Currently on display in the James B. Duke Library is a selection of fiction and non-fiction adventure books and films. Titles include:
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
- Congo
- Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: A Casebook
- Treasure Island
- True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna
- King Solomon’s Mines
- The Road
- Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, or, The Lad with the Silver Button: The Original Text
- The Island of Second Sight: From the Applied Recollections of Vigoleis
- Into the Wild