[Truthfairy]

I'd like to find contemporary adventure writers who correspond to Halliburton and Heyerdahl that we could read together.

Try one of Tristan Jones' books.

[Travis McGee]

Another vote for the indominatable Tristan Jones!

And anything about the Great Shackleton.

Another one is Harry Tilman, who served in WW1, walked the Marco Polo route solo in the 20s, did early Himalaya climbing in the 30s, served in WW2, then took up ocean sailing to the Arctic and Antarctic in the 50s.

He bought a series of ancient (cheap) gaff rigged Baltic pilor cutters, and put ads in the Times of London: "Men wanted for arctic sailing expedition. Bad food, danger, no pay, hard work."

Like Shackleton, he lost a boat or two but never lost a man.