Over the past two years, I’ve posted several good, best-of lists of outstanding adventure books. In early 2010, I posted two great recommended reading lists called “National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books” and “Outside Magazine’s Best Adventure Books.” Last month, I posted a list called “Easton Press Greatest Adventure Books of All Time.”
Today, I present you with two similar lists from one of my favorite Web sites, The Art of Manliness (www.artofmanliness.com), which were originally published in June. The first is called “The Essential Adventure Library: 50 Non-fiction Adventure Books” and the second is called “The Essential Man’s Library: 50 Fictional Adventure Books Edition.”
Here are the books that made “The Essential Adventure Library: 50 Non-fiction Adventure Books” list:
1. Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
2. South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
3. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
5. Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
6. The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
7. Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
8. Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard
9. Death in the Long Grass by Peter Hathaway Capstick
10. The Man Eaters of Tsavo by Colonel Henry Patterson
11. The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives by Christopher Columbus
12. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
13. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell
14. High Adventure by Edmund Hillary
15. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Journey by Alfred Lansing
16. Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
17. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
18. Into the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
19. Alive by Piers Paul Read
20. Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
21. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
22. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
23. Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost At Sea by Steven Callahan
24. The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
25. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
26. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
27. In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
28. The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
29. High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears
30. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
31. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
32. Between a Rock and a Hard Place By Aron Ralston
33. K2: The Savage Mountain by Charles S Houston & Robert H. Bates
34. The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America’s Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas by Todd Balf
35. The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold by Frank Kryza
36. Cabeza de Vaca’s Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
37. True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole by Bruce Henderson
38. Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
39. A Man On the Moon: Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
40. Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written by Lennard Bickel
41. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America by Anonymous
42. My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin
43. Of Whales and Men by R. B Robertson
44. The Kid Who Climbed Everest by Bear Grylls
45. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
46. Trespassers on the Roof of the World by Peter Hopkirk
47. On Horseback Through Asia Minor by Frederick Burnaby
48. The Man Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
49. Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming
50. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
Books that made “The Essential Man’s Library: 50 Fictional Adventure Books” list include:
1. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
4. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
5. She by H. Rider Haggard
6. Ayesha: The Return of She by H. Rider Haggard
7. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
8. Southern Mail/Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
9. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
11. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
12. The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari
13. The Pirates of Malaysia by Emilio Salgari
14. The Two Tigers by Emilio Salgari
15. Congo by Michael Crichton
16. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
17. The Lost World by Michael Crichton
18. The Odyssey by Homer
19. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
20. The Lord of the Rings Series by J. R. R. Tolkien
21. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
22. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
23. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
24. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
25. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
26. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
27. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
28. True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
29. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
30. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
31. The Sea Wolf by Jack London
32. Roughing It by Mark Twain
33. The Beach by Alex Garland
34. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
35. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
36. Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
37. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
38. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
39. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
40. Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
41. Sahara by Clive Cussler
42. Treasure by Clive Cussler
43. The Lighthouse at the End of the World by Jules Verne
44. Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
45. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
46. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
49. In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne
50. The People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard
For more in-depth information about the books on these lists, visit http://artofmanliness.com/2009/06/29/50-non-fiction-adventure-books/ and http://artofmanliness.com/2009/06/02/the-essential-man%e2%80%99s-library-adventure-edition-part-one-fiction/.
In the end, how many of these great adventure books have you read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.
If you’re interested in reading more about “Outside Magazine’s Best Adventure Books” list, visit http://leepeacock2010.blogspot.com/2010/05/outsides-best-adventure-books-list.html.
To see the “National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books” list visit http://leepeacock2010.blogspot.com/2010/04/ngs-100-best-adventure-books.html.
To see the “Easton Press Greatest Adventure Books of All Time” list, visit http://leepeacock2010.blogspot.com/2011/08/easton-press-greatest-adventure-books.html.
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