PRINCE OF WALES LIBRARY: TREK
PRINCE OF WALES LIBRARY: TREK
© 1996 -
Updated June 26, 2006
| Environment | Fitness and Safety | Outdoor Activities | Adventure Books |
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| Call Number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 910.4AEB | Aebi, Tania | Maiden Voyage |
| 919.8 ALE | Alexander,Caroline | The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition |
| 797.1 AND | Anderson, Scott | Distance Fires:1700 mile canoe trip from Duluth, Minnisota to York Factory on Hudson's Bay. |
| 921 BAN | Bangs, Richard | Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death and Transformation on Wild River |
| 921 BLU | Blum, Arlene | Breaking Trail: A Climbers Life (A female climbing pioneer) |
| 921 BRE | Breashears, David | High Exposure: An Eduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places |
| 921 BLA | Blanchet, M. Wylie | The Curve of Time (A widowed mother of five living on Vancouver Island in the 1920s and 30s takes her children exploring the coast in a twenty-five foot boat.) |
| 915.49 BON | Bonington, Chris | Everest the Hard Way |
| 921 BON | Bonington, Chris | Montaineer: Thirty Years of Climbing the World's Greatest Peaks. |
| 796.5220951 B71t (VPL) |
Bonington. Chris | Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Ascent of K2 |
| 796.52 BOU | Boukreev, Anotoli | Above the Clouds |
| 796.52 BOU | Boukreev, Anatoli | The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest |
| 508.71 NOR | Boyd, David R. (Editor) | Northern Wild: Best Cntemporary Canadian Nature Writing |
| 921 DYS | Brower, Kenneth | The Starship and the Canoe |
| 796.5 BUR | Burgess, Al | Everest Canada: the Ultimate Challenge |
| 305.4 BUR | Burns, Robin | Tell Them I Survived: Women in Antarctica |
| 910.4 C13pa (VPL) |
Cahill, Tim | Pass the Butterworms |
| 910.4 CHA | Chapman, Greg | No Time On Our Side (Pisces Submersible) |
| 796.5 CHI | Child, Greg | Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child (Child says of his adventures that they "... have made me feel my life acutely.") |
| 921 COB | Cobb, Sue | The Edge of Everest: A Woman Challenges the Mountain. |
| 919.41 DAV | Davidson, Robyn | Tracks (Woman's trek across Australia's desert.) |
| 914.15 DUF | Duff, Chris | On Celtic Tides: A Man's Journey Around Ireland in a Sea Kayak |
| 921 ELD | Elder, Lauren | And I Alone Survived (Small plane crash in California's Sierras) |
| 796.52 ELS | Else, Richard | The Face: Six Great Climbing Adventures (Rock Climbing) |
| 921 FIN | Finkel, Michael | Alpine Circus |
| 921 TEJ | Freedman, Lewis | Dangerous Steps: Vernon Tejas and the Solo Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley |
| GRA | Graham, Robin Lee | Dove (A boy's single hand sailing adventure.) |
| 796.5 HAB | Haberl, Jim | K2 - Dreams and Reality |
| 796.52 HAB | Haberl, Jim | Risking Adventure: Mountaineering Adventures Around the World. |
| 917.1 HAL | Halsey, David | Magnetic North: A Trek Across Canada (Pacific to Atlantic by foot, dogsled, canoe) |
| 910.4 H47s (VPL) |
Heller, Peter | Set Free in China: Sojourns on the Edge (Expedition Kayaker, River Guide and Writer) |
| 910.4 HEY | Heyerdahl, Thor | Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft |
| 921 HEY | Heydedahl, Thor | Kon-Tiki Man: An Illustrated Biography |
| 921 SHA | Huntford, Roland | Shakleton: Antarctic Explorer |
| 920 JAC | Jackson, Monica | Tents in the Clouds: The First Women's Himalayan Expedition |
| 910.4 KIL | Kiley, Deborah Scaling | Albatros: A True Story of a Woman's Survival at Sea |
| 910.9 MACI | MacInnis, Jeff | Polar Passage: The Historic First Sail Through the Northwest Passage |
| 910.4 MOW | Mowat Farley | The Boat Who Wouldn't Float |
| 921 FOS | Mowat, Farley | Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey |
| 796.5 N78t (VPL) |
Noland, David | Travels Along the Edge (From the Sahara by camel to Vietnam by bicycle) |
| 796.5 OCO | O'Connel, Nicholas | Beyond Risk: Conversations With Climbers |
| 921 MER | Osius, Alison | Second Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr (Disable Climber) |
| 921 PAU | Paulson, Gary | Woodsong An outdoorsman in Northern Minnesota, Paulson has also written many fiction books for teens. |
| 921 PFE | Pfetzer, Mark | Within Reach: My Everest Story |
| 919.8 PYN | Pyne, Stephen J. | The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica |
| 915.49 RID | Ridgeway, Rick | The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2 |
| 910.45 R54e (VPL) |
Ridgway, John and others | Then We Sailed Away: A Family Adventure |
| Ridgway, Marie Christine | No Place for a Woman | |
| Ridgway, Rebecca | Something Amazing (Kayak Trip Around Cape Horn) | |
| Ridgeway, Rick | Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father Ridgeway takes the daughter of a friend who had died in his arms to the Himalayas to search for the place where her father had died. | |
| 796.522 R64e | Roberts, David | Escape Routes: Further Adventure Writings of David Roberts |
| 796.522 R64m | Roberts, David | Moments of Doubt and Other Mountaineering Writings of David Roberts |
| 921 ROS | Roskelley, John | Last Days: Climbing in the Himalayas |
| 921 HAR | Rose, David | The Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves |
| 796.5 ROS | Roskelley, John | Nanda Devi: The Trajic Expedition |
| 797.1 ROU | Rousmaniere, John | Fastnet: Force 10 (Yacht Race in Hurricane Conditions.) |
| 796.5 SHE | Sherman, Paddy | Expeditions to Nowhere (Climbing worldwide) |
| 797.1 STA | Starkell, Don | Paddle Up the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure |
| 971.1 STR | Streetly, Joanna | Paddling Through Time: A Kayaking Journey Through Clayaquot Sound |
| 796.52 TEN | Tenzing, Tashi | Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest |
| 796.52 CLI | Willis, Clint (ed) | Climb: Stories of Survival from Rock, Snow and Ice |
| 917.1 WIL | Wilson, Ian and Sally Wilson | Wilderness Journey: Reliving the Adventures of Canada's Voyageurs |
| 921 WIL | Wilson, Ian | Wilderness Seasons: Life and Adventure in Canada's North (Modern Day) |
Choose the general heading "Adventure" or choose a particular interest like skiing, canoeing, kayaking, mountaineering, rock climbing.
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