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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
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The Travels
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Worst Journey in the World
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Kon-Tiki
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelBorn Free by Joy AdamsonA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
539 books — 182 voters
Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerBellwether by Connie WillisMigrations by Charlotte McConaghyProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Scientist Fiction
21 books — 9 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
687 books — 156 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
39 books — 29 voters

by Farrell, Alison  by Alison FarrellWhen the Squirrel Sings by Shana HollowellDig Hole, Soft Mole by Carolyn LesserLook What I Found in the Woods by Moira ButterfieldMy Mindful Walk with Grandma by Sheri Mabry
Best Nature Books Age 0-5
9 books — 3 voters
Blood and Thunder by Hampton SidesThe Captured by Scott ZeschJohn Ringo by Jack BurrowsAnd Die in the West by Paula Mitchell MarksBoots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Favourite Old West History Reads
256 books — 9 voters

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