The book is a personal recount of the 1997 Everest disaster where eight climbers perished and several others stranded on the highest mountain by a storm.
It is an incredible nonfiction story that highlights the issues of how to be accepted into society, and how finding oneself sometimes conflicts with being an active member of society.
The book follows the journey of 3 of the greatest scientific knowledge of antiquity, the Element, Method of Medicine, and Almagest by Euclid, Galen, and Ptolemy respectively as it travels through seven cities for over a thousand years.
If you are looking for a fun travel book to read to spark your curiosity about the wilderness in the United States, this is a great book to pick.
The book is a novel written in 1988 by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho where the story follows a journey of a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt.
This book is written way back in 1957 and it follows the journey of the 2 main free-spirited characters as they traveled through the United States the old fashion way, by hitchhiking and boxcar trains.
The Lost City of Z is an excellent book that will give you a glimpse of how early explorations were conducted back in the days, how risky it was, and just how terribly unforgiving the Amazon Forest actually is.