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   Fate is the Hunter

   Ernest K. Gann

   A white-knuckle, philosophical journey into the cockpit during the golden, deadly age of aviation, where survival is a roll of the dice.

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   • tense
   • awe-inspiring
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   Reach for the Sky

   Larry Forrester, Paul Brickhill and others · 2000

   An exhilarating, stiff-upper-lip testament to sheer human stubbornness and the thrill of flight.

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   • tense
   • earnest
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   Carrying the fire

   Michael Collins

   A wry, poetic, and profoundly human reflection on the ultimate solitary journey.

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   • awe-inspiring
   • reflective
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   Alive!

   Piers Paul Read · 1993

   A harrowing, frostbitten descent into the absolute limits of human endurance and the agonizing moral choices required to survive.

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   • claustrophobic
   • harrowing
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   West with the Night

   Beryl Markham

   A breathtakingly lyrical soaring over the African landscape and the fierce independence of a life lived entirely on its own terms.

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   • awe-inspiring
   • human endurance
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   Tunnel in the sky

   Robert A. Heinlein

   A pragmatic, thought-provoking survival story that explores the heavy burden of leadership and the fragile roots of civilization.

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   • earnest
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   The first mountain man

   William W. Johnstone

   A gritty, action-packed Western where a rugged frontiersman turns the tables on the bloodthirsty men hunting him.

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   • tense
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   One

   Richard Bach

   A dreamy, philosophical flight through the alternate realities of our own lives and the choices that define us.

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   • earnest
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   Going Solo

   Roald Dahl

   A wry, gripping memoir that filters the harrowing realities of war and the African bush through the lens of a master storyteller's eccentric, unsentimental eye.

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   • matter-of-fact
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    Illusions

    Richard Bach

    A breezy, sun-drenched philosophical parable that invites you to question the limits of your own reality.

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    • earnest
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    Last of the breed

    Louis L'Amour

    A gripping, ice-cold test of human endurance where ancestral wilderness skills meet the brutal expanse of the Siberian taiga.

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    • tense
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    Flyboys

    James Bradley · 2003

    A harrowing, unflinching descent into one of the Pacific War's darkest and most closely guarded secrets.

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    • tense
    • harrowing

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