great list but in my opinion should have included Ed Viesturs ('No Shortcuts To The Top'). OUTSTANDING!

I Married Adventure (1940) by Osa Johnson is both an amazing autobiography and a captivating biography that should have made it into this listing. Besides adding a woman adventurer to your listing, it would have honored the stunning and pioneering wildlife documentaries of explorer Martin Johnson. The many adventures---by foot, camel and air---of this remarkable couple can be found online at www.SafariMuseum.com or in person in Chanute, Kansas, within the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum.

Read it and you'll know......

I think your writer and your magazine should have done a better job researching and including books by and about women. Disappointed.

"Canoeing With The Cree" by Eric Sevareid is an incredible tale of two boys, just out of high school, with no particular outdoor experience who travel 2500 miles by canoe from Minnesota to Fort Yukon on Hudson Bay. Sevareid's account of his youthful trip is one thrill of a fireside read.

I'm astounded that your list didn't include Joe Simpson's Into the Void.

Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage" is one of the most profound books depicting the United State's earliest explorers. This book gives an amazing historical perspective on Lewis & Clark's adventure across the not-yet claimed American West and the politics/scandal behind Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. The rigor, time, and efforts expended during the exploration of the young/developing nation has never been so vividly presented. IF it's not one of the top ten, then it's definitely no. 11!

This list of adventurer bios is quite good; however, there is a recent book which could make #11 if the list is expanded: Grand Obsession - Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of Grand Canyon. It was released in 2007 by an indie press, so it doesn't get much notice. But it is an excellent read, and dovetails nicely with John Wesley Powell's story. Whereas most Grand Canyon books tend to focus on the Colorado River and its first navigation, this book tells the story of the much more difficult exploration of the Canyon's interior. It's also fascinating study of the personal costs of obsession with wilderness and the glory that can come with it.

Charles Lindberghs Bio is one of the best books I have ever read and the fact that he was an American should trump many of these other books... Hands down this book will have you sitting on the edge of your seat from start to finish as you rush with Lindbergh to build a theoretically capable plane and launch into the unknown in chase for the prize with litte more than a compass and sandwhich for the most monumental journey of this century...

Great list of books to add to my reading pile, but I'm pretty disappointed that there were no biographies of women on the list. I'd start with Ken Cuthbertson's "Nobody Said Not to Go" about Emily "Mickey" Hahn. From the NY Times review, "s a novel, Emily Hahn's life simply would not do. It is too much of many too many things. There were the early years in the 1920's during which she challenged authority by, variously, becoming a mining engineer, dressing as a man, taking off first across the Western United States and later on an 18-month solo trip to the Belgian Congo. There was a suicide attempt and addictions to opium and morphine (though not at the same time). Hahn's restlessness also led her to spend years in Asia, during which she was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai; to dabble at spying; and to have an affair and an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong before the outbreak of World War II...Emily Hahn's life -- including a 50-year career as a New Yorker writer"

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I guess that to receive the credit loans from banks you must have a great reason. But, one time I've received a student loan, because I wanted to buy a bike.