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Johnson Expeditions

Earth Day, 2020

 

We like a good yarn and I’m sure you do as well. Mountaineering? Seafaring? Travel and the natural environment? Browse below for our suggestions on the best of the best.  In keeping with my background as an outdoor educator and training as a historian, we specialize in narrative non-fiction that inspires (or at least terrifies). Of course, you may order most anything in print—just use the "Search" button at the top of this page.

 

This little shop is a pandemic project. For those of us in the travel business, 2020 was… an adventure. Nearly all means of travel, including the ships we charter, along with planes, trains and automobiles, were shut down. All except one. I was reminded that when my grandfather and dozens of extended family members ran the largest bookstore in New England for over 100 years, their logo was a ship—because “you can travel the world in a boat or a book."

 

For us, the dry-docking of ships occasioned a turn back toward that other time-tested means of traveling the world—the engagement of mind and imagination through reading. 

 

Will you let us serve as your guide? -KEJ

 

 

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."  – GK Chesterton

Freedom Climbers: The Golden Age of Polish Climbing
The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
Conquistadors of the Useless
Alone on the Wall (Expanded)
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna
Beyond the Mountain
Psychovertical
Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
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David Roberts

Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
A Voyage for Madmen
Around the World in 80 Years: The Oldest Man to Sail Alone around the World - Twice!
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Updated)
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Journals of Captain Cook
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Revised)
The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
The Magic of Swatchways
Once Is Enough
Wanderer: Lyons Press Maritime Classics
The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner) Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War
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Nathaniel Philbrick

Bad Friday
The Johnstown Flood
Young Men and Fire: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
The Children's Blizzard
Wave: A Memoir
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: A National Book Award Winner
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Timothy Egan

Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
One Summer: America, 1927
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
Wind, Sand and Stars
West with the Night: A Memoir
The Wright Brothers
The Right Stuff (Second Edition, Revised)
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
Rocket Boys: A Memoir
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West The Wright Brothers 1776
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David McCullough

Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--And WWII Heroes
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-Boats
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Born Survivors
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors
Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Candice Millard

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