New York Times Bestsellers

Expeditions Disasters And Adventures
Top 10 Bestsellers List.

Rank Info Synopsis
1

Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras And Ella Morton
9780761169086

A dense (nearly 500 pages) richly documented ultimate explorer's guide to more than 700 hidden marvels, events and curiosities around the world.
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2

Dead Wake
Erik Larson
9780307408877

The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915; by the author of The Devil in the White City.
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3

Sully
Chesley B Sullenberger Iii With Jeffrey Zaslow
9780062561206

A memoir by the pilot who performed the successful emergency landing of a plane with 155 passengers on the Hudson River in 2009. The basis for the movie.
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4

Wild
Cheryl Strayed
9780307476074

A womans account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. A 2014 movie.
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5

Barbarian Days
William Finnegan
9780143109396

This Pulitzer Prize-winning surfing chronicle and memoir by a New Yorker writer celebrates a lifelong obsession.
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6

The Invention Of Nature
Andrea Wulf
9780345806291

The life of the visionary German explorer, scientist and naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt.
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7

The Wright Brothers
David Mccullough
9781476728759

The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
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8

In The Heart Of The Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick
9781101221570

The sinking of the New England whaleship Essex in 1820, by a sperm whale. The basis of the movie.
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9

The Oregon Trail
Rinker Buck
9781451659177

The author and his brother travel 2,000 miles by mule and wagon from Missouri to Oregon.
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10

Pacific
Simon Winchester
9780062315427

A biography of the Pacific Ocean.
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