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Just For You! -- True Stories of Exploration and Survival

If you enjoy exciting true stories of exploration, adventure, survival, and military and aviation history, these books are for you!

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  • The Rediscovery of America

    Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    Blackhawk, Ned,
    Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, retelling U.S. history from the side of America's Indigenous peoples.
    Book, 2023New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023] — 970.0049 BLACKHAWK
  • In this memoir, 89-year-old Chester Nez chronicles both his years serving as a Code Talker during WWII and his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation.
    Book, 2018New York : Dutton Caliber, 2018. — B NEZ
  • A Walk in the Park

    the True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

    Fedarko, Kevin,
    Kevin Fedarko chronicles his year-long effort to find a 750-mile path along the highly dangerous, life-changing length of the Grand Canyon, through a vertical wilderness suspended between the rims and the Colorado River.
    Book, 2024New York : Scribner, 2024. — 917.9132 FEDARKO
  • Damn Lucky

    One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

    Maurer, Kevin,
    The incredible true story of John "Lucky" Luckadoo, who survived 25 missions as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in WWII.
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 940.5449 MAURER
  • Realm of Ice and Sky

    Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

    Levy, Buddy, 1960-
    A thrilling narrative of Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman, who pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each.
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — 910.9113 LEVY
  • Boyd

    The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

    Coram, Robert
    John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Many think of Boyd, the man who in simulated air-to-air combat defeated every challenger in less than 40 seconds, as the most influential military theorist since…
    eBook, 2002Little, Brown and Company, 2002