Doug Stanton
Quando gli Arabi vivevano sull'acqua (1964) di Wilfred Thesiger
Sabbie arabe (1959) di Wilfred Thesiger
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1905) di Reuben Gold Thwaites
Gli innocenti all'estero: viaggio in Italia dei nuovi pellegrini (1869) di Mark Twain

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