What are your favorite adventure biographies?Answer

Even before fantasy and science fiction were genres we had adventure biographies. Travelers would journey into the unknown and share their heroic tale with the world (or someone else would in some cases). Whether you've experienced a call to adventure or prefer to read tales from others, what adventure biographies have stuck with you?

Phenomenal

Phenomenal
ByLeigh Ann Henion

2015 • 3 Readers • 288 pages 2.3

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

1968 • 141 Readers • 269 pages 3.9

A Woman's Trip to Alaska

A Woman's Trip to Alaska
BySeptima Maria Collis

1890 • 2 Readers • 230 pages 4.5

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#0 in Oprah's

2012 • 636 Readers • 338 pages 3.9

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

1997 • 689 Readers 4.3

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail

#2 of 2 in Bryson and Katz

1997 • 524 Readers • 416 pages 4

Seven Years in Tibet

Seven Years in Tibet
ByHeinrich Harrer

1952 • 84 Readers • 288 pages 4

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

2004 • 582 Readers • 364 pages 3.3