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True Adventure Stories

Recovering stolen treasures. Exploring lost locations. Travelling untamed wilderness. True-life stories that read like fiction! Try one of these thrilling non-fiction adventures!

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  • The Art Spy

    the Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

    Young, Michelle (Michelle T.)
    Book, 2025New York, NY : HarperOne, 2025. — 940.531 YOU
  • Atlas Obscura. Wild Life

    An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders

    Giaimo, Cara
    Book, 2024New York : Workman Publishing, 2024. — 570 GIA
  • The Explorers Club

    a Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration

    Book, 2023California : Ten Speed Press, [2023] — 910.922 EXP
  • River of the Gods

    Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

    Millard, Candice
    Book, 2022New York : Doubleday, [2022] — 916.2043 MIL
  • Burning the Books

    a History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

    Ovenden, Richard
    Book, 2020Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2020. — 363.31 OVE
  • True Raiders

    the Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant

    Ricca, Brad
    Book, 2021New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 933.442 RIC
  • Vanished Beyond the Map

    the Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell

    Shoalts, Adam, 1986-
    Book, 2025Toronto, Ontario : Allen Lane, 2025. — 917.192 SHO
  • A Marriage at Sea

    a True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

    Elmhirst, Sophie
    Book, 2025New York : Riverhead Books, 2025. — 910.9164 ELM
  • Bicycling With Butterflies

    My 10,201-mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

    Dykman, Sara, 1985-
    Book, 2021Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, Inc., 2021. — 595.789 DYK
  • Book, 2020New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020. — 917.2867 DIA
  • Book, 2016New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. — 916.2 WOO
  • Aloha Wanderwell

    the Border-smashing, Record-setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer

    Fink-Jensen, Christian, 1969-
    Book, 2016Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, 2016. — 910.92 FIN
  • Metal Detecting

    the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Uncovering History, Adventure, and Treasure

    Smith, Mark, 1972-
    Book, 2016New York : Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 622.19 SIM
  • Pirate Hunters

    Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

    Kurson, Robert
    Book, 2015New York : Random House, 2015. — 910.9163 KUR
  • A Walk in the Woods

    Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

    Bryson, Bill
    Book, 2015Toronto, Ont. : Doubleday Canada Ltd. ; Anchor Publ., 2015,c1997. — 796.510974 BRY
  • The Monuments Men

    Allied Heros, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

    Edsel, Robert M.
    Book, 2013New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 940.531 EDS
  • Saving Italy

    the Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures From the Nazis

    Edsel, Robert M.
    Book, 2013New York : W. W. Norton, c2013. — 940.5345 EDS