For a while now, I’ve been in the mood to read an adventure style travel book, but from real life. Not to cities, but to places like deep in the jungle or the desert or… something. I’m thinking something akin to Heart of Darkness, except factual.

There have to be books like this, right? The British spent the better part of the last few centuries traveling deep into uncharted territory, and I’m sure people still do it today. Doesn’t anyone survive and write books about it?

Help me out, my nature and adventure loving friends! Where do I even begin looking for something like this? Amazon has been rather unhelpful so far.

Jeez… my Kindle is dangerous. I just dropped $30 in like five minutes.

http://www.amazon.com/Skeletons-on-the-Zahara/dp/B000FC1AO8/ref=pd_sim_kinc_4

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Africa-Adventures-Stanley-Livingstone/dp/B000FBFNCO/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1217303402&sr=1-17

http://www.amazon.com/A-Thousand-Splendid-Suns/dp/B000SCHC0Q/ref=pd_sim_kinc_10

I just finished reading “Into thin air” by Jon Krakaur, the guy who wrote “Into the wild” which was recently turned into a movie. It’s about his attempt to climb Everest, and how a bunch of his teammates die trying. I would recommend it…think it was only 4 bucks on the kindle

I second that! I read it many years ago, but I remember it being completely enthralling.

I cannot type well after spraining most of my left fingers in a game of basketball today (I’m awful at it btw) but will soon contribute!

Try Churchill’s early stuff.

art’s right churchill was quite the wild author :D

http://www.amazon.com/Honorable-WINSTON-CHURCHILL-PAINTING-PASTIME/dp/B000S8M4Q2

Or, perhaps

http://www.amazon.com/River-War-account-Reconquest-Sudan/dp/B0013BIZK2/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217438994&sr=1-29

Thanks Art!

That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m looking for. Skeletons on the Zahara is good so far, by the way.

You could try T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his account of his time leading the Arab Rebellion against the Ottomans during WWI. It’s a bit wordy and probably the most homoerotic thing I’ve read outside of some of your steamier exchanges with Zach, but some of his writing is just beautiful.

http://www.amazon.com/SEVEN-PILLARS-WISDOM-KINDLE-ENG/dp/B0018DPTMW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1217454855&sr=1-1