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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.26 — 558,905 ratings — published 1997
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.46 — 159,940 ratings — published 1959
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.79 — 291,544 ratings — published 2014
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.09 — 72,066 ratings — published 2007
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,019 ratings — published 2017
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.90 — 108,730 ratings — published 2009
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,922 ratings — published 2005
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,412 ratings — published 2000
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,323 ratings — published 1922
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,650 ratings — published 1998
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.79 — 62,606 ratings — published 1936
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.50 — 988,289 ratings — published 2021
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,642 ratings — published 2019
The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,121 ratings — published 2018
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,178,055 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 — 67,058 ratings — published 1996
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.93 — 71,918 ratings — published 1912
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.17 — 196,243 ratings — published 2023
The Luminous Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.63 — 19,789 ratings — published 2019
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,438 ratings — published 2022
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,552 ratings — published 2021
Ararat (Ben Walker, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.42 — 10,135 ratings — published 2017
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.69 — 65,193 ratings — published 2006
The Descent (Descent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,213 ratings — published 1999
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.94 — 44,081 ratings — published 2017
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,343 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,198 ratings — published 1919
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 4.09 — 12,541 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 — 12,250 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 — 5,020 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 4.21 — 3,768 ratings — published 2011
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.23 — 63,844 ratings — published 1988
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,066 ratings — published 2000
Water Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,437 ratings — published 1981
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 584,020 ratings — published 1990
Wild Dark Shore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.14 — 191,352 ratings — published 2025
Ascension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.58 — 13,351 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 — 1,434 ratings — published
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,757 ratings — published 1907
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,327 ratings — published 2000
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,209 ratings — published 1933
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.75 — 42,040 ratings — published 2023
We Have Always Been Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.51 — 2,681 ratings — published 2021
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.33 — 265,905 ratings — published 2023
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.72 — 120,965 ratings — published 2022
Fairy Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.09 — 329,549 ratings — published 2022
Walking to Aldebaran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,857 ratings — published 2019
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,327 ratings — published 2021
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,493,866 ratings — published 1988
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,155 ratings — published 2015
“Slig jubel og henrykkelse har Kristiania vel aldrig før været i, som da Grønlandsfarerne kom tilbage. Sexti Tusing Mennesker modtog dem på Bryggen, femti Tusind fulgte dem til hotellet, ti Tusind raabte niti Tusind hurra, en gammel pensjoneret Oberst fra Kampen skreg sig simpelthen ihjel på Stedet.”
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“...she offered an assortment of reasons about why she was walking. The kids were finally out of the house. She heard that no woman had yet thru-hiked in one direction. She liked nature. She thought it would be a lark. I want to see what’s on the other side of the hill, then what’s beyond that, she told a reported in Ohio. Any one of the answers could stand on its own, but viewed collectively, the diversity of responses left her motivation open to interpretation, as though she wanted people to seek out their own conclusions, if there were any to be made. Maybe each answer was honest. Maybe she was trying to articulate that exploring the world was a good way to explore her own mind.”
― Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
― Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
