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What are your favorite adventure biographies?

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@adam
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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 Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Into the Wild
Seven Years in Tibet
Magellan
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Man-eaters of Kumaon
The histories
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
A Woman's Trip to Alaska
Shackleton: A Biography
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
A Voyage Long and Strange
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
Wavewalker
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Life of Pi
Phenomenal