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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?
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
ByJedidiah Jenkins
2018 • 59 Readers • 338 pages • 3.5
Phenomenal
ByLeigh Ann Henion
2015 • 3 Readers • 288 pages • 2.3
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
ByEdward Abbey
1968 • 175 Readers • 269 pages • 4
A Woman's Trip to Alaska
BySeptima Maria Collis
1890 • 2 Readers • 230 pages • 4.5
Oprah's
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
ByCheryl Strayed
2004 • 746 Readers • 338 pages • 3.9
1997 • 879 Readers • 4.3
#2 of 2 in Bryson and Katz
1997 • 685 Readers • 416 pages • 4
Seven Years in Tibet
ByHeinrich Harrer
1952 • 108 Readers • 288 pages • 4.1
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
ByElizabeth Gilbert
2004 • 673 Readers • 364 pages • 3.3