The Essential Adventure Library: 50 Non-fiction Adventure Books — 50 книг

Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt

In this astonishing tale of adventure and survival Roosevelt details his participation in the 1913-1914 Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition, undertaken a year after his failed bid for reelection. The team set out to find the headwaters of the River of Doubt then paddle the river to the Amazon. What was originally intended to be “zoogeographic reconnaissance” soon turned into a tale of survival, with turbulent whitewater and peril around every bend of the river, so much so that it nearly took the life of the “Bull Moose” himself.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:15

South: The Endurance Expeditionby Ernest Shackleton

Legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton details his own efforts to cross the Antarctic by sled. Adventure tale turns survival story when Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, becomes trapped in the ice, where it would remain for ten months before the hull finally surrendered to the strength of the ice, forcing the men to set out on foot for a distant whaling station.
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Юг - неопубликованный перевод

Юг - документальный фильм, снятый во время экспедиции

Книга написана Шеклтоном по возвращении из Имперской трансантарктической экспедиции

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:16

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

A chilling account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster as told by John Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, who witnessed the tragedy unfold firsthand. The onset of a powerful storm just as multiple teams attempt to summit Everest leads to devastating results, and those on the mountain are pushed to the brink of their endurance to make it out alive.
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"Восхождение" Анатолий Букреев, Г. Вестон Де Уолт - о тех же событиях с другой точки зрения

в конце этого года ожидается фильм Эверест о событиях, описанных в книге

Смерть в горах - фильм о событиях


Книга посвящена трагедии коммерческой экспедиции на Эвересте, когда погибло пятеро участников-альпинистов, включая двух руководителей — Роба Холла и Скотта Фишера. Джон Кракауэр по заданию журнала Outside стал участником экспедиции на Эверест в мае 1996 года, которую организовывала новозеландская компания «Консультанты по приключениям» во главе с Робом Холлом. Роб Холл и Скотт Фишер из компании «Горное Безумие» решили объединиться во время восхождения на Эверест, однако допустили много ошибок. На вершину Эвереста клиенты взошли во второй половине дня, во время спуска у альпинистов кончился кислород, а затем они попали в сильнейшую бурю. Буря продолжалась два дня, и в ней погибли руководители экспедиций Роб Холл, Скотт Фишер и гид Энди Харрис, а также два клиента «Консультантов по приключениям». Один из клиентов «Консультантов по приключениям» Бек Уизерс был дважды оставлен на горе, так как спутники считали, что он замерз, но он чудом спасся и в дальнейшем пережил множество ампутаций. В книге Джон Кракауэр осуждает коммерциализацию Эвереста, а также приводит факты гибели экспедиции индо-тибетской пограничной службы, которые поднимались в тот же день со стороны Тибета.
Книга Джона Кракауэра стала бестселлером в США, а затем и во всем мире. Журнал Тайм признал её книгой года, а также возглавил первое место в списке бестселлеров по мнению журнала Нью-Йорк Таймс. Книга «В разреженном воздухе» выдвигалась на Пулитцеровскую премию.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:16

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The tragic yet inspirational tale of Christopher McCandless, a young college graduate who abandoned a promising future in exchange for a life on the road. Hitchhiking across North America, McCandless eventually reaches his final destination, Alaska, where he aims to survive on his own in the wilderness. Krakauer follows McCandless’s philosophical journey full circle, from rebellious twenty-something who just wants to escape society to man who is fighting for his life and realizes that a life without the company of others is not complete.
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В диких условиях 2007 - экранизация книги

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:17

Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a French pilot better known for his work The Little Prince, was equal parts adventurer and literary giant. His poetic musings on the life well lived, combined with his recounting of various calamities he and others faced while flying the mail over the Sahara and the Andes mountains, makes this one adventure book no man should be without.
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Награды: Grand Prize for Fiction from the French Academy, 1939; National Book Award for 1939 Nonfiction

В 1938 году, пытаясь совершить перелёт по маршруту Нью-Йорк — Огненная Земля на трансатлантическом корабле «Иль-де-Франс», Экзюпери потерпел аварию в Гватемале: его самолёт рухнул, едва поднявшись над аэродромом. Механик погиб, пилот попал в госпиталь с тяжёлыми переломами. Перевезённый для лечения в Нью-Йорк в крайне подавленном состоянии, он по настоянию своего литературного наставника Жана Прево приступил к систематизации ранее опубликованных статей и написанию новых заметок «для себя»; из этого материала впоследствии сложилась «Планета людей» (в договоре с американским издательством она именовалась «Ветер, песок и звёзды»)

Коротко на Википедии

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:18

The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

The report of the first expedition to travel west to the Pacific and return safely, as recorded by the famous expedition leaders. Follow along in this classic account as new species, new peoples, and new worlds are discovered.
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Коротко на Википедии

