The New Adventure Canon

Occupy your off-season with the successes, failures, and bemusements of fellow adventurers. Plus: author picks and ten underappreciated books.

A primer on who to start reading and who you've been overlooking for too long.

Stock your physical and digital library with these must-read and must-see works that capture the fun, danger, and beauty of the cold.

Our biggest library of essentials, with classic tales of adventure, poetry, and how-to bibles

From dog-eared classics to under-the-radar picks, this is our list of 15 books that will awaken the adolescent Outsider.

A playlist that both parents and children can enjoy.

In this excerpt from Annette McGivney's book 'Pure Land,' the author investigates the brutal killing of a Japanese tourist—and things get complicated.

In an excerpt from Kate Harris's new memoir 'Lands of Lost Borders,' the modern-day explorer leaves academia for a bicycle adventure on the Silk Road.

In an excerpt from Kirk Wallace Johnson's new book 'The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century,' Edwin Rist, a 20-year-old champion flytier, pulls off a very strange burglary at the British Museum of Natural History.

In the wake of a bizarre physical attack and the death of her father, Katie Arnold felt paralyzed by the anxieties of parenthood and being a woman alone in the wilderness. She got through it the same way she’d always done, by lacing up and hitting the trail. An exclusive excerpt from her new memoir, Running Home.