So I buy my dad a lot of books, and he always comments how great the books I get him are- I need a little help this year. Any ideas?
Books he loved:
- Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Dead Mountain, The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- The Maine Woods (Henry David Thoreau)
- The indifferent Stars Above, The Harrowing Story of the Donner Party
- Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
I have gotten him quite a few more, but I am struggling to remember them all. Does anyone have suggestions of good non-fiction adventure books like these? Thanks!
by mainerelichunting
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David Grann has a bunch of books that your dad might enjoy 🙂
All those survival books made me think of The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, a biography about a man who chose to live illegally in the Maine woods and spoke to almost no one for 20 years.
Joshua Slocum’s ‘Sailing Alone Around the World’.
Alone by Admiral Byrd.
When I Fell From the Sky by Julianne Koepcke.
The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by John Geiger.
Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent
Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
Into thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Not historical – it was 1997 – but quite the endurance adventure
I like a lot of those books too and really enjoyed “Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness.”