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

What makes something an adventure? Does it have to happen far away? Is it always new and big and exciting? Or can you find adventure closer to home, on an ordinary day, surrounded by familiar people ...

John and friends are seen on canyon rim ready to drop into Mid Fork Salmon in the 1970s. (Photo courtesy of John Fraley) John holding a Westslope Cutthroat Trout in 1992. (Photo courtesy of John ...

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 ...

In the corner of a Colorado Springs bookstore, a shelf is waiting to be filled. The store’s owner, Joe Shearer, is steadily adding outdoorsy books. Guidebooks on mountaineering and backpacking and ...