Explorers and real adventures

[Louise]

Hi all, my brother-in law (age 60) just lost his job, and I want to send him some books to cheer him up. He likes reading true stories about explorers who travel acroos the Antarctic/Sahara and stuff like that - any recommendations?

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Sir Richard Francis Burton's books

[Linda]

Shackelton: His Antarctic Writings

Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen

[Elizabeth☮]

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
In a Sunburned Country

[Deb]

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
The Places in Between
Into thin Air
The Scramble for Africa

[Janet]

If you're looking for fiction mixed with a bit of supernatural, The Terror by Dan Simmons is set on an arctic exploration.

My father also enjoyed the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien, which are the books Master and Commander were based on.

[Virginia]

Aubrey-Maturin series: IMO the best historical fiction ever written
For the brother-in-law: Endurance (about Shackleton expedition)
The Worst Journey in the World by Cherry-Garrard (might have that name spelled wrong) - about part of Scott's expedition that split off to go watch the wintertime penguin rookeries - just amazing
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson - true and also very funny account of hiking the Appalachian trail

[Jackie]

Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick

[Louise]

Thanks :-) I'll get a nice bunch for him in the mail.

[Nancy]

I don't know if this would be appropriate and it's not the genre you requested, but you may want to consider recommending ..How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill. Although some people hated this book, I really liked it. It is about a man of privilege that lost his job, his marriage, and his health and how getting a job at Starbucks saved him.