These titles will spirit you to some of the planet’s wildest landscapes, without making you leave your armchair.

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CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER—C. S. Forester—Little, Brown ($2.75). It was bargain day this week for adventure-story readers. For the price of one big book, they could get three. Captain Horatio ...

There’s almost nothing better than cracking open a book right where the action takes place—reading Cheryl Strayed’s Wild on the Pacific Crest Trail or Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm beside the ...

Travel is more than just reaching a destination-it's an immersive journey where each mile offers an opportunity for exploration and reflection. And let’s not kid ourselves: A long plane ride also is a ...

For anyone whose New Year’s resolution is to live a more exciting life, these books offer an instructive look at how to find the adventure in even the most everyday occasions. An eventful life doesn’t ...

I won't lie to you. The first thing I did, as soon as I had Kurt Kalata's The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures in my hands, was to thumb through the massive tome to find the pages dedicated to the ...