Expeditions
10 books
By Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
A dense (nearly 500 pages) richly documented ultimate explorer's guide to more than 700 hidden marvels, events and curiosities around the world.
By Erik Larson
The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915; by the author of “The Devil in the White City.”
By Chesley B Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow
A memoir by the pilot who performed the successful emergency landing of a plane with 155 passengers on the Hudson River in 2009. The basis for the movie.
By Cheryl Strayed
A woman’s account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. A 2014 movie.
By William Finnegan
This Pulitzer Prize-winning surfing chronicle and memoir by a New Yorker writer celebrates a lifelong obsession.
By Andrea Wulf
The life of the visionary German explorer, scientist and naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt.
By David McCullough
The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
By Nathaniel Philbrick
The sinking of the New England whaleship Essex in 1820, by a sperm whale. The basis of the movie.
By Rinker Buck
The author and his brother travel 2,000 miles by mule and wagon from Missouri to Oregon.
By Simon Winchester
A biography of the Pacific Ocean.