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?

Into the Wild

Into the Wild
ByJon Krakauer,Christopher Johnson McCandless

1996 • 1,046 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

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

#2 of 2 in Bryson and Katz

1997 • 582 Readers • 416 pages 4

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

1997 • 737 Readers 4.3