Explorers


The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Travels
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Worst Journey in the World
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Winging It  by Lia RussMaiden Voyages by Siân EvansFull Tilt by Dervla MurphyShutterbabe by Deborah Copaken KoganNo Place for a Lady by Barbara Hodgson
Lady Explorers & Adventurers
32 books — 20 voters
Blood and Thunder by Hampton SidesEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Last Gunfight by Jeff GuinnLasso the Wind by Timothy Egan
Great books about the Old West
289 books — 40 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
698 books — 173 voters
Miracle in the Andes by Nando ParradoLost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn FendlerIn the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton SidesThe Last Season by Eric BlehmForever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor
Missing in Nature
43 books — 31 voters


These stories fed her dreams.
Maria Kuzniar, The Ship of Shadows

Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he writes: Dear diary...I means journal. Yes, dear journal. That's what I meant to say. Whew. Anyway, we have yet to discover America, and the crew has become increasingly rebellious. I have decided to turn back if we have not spotted it by Columbus Day. Will write again later if not killed by crew ...more
Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

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