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If you had to make a list of the top twenty-five adventure books of all time, which would you choose? You’d probably include Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, perhaps his Into the Wild as well. Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm would probably make this list as well, if only because these books are part of the current zeitgeist, but you know they will remains classics of the genre.  

Then reaching back, you’d probably add F.A. Worsley’s Endurance, and Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia (which I read while in Patagonia and thought it one of the best book’s I’d ever read. Period.). Perhaps then Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World and Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard. These are all books that come to mind (among numerous others) and all of them make Outside Magazine’s 25 best adventure books of all time.

But would Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand And Stars be on your list? I wouldn’t have included it, but that’s only because I’ve never read it. But now that it actually tops Outside’s list, I’m going to have to reconsider and read the damn thing. Anyway, take a look at the Outside list and check off the ones you’ve read. We welcome comments here on any books you think are missing, and those on the list you’ve enjoyed.

Here is a series of truly amazing photos taken by various photographers as part of National Wildlife Magazine’s thirty-fourth annual photography competition. One after another these photos are superb, and convey the mysteries and magnificence of nature in a way rarely captured on film.