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Expedition Books
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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 — 555,265 ratings — published 1997
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.46 — 157,977 ratings — published 1959
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.79 — 286,874 ratings — published 2014
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.09 — 71,382 ratings — published 2007
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.93 — 61,650 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 — 107,842 ratings — published 2009
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,337 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 — 116,763 ratings — published 2000
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,279 ratings — published 1922
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,610 ratings — published 1998
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.50 — 935,045 ratings — published 2021
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,584 ratings — published 2019
The Anomaly (The Anomaly Files, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,046 ratings — published 2018
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,610 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 — 66,758 ratings — published 1996
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.93 — 71,608 ratings — published 1912
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.17 — 191,214 ratings — published 2023
At the Mountains of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.79 — 61,880 ratings — published 1931
The Luminous Dead (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.63 — 19,404 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 — 16,263 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 — 17,262 ratings — published 2021
Ararat (Ben Walker, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.42 — 9,962 ratings — published 2017
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.69 — 64,220 ratings — published 2006
The Descent (Descent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,101 ratings — published 1999
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,310 ratings — published 2017
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,315 ratings — published 2017
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 — 12,439 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 — 12,218 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 3.87 — 4,981 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 — 3,703 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 — 63,480 ratings — published 1988
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,056 ratings — published 2000
Water Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,404 ratings — published 1981
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.19 — 580,178 ratings — published 1990
Wild Dark Shore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.16 — 154,617 ratings — published 2025
Ascension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.58 — 13,055 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 4.11 — 1,426 ratings — published
The Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,339 ratings — published 1907
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,290 ratings — published 2000
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,204 ratings — published 1933
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.75 — 41,456 ratings — published 2023
We Have Always Been Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.51 — 2,665 ratings — published 2021
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.33 — 257,443 ratings — published 2023
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.73 — 117,423 ratings — published 2022
Fairy Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.09 — 325,351 ratings — published 2022
Walking to Aldebaran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,764 ratings — published 2019
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,111 ratings — published 2021
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,464,856 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 — 86,299 ratings — published 2015
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as expedition)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,048 ratings — published 2018
“We go and do the things that you're calling exploring and adventuring ... and [for us] it's just regular life.”
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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
