October 22, 2024

Author: Tony Horwitz Captain James Cook sailed 150,000 miles in the mid-1700s, making the last great voyages of discovery and […]

This biography by Stephen Ambrose is about Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis & Clark expedition fame. Ambrose assembles a mix of expedition journal excerpts and his own modern day commentary into a wonderful story of adventure, exploration, grit, and human challenges. It might be best read while paddling down the Missouri River

Author: Eddy Harris Mississippi Solo is a beautiful true-life American adventure about a black man paddling a canoe alone down

Author: Lynne Cox Epic swim after epic swim, Lynne Cox describes her experiences in such vividness that one can almost

Author: Diana Nyad Dream adventures rarely just happen. They take a lot of time, effort, and often many years of

People tackle epic physical adventures for many different reasons. Some do it for the emotional healing effect that a large dose of nature, exercise, and unimpeded opportunity to ponder life can bring. Cheryl Strayed demonstrates this in an existing, yet deeply personal memoir about her own healing on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Author: Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge M.D. My father gave me this book when I was approaching the half-century

Author: Spencer Johnson Do you feel your life is stuck in a rut because you knowingly, or unwittingly, fear and

As Hutchinson puts it in this book, endurance is “the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop.” He helps disentangle the link between mind and body in a ways that allows you to extend your physical limits further than you ever believed possible.

Want to know how some people always seem blessed with success? And do you want to know how you can be like that? It’s not necessarily IQ or how you were raised. This book on neuroscience presents interesting techniques that breed success.