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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 161,635 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 109,366 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,836 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,416 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,460 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,349 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,327 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,266 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,246 ratings — published 1919
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 561,883 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,860 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,791 ratings — published 2021
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,555 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,182,265 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 199,970 ratings — published 2023
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,936 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,817 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,590 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,687 ratings — published 1998
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,903 ratings — published 2001
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,531 ratings — published 1979
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,337 ratings — published 2018
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,921 ratings — published 1948
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,671 ratings — published 1987
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,039 ratings — published 2013
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,894 ratings — published 2000
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,735 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,462 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,369 ratings — published 1839
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,701 ratings — published 2019
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,449 ratings — published 2002
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,310 ratings — published 2015
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,814 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 72,668 ratings — published 2007
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,034 ratings — published 2010
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,244 ratings — published
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,393 ratings — published 2008
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,616 ratings — published 2014
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,688 ratings — published 2021
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,996 ratings — published 2011
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,998 ratings — published 2007
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,865 ratings — published 1917
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 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,510 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,073 ratings — published 2000
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 847 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,482 ratings — published 2005
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,360 ratings — published 2017
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,137 ratings — published 2012
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,479 ratings — published 2001
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.89 — 274,579 ratings — published 1869
“Only human after all, she whispered.”
― Steel Blood
― Steel Blood
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
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[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
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