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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 — 13,423 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 — 54,012 ratings
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
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4.16 avg rating — 570 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 — 76,850 ratings
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The White Nile
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4.11 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
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3.95 avg rating — 8,181 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.13 avg rating — 19,874 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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The Travels
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3.58 avg rating — 5,560 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.38 avg rating — 89,357 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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3.98 avg rating — 102,321 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.03 avg rating — 6,653 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 Journals
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3.90 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctica 1910-1913. Complete, Unabridged & Illustrated. Volumes 1 & 2.
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4.17 avg rating — 6,390 ratings
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The Blue Nile
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4.17 avg rating — 728 ratings
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The Birthday Boys
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3.94 avg rating — 983 ratings
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Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
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4.15 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
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4.13 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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3.96 avg rating — 4,472 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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4.07 avg rating — 3,396 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 — 4,253 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 Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
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3.96 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Pale Abyssinian
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4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
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3.75 avg rating — 355 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 — 634 ratings
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This Thing of Darkness
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4.50 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
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White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
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4.07 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,683 ratings
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The Aviator's Wife
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3.90 avg rating — 67,703 ratings
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The Conquest of New Spain
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4.11 avg rating — 2,599 ratings
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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3.91 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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Baudolino
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3.75 avg rating — 20,254 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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3.96 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia
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4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
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3.66 avg rating — 2,497 ratings
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Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
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3.96 avg rating — 426 ratings
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History of the Conquest of Peru
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3.99 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
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4.30 avg rating — 852 ratings
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives
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3.46 avg rating — 648 ratings
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France and England in North America, Volume 1
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4.25 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Measuring the World
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3.74 avg rating — 13,870 ratings
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Scott and Amundsen
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4.32 avg rating — 2,844 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
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4.09 avg rating — 9,477 ratings
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West With The Night
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4.13 avg rating — 32,222 ratings
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The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
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3.85 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Shackleton
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4.34 avg rating — 629 ratings
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Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
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4.13 avg rating — 834 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 — 89,137 ratings
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Lewis and Clark
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3.55 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Egyptian Diaries
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3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and Its Tributaries
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3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.01 avg rating — 9,156 ratings
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The Piri Reis Map of 1513
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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3.60 avg rating — 13,428 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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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
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4.01 avg rating — 8,399 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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3.93 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
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3.30 avg rating — 128 ratings
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In Siberia
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3.97 avg rating — 2,467 ratings
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The Frozen Deep
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3.47 avg rating — 692 ratings
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The Life of Gordon, Major-General, R. E., C. B: Turkish field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
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4.16 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
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4.04 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
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4.26 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
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3.86 avg rating — 241 ratings
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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
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4.35 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Across the Wide Missouri
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4.17 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
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3.98 avg rating — 847 ratings
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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 43,698 ratings
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Ansichten der Natur
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3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
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3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Time of Gifts
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4.06 avg rating — 6,580 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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Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years, 1842-45, During the Mission Sent Out by His Majesty Fredrick William IV. of Prussia
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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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 Gold of Troy
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3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy
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4.13 avg rating — 587 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 — 5,669 ratings
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Captain Cook: The Seaman's Seaman - A study of the great discoverer [Classic Biography]
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3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation
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3.95 avg rating — 423 ratings
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30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot
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4.40 avg rating — 57 ratings
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A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire
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3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
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3.65 avg rating — 1,423 ratings
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Berserk: My Voyage to the Antarctic in a Twenty-Seven-Foot Sailboat
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4.19 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Museum of Human Beings
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3.11 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
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4.09 avg rating — 5,722 ratings
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
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4.44 avg rating — 912 ratings
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
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4.12 avg rating — 512 ratings
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With Scott Before the Mast: These are the Journals of Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN when on board Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers
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4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration
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4.27 avg rating — 272 ratings
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With Scott Before the Mast Special Limited Edition
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Giovanni Belzoni: Strong Man, Egyptologist
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.19 avg rating — 826 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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To the Edge of the World: Book I
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4.35 avg rating — 51 ratings
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.33 avg rating — 19,342 ratings
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