Ten Books That Will Take You on an Adventure

Robinson
Crusoe

By  Daniel Defoe  

Call
#: F DeFoe

–During
one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600’s, an Englishman
becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty
years on a deserted island.

Treasure
of Khan

By  Clive Cussler

Call
#: F Cussler

Dirk
Pitt returns in a fast-paced adventure that takes the latter-day James
Bond from a Russian lake to the sands of Mongolia in search of the
treasure of Xanadu. Meanwhile, a murderous tycoon is bent on world
domination, and only Pitt and his crack NUMA team can stop him.

Around
The World in Eighty Days

By  Jules Verne

Call
#: F Verne

Follows
the  1872 adventures
of the  reserved
Phileas Fogg, an imperturbable English gentleman, and his French
manservant Passepartout, as he tries to win his rash wager that he can
travel completely around the world in eighty days.

Pirates

By
Celis Rees

Call
#: YF Rees

In
1722, after arriving with her brother at the family’s Jamaican
plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy
Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together
they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

The
Bourne Identity

By
Robert Ludlum

Call
#: F Ludlum

A
shooting victim, suffering from amnesia, finds himself with a Swiss
bank account in the name of Jason Bourne, a professional assassin being
manipulated by a top-secret American government organization to kill
his arch rival, the dreaded Carlos.

Into
Thin Air

By
Jon Krakauer

Call
#: 796.522 Kra

–More
than 250 previously unseen photographs complement the author’s account
of a fateful expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest

Shadow
Divers

By
Robert Kurson

Call
#: 940.545 Kur

Recounts the
1991 discovery of a sunken German U-boat by two recreational scuba divers,
tracing how they devoted the following six years to researching the
identities of the submarine and its crew, correcting historical texts
and breaking new grounds in the world of diving along the way.

The
Endurance

By
Caroline Alexander

Call
#: 919.89 Ale

Drawing
on previously unavailable sources, this riveting account of Sir Ernest
Shackleton’s 1914 expedition to Antarctica
presents, for the first time, 150 images by Australian photographer
Frank Hurley, whose stunning visual record of the ordeal
was–amazingly—preserved.

Climb

Edited
by Clint Willis

Call
#: 796.522 Cli

 A collection of writing on
mountaineering spanning a century of great literature, from Evelyn
Waugh and H. G. Wells to contemporary authors such as Daniel Duane and
Maureen O’Neill. Selections are about danger and its consequences, the
allure ofDirk Pitt returns in a fast-paced adventure that takes the
latter-day James Bond from a Russian lake to the sands of Mongolia in
search of the treasure of Xanadu. Meanwhile, a murderous tycoon is bent
on world domination, and only Pitt and his crack NUMA team can stop him.
mountains, dramatic rescues and tragedies, and the
indomitable will and folly of man.

The
Perfect Storm

By
Sebastian Junger

Call
#: 974.45 Jun

October
1991. It was “the perfect storm”–a tempest that may happen only once
in a century–a nor’easter created by so rare a combination of factors
that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories
high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to
inconceivable levels few people on earth have ever witnessed.