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Expedition Books
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.46 — 174,608 ratings — published 1959
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.26 — 581,957 ratings — published 1997
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.09 — 77,267 ratings — published 2007
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.80 — 321,741 ratings — published 2014
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,650 ratings — published 1922
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,215 ratings — published 2018
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,096 ratings — published 2017
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,433 ratings — published 2005
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.90 — 113,644 ratings — published 2009
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,563 ratings — published 2000
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,934 ratings — published 1998
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.17 — 227,499 ratings — published 2023
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.78 — 66,583 ratings — published 1936
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,530 ratings — published 2021
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,101 ratings — published 2019
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,211,858 ratings — published 1996
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,056 ratings — published 1996
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,466 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,589 ratings — published 1919
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,058 ratings — published 1912
The Luminous Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.62 — 21,754 ratings — published 2019
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,674,503 ratings — published 2021
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,218 ratings — published 1986
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,493 ratings — published 2016
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.10 — 112,645 ratings — published 2020
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.12 — 188,209 ratings — published 1973
The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,517 ratings — published 2018
The Descent (Descent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,679 ratings — published 1999
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,411 ratings — published 2017
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,616 ratings — published 2016
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,282 ratings — published 2014
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,471 ratings — published 2013
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,245 ratings — published 2013
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,367 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,071 ratings — published 2010
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.23 — 65,999 ratings — published 1988
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,144 ratings — published 2000
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,900 ratings — published 1987
Water Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,599 ratings — published 1981
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 605,886 ratings — published 1990
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.07 — 518,696 ratings — published 2025
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,963 ratings — published 1974
Ascension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.57 — 14,767 ratings — published 2023
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,468 ratings — published
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,717 ratings — published 1907
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,535 ratings — published 2000
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,269 ratings — published 1933
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.75 — 45,309 ratings — published 2023
We Have Always Been Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.51 — 2,815 ratings — published 2021
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.31 — 316,152 ratings — published 2023
“Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.”
― Let Them Paddle: Coming of Age on the Water
― Let Them Paddle: Coming of Age on the Water
“Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.”
― House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
― House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