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:18

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

Stephen Ambrose, better known as author of the bestseller turned miniseries Band of Brothers, offers an insightful look into the life and adventures of Meriwether Lewis, co-leader of the Corps of Discovery, also known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:22

Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard

Captain Cook is most famous for his multiple voyages throughout the South Pacific in the late 18th century, where he made first European contact with many island civilizations, including the discovery of Hawaii. In this thrilling retelling of his life and adventures, Dugard examines Cook’s unequalled rise from peasant to sea captain, followed by his tyrannical turn and eventual demise.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:24

Death in the Long Grass by Peter Hathaway Capstick

In this, his first book, Capstick shows us why he became a legend in the world of big game hunting. Capstick makes a field of ten foot high grass (and the angry fauna that no doubt reside there) the most terrifying thing on planet earth, but also the most exciting.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:27

The Man Eaters of Tsavo by Colonel Henry Patterson

This is the 1907 account by Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson, who was dispatched to Kenya by the British East Africa Company to build a railway bridge over the Tsavo River. During construction, workers were regularly killed by a pair of man-eating lions later known as the Man Eaters of Tsavo, or as the locals called them, the Ghost and the Darkness. Patterson set out to rid the workers of this threat, and the story is thrilling.
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Призрак и Тьма - не по книге, но о тех же событиях

Джон Генри Паттерсон на Википедии

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:28

The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives by Christopher Columbus

What type of man was Christopher Columbus? Eccentric? A madman? The greatest explorer that ever lived? Draw your own conclusions through an examination of the journals of Columbus himself, where he chronicles the build up to the initial 1492 journey and all the expeditions that followed.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:31

Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

Cultural explorer Wilfred Thesiger went to the wild deserts of the Middle East to seek out respite from the oppression of society. While there he became the first man to cross the Rub’ al Khali, aka “The Empty Quarter.” The Empty Quarter is one of the largest sand deserts in the world. Compromising a large portion of the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula, it is composed of 250,000 square miles of the most deadly terrain on terra firma. Thesiger set out to cross this great expanse and planned to create a map of the region during his journey. He succeeded, crossing the vast unknown of the Empty Quarter not once, but twice, between 1946 and 1949.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:32

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell

A masterful description of the Colorado River as told by the leader of the first expedition to follow the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. A must for whitewater river rats.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:32

High Adventure by Edmund Hillary

Hillary’s own account of he and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay’s 1953 summit of Mount Everest, the first confirmed Everest summit ever.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:38

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Journey by Alfred Lansing

The bestselling account of Shackleton’s legendary Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which changed from an ambitious expedition to a brutal struggle for survival against the extremes of Antarctica. Lansing’s extensive research into Shackleton’s journals and interviews with surviving crew members provides thrilling insight into the harrowing ordeal faced by the men of the Endurance.
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Еще одна книга в подборке о судьбе экипажа Эндьюранс.

Словосочетание "Лидерство во льдах" прилеплено исключительно для лучших продаж.
О лидерских качествах Шеклтона написана хорошая книга Лидерство на грани. Уроки лидерства, почерпнутые из героической саги об антарктической экспедиции Шеклтона , именно здесь поведение полярника анализируется с точки зрения эффективных стратегий для лидеров

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:39

Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg

Personalities conflict and wills are tested as an unlikely group of backpackers becomes lost in the wild in this modern day tale of survival set against the backdrop of the Amazon rainforest.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:46

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

When Joe Simpson and his climbing partner Simon Yates set out to climb the treacherous Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, they knew they were undertaking a very dangerous task. When an accident sends Joe crashing into a ravine, Simon assumes his death and is forced to continue on without him. Left alone and critically injured, Simpson proceeds to crawl down the glacier, arriving barely alive at his base camp 3 ½ days later. An astonishing tale of one man’s will to survive.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:46

Into the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Hailed as the story that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, this sea story recounts the experiences of the Whaleship Essex, which was attacked and sunk by an irate sperm whale in 1820. Following the attack, some of the crew escape to a local island where they are slowly ravaged by hunger and disease, eventually resorting to cannibalism to survive.
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В сердце моря - ожидаемая экранизация

Статья о крушении Эссекса на Википедии

Чейз Оуэн "Китобоец «Эссекс»" - о тех же событиях

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:47

Alive by Piers Paul Read

The dreadful account of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes Mountains carrying a Uruguayan Rugby team and friends. Alone for seventy two days with no other resources available, the survivors found themselves forced into eating their own dead to survive.
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seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:48

Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King

Dean King’s reexamination of the 1815 wreck of the Commerce off the coast of Africa and the unbelievable hardships faced by crew as they struggled to survive in the deadly Sahara Desert is one of the greatest survival stories ever told. Keep a tall glass of water next to you while reading, you’ll never appreciate it more.

seamus 30 июня 2015 г., 00:51