"America the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot tolerate trees or weather, wish I could've tagged along in the back seat." — Samantha Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You. and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
The author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men examines Americans’ obsession with freedom, travel, and the open road in this funny, entertaining travelogue that blends the humorous observations of Bill Bryson with the piercing cultural commentary of Jia Tolentino.
Melissa's story is intense and relatable. Her search for validation through her sport and the people around her, and a drive to get ahead and get recognized is often an undercurrent in outdoor adventure stories, but she addresses it head on.
A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain's highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul
At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of Mount Everest, she felt ravaged by defeat. Driven by a relentless, lifelong quest to prove to herself, her family, and the world that she was enough, she had set herself an incredible goal—to become the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. The failure battered her spirit and left her struggling…
Beth tells her side of the story we all knew from several films/books/interviews with other people who had been there. She really dives deep into how the trauma of her kidnapping while on a climbing trip in another country affected her long term. And how sport culture can press people to shrug things off and not process or heal.
Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden's inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing to be held hostage by fear, and taking a leap toward healing.
Beth Rodden is twenty years old and already an elite rock climber when a climbing excursion in Kyrgyzstan escalates into a nightmare. Beth, her boyfriend, and two other climbers are kidnapped by militant rebels. After six harrowing days of hiding, marching, and dodging gunfire, they miraculously escape captivity. But fear follows Beth home, and pushing past it becomes a fixation.
She and her boyfriend, Tommy, train obsessively, achieving rock-climbing greatness and conquering each groundbreaking goal they…
Alone in Wonderland is a memoir about thruhiking the Wonderland Trail around Mt Rainier in Washington. Reed takes the reader along for 11 days on trail, as she questions whether her constant search for independence has served her well in her 20s. Or whether her identity as a solo-female backpacker and vanlifer is stifling her happiness.
