NYT Expeditions Disasters and Adventures
New York Times Bestseller List for January 15, 2017
ATLAS OBSCURA
By Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
Publisher: Workman • ISBN: 9780761169086
A dense (nearly 500 pages) richly documented ultimate explorer's guide to more than 700 hidden marvels, events and curiosities around the world.
DEAD WAKE
By Erik Larson
Publisher: Crown • ISBN: 9780307408877
The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915; by the author of “The Devil in the White City.”
SULLY
By Chesley B Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow
Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins • ISBN: 9780062561206
A memoir by the pilot who performed the successful emergency landing of a plane with 155 passengers on the Hudson River in 2009. The basis for the movie.
WILD
By Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Vintage • ISBN: 9780307476074
A woman’s account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike she took along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. A 2014 movie.
BARBARIAN DAYS
By William Finnegan
Publisher: Penguin Press • ISBN: 9780143109396
This Pulitzer Prize-winning surfing chronicle and memoir by a New Yorker writer celebrates a lifelong obsession.
THE INVENTION OF NATURE
By Andrea Wulf
Publisher: Vintage • ISBN: 9780345806291
The life of the visionary German explorer, scientist and naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
By David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster • ISBN: 9781476728759
The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
By Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin • ISBN: 9781101221570
The sinking of the New England whaleship Essex in 1820, by a sperm whale. The basis of the movie.
THE OREGON TRAIL
By Rinker Buck
Publisher: Simon & Schuster • ISBN: 9781451659177
The author and his brother travel 2,000 miles by mule and wagon from Missouri to Oregon.
PACIFIC
By Simon Winchester
Publisher: Harper • ISBN: 9780062315427
A biography of the Pacific Ocean.