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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through The World's Most Dangerous Country
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3.92 avg rating — 9,405 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.12 avg rating — 13,427 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.13 avg rating — 89,205 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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3.66 avg rating — 2,979 ratings
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Papillon
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4.22 avg rating — 58,699 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.17 avg rating — 54,064 ratings
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West with the Night
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4.13 avg rating — 32,290 ratings
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
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3.85 avg rating — 15,657 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.85 avg rating — 76,957 ratings
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The Travels
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3.58 avg rating — 5,560 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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4.22 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.13 avg rating — 54,723 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.13 avg rating — 19,882 ratings
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The Travelers Within: Into The Unknown
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4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.22 avg rating — 16,483 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.03 avg rating — 6,658 ratings
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Travels With Myself and Another
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3.83 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
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A Time of Gifts
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4.06 avg rating — 6,580 ratings
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
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4.16 avg rating — 571 ratings
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
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3.97 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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The Conquest of New Spain
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4.11 avg rating — 2,600 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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4.05 avg rating — 9,750 ratings
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
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3.81 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
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Seven Years in Tibet
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4.08 avg rating — 19,344 ratings
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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3.52 avg rating — 620 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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3.95 avg rating — 8,180 ratings
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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4.14 avg rating — 28,583 ratings
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,671 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
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4.17 avg rating — 6,395 ratings
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The White Nile
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4.11 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.01 avg rating — 9,157 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.85 avg rating — 38,919 ratings
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
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4.11 avg rating — 4,793 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
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4.09 avg rating — 9,482 ratings
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Discovery Illustrated: Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
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4.02 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
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Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures From Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition
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4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Arabian Sands
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4.17 avg rating — 4,764 ratings
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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3.96 avg rating — 2,411 ratings
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The Innocents Abroad
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3.85 avg rating — 11,819 ratings
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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3.98 avg rating — 1,402 ratings
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Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi
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3.95 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.83 avg rating — 4,259 ratings
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The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
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3.72 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904)
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3.92 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
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3.88 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole
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4.32 avg rating — 2,845 ratings
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Shackleton: The Polar Journeys: The Heart of the Antarctic; The Story of the British Antarctic Exepdition 1907-1909
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4.31 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Measuring the World
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3.74 avg rating — 13,880 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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4.03 avg rating — 635 ratings
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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
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4.13 avg rating — 1,893 ratings
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The Right Stuff
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4.22 avg rating — 46,123 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.38 avg rating — 89,507 ratings
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Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks
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4.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Road to Oxiana
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3.91 avg rating — 2,731 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
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3.77 avg rating — 3,107 ratings
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
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3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
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3.85 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.92 avg rating — 36,288 ratings
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No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Metre Peak
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4.08 avg rating — 8,098 ratings
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The Pale Abyssinian
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4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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3.75 avg rating — 5,518 ratings
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Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain
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3.44 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Campaigns of Alexander
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4.14 avg rating — 4,164 ratings
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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3.91 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Great Hill Stations of Asia
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3.48 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
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4.02 avg rating — 344 ratings
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The Snow Leopard
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4.10 avg rating — 14,152 ratings
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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
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3.47 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
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Seyahatname
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4.14 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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4.17 avg rating — 5,738 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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3.75 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World
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3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Between the Woods and the Water
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4.30 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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3.64 avg rating — 799 ratings
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Cheltenham in Antarctica: The Life of Edward Wilson
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4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
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4.15 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham
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4.15 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.05 avg rating — 74,957 ratings
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Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
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4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Sound of Wings: the Life of Amelia Earhart
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3.80 avg rating — 449 ratings
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An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
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3.59 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cook: The Extraordinary Sea Voyages of Captain James Cook
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3.85 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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3.96 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey
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3.66 avg rating — 222 ratings
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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4.22 avg rating — 5,330 ratings
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
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3.81 avg rating — 9,784 ratings
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20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship
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3.71 avg rating — 139 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
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3.79 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Dog Days On Ice: Antarctic Exploration In A Golden Era
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Marsh Arabs
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4.22 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Edward Wilson’s Antarctic Notebooks
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Travels into the Interior of Africa
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3.86 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Witness to Life and Freedom: Margaret Bourke-White in India and Pakistan
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Visit to Don Otavio
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3.92 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
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4.05 avg rating — 546 ratings
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That's longwinded, but how do we resolve it? I've been voting as if only journals are to be included.