Bruce Barcott

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst By Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall (1970)

No. 5

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Shackleton By Roland Huntford (1986)

No. 9

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The 10 Greatest Adventure Biographies

Clear some space on the bookshelf.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer By Tim Jeal (2007)

No. 8

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Into the Wild By Jon Krakauer (1996)

No. 4

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West By Wallace Stegner (1954)

No. 1

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu By Laurence Bergreen (2007)

No. 3

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Last Season By Eric Blehm (2006)

No. 7

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Tenzing: Hero of Everest By Ed Douglas (2003)

No. 6

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Good Man Down

Jon Krakauer returns with an epic story of sacrifice and betrayal

Monday, May 25, 2009

Survival Books

Two new plane-crash memoirs hope to soar into the survival-narrative canon.

Monday, May 04, 2009

Wanting

By Richard Flanagan

Monday, March 26, 2007

Fight the Power

Think globally, act . . . well, you know

Monday, October 02, 2006

The Pleasure's All Mayan

Thanks to 35 years of development, Mexico's Yucatán coast has been dubbed Gringolandia, a crowded stomping ground of all-inclusive big-box hotels for hordes of sun-scorched spring-breakers. So...

Thursday, August 24, 2006

The Evolution Revolution

Our greatest science writers take on intelligent design in books that explore the theories of Charles Darwin—and the 21st-century consequences of not believing