You will love this book...because I said so! (kidding)
http://www.amazon.ca/Endurance-Shack.../dp/078670621X
There is also a biography on the life of Jack London ( it might just be called 'Jack London') that I cant seem to find from the 60s or so that was very good.
Its hard to believe as you read it that its not fiction, and that someone actually had so many adventures.