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On May 2, 2007, three veteran sailors set out on an epic voyage from Florida to France.

On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm.

In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own.

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.

When an Iraqi family is forced to flee their home, they can't bear to leave their beloved cat, Kunkush, behind.

Since the early days of exploration, adventurous women have felt the pull of the mountains.

Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction.

The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing and inspired crowds of men and women alike, along wi

Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson--think Butch Cassidy and the Sunda

Born and raised in Fort McMurray, Damian Asher was a fifteen year veteran and captain in the city's fire department.

Helpers and heroes shine brightest in darkness.

In this classic adventure story, the diaries of two men—a scientist and a mountaineer—reveal their distinct struggles in the unforgiving wilds of the northern landscape.

"Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping ... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas." – Booklist.

The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska’s worst maritime disaster — until it nearly happened again.

The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century.