In the January 2003 issue, ϳԹ editors announced our picks for the 25 best adventure books of the last 100 years. The arduous selection process required hundreds of hours of reading, conversation, and debate, involving a wide circle of writers, explorers, scholars, and friends. Along the way we suffered our share of panic attacks and shouting matches. Ultimately, though, we assembled a bold, highly subjective shortlist of titles—then perversely decided to make our job even tougher by ranking them from 25th to first.
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Agree with our picks? Think we’re nuts? The forum linked to below, which kicks off with excerpts from e-mail debates that raged between ϳԹ editors and writers as we narrowed down our canon selections, is your chance to get a word in. So go on, hazard a nomination for your favorite adventure book of the last century. But be ready to defend your position—we’re ready to defend ours. —The Editors
Nominate your picks for the best adventure books in the ϳԹ Canon Forum.
Take a look back at the , which appeared in May 1996 and included over 100 classics in outdoor literature.