Exploration


Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Worst Journey in the World
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Into the Wild
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLost Horizon by James HiltonKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
TREKKING THE 'STANS
85 books — 59 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Vicarious Thrills
393 books — 421 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonRed Rising by Pierce BrownThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Mars Colonist's Reading List
165 books — 132 voters
Joy & Sorrow by Peter Sean DalyThe Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterThe Great Weather Diviner by Rob      Long
All Creatures Great and Small
1,366 books — 213 voters

Carl Sagan
The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will lov ...more
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Roman Payne
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.
Roman Payne

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