Best Books About Adventure
These 17 Books Will Have You Ready to Set Off on a Grand Adventure
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Jon Krakauer's Mount Everest memoir Into Thin Air has been required reading for years, and it's easy to see why. Krakauer survived a massive storm-triggered disaster on Everest in 1996, and his memoir outlines the tense transition from hopeful adventure to a struggle for survival and, eventually, a struggle with survivor's guilt.