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Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:17:11 2010 No.528170 [Reply] [Original]

I am looking for some good adventure books.

So far I have read
Into thin air
into the wild
adrift
walk in the woods

Suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:19:11 2010 No.528181 Henryk Sienkiewicz if you can get him in English, esp. the books With Fire and Sword, Quo Vadis and In Desert and Wilderness.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:22:11 2010 No.528189 >>528170 Over the Edge of the World Into Africa Endurance In The Heart of The Sea

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:23:11 2010 No.528192 File: 301 KB, 702x524, picunrelated.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Alchemist - Paulo Coleho

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:24:11 2010 No.528194 Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels Huckleberry Finn 12 Angry Men

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:26:11 2010 No.528200 And of course Rudyard Kipling's olde schoole stuff, not to mention Joseph motherfucking Conrad, one of the very few people to have tied together adventure and serious literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:27:11 2010 No.528203 Touching the void Probably the most famous mountaineering disaster book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:28:11 2010 No.528204 >>528194 Uhh, those are works of fiction. It seems as though the OP wants nonfiction as indicated by the 4 books in his post.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:33:11 2010 No.528222 >>528204 My mistake. Because of both my preferences and the nature of this board, I consider fiction to be cognizant with literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 17:41:11 2010 No.528253 Krakauer is boring as fuck not intended to elicit negative response, I just can't stand his writing

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 18:21:11 2010 No.528446 The Three Musketeers Heart of Darkness A Song of Ice and Fire Anything by Zane Grey

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 18:22:11 2010 No.528449 Ghost by John Ringo If you want nonfiction, The Serpent and the Rainbow is a good bet. Also Marco Polo's account of his travels.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 18:23:11 2010 No.528454 >>528449 >nonfiction >Marco Polo 0/10

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 18:26:11 2010 No.528464 >>528454 Marco Polo is nonfiction in the same way Teachings of Don Juan is nonfiction.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 18:29:11 2010 No.528474 File: 90 KB, 467x691, we pointed them north.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "We Pointed Them North" by E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott The story of cattle drives from Texas to Miles City, Montana in the 1870s and 1880s. Good American history.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 7 18:33:11 2010 No.528484 >>528170 River of Doubt

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