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With bold adventure and biographical insight, Candice Millard recounts Theodore Roosevelt’s perilous 1913–14 descent of an uncharted Amazon tributary, exposing the harsh jungle, violent rapids, and personal trials that reshaped a nation’s map.

A true chronicle of Christopher Knight, who vanished in 1986 and spent 27 years living alone in a Maine forest, surviving by stealth, wit, and occasional theft.

A biography of Samuel Zemurray, the banana magnate who rose from a penniless immigrant to one of New Orleans' richest men, shaping the United Containers trade and influencing U.S. foreign policy.

When a shy boy discovers a forgotten pond in his neighborhood, he and his friends set out to restore it, learning about seasons, ecology, and the power of teamwork.

Zen and Buddhism have often found a resonance with surfing ideals and way of life and enjoyed a mystique in surfing lingo, graphics and in films. This book melds Zen insights with surf wisdom and stories in a clear, confiding, and frequently humerous voice. Fed up with his suburban teenage life, at age sixteen Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's book Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His wandering, searching journey is a coming-of-age tale that takes him from Hawaiian communes to French monasteries to the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is his chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave. Trying to find Zen in the rhythmic crashing of waves, Jaimal eventually discovers something of eternal truth in the great salty blue.