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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 183,181 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 116,843 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,171 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,500 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 83,537 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,843 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 70,427 ratings — published 1996
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 27,975 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,568 ratings — published 2021
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 92 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,540 ratings — published 2017
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 595,531 ratings — published 1997
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,759 ratings — published 1919
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,388 ratings — published 2022
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 246,801 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,231,904 ratings — published 1996
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,565 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,804 ratings — published 2011
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 60 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,164 ratings — published 2001
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,781 ratings — published 2018
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,889 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 22,096 ratings — published 1998
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,658 ratings — published 1979
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,380 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,022 ratings — published 1987
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,355 ratings — published 2000
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,995 ratings — published 1948
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,987 ratings — published 2011
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,303 ratings — published 2019
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,724 ratings — published 1839
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,506 ratings — published 1960
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,669 ratings — published 2015
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,187 ratings — published 2007
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,733 ratings — published 2002
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,440 ratings — published
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 80,306 ratings — published 2007
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,880 ratings — published 2021
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,794 ratings — published 2014
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,586 ratings — published 2008
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,649 ratings — published 2010
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,029 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 286,512 ratings — published 1869
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,148 ratings — published 2011
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,595 ratings — published 2022
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,537 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 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,690 ratings — published 2016
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,359 ratings — published 2012
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,983 ratings — published 1917
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 887 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 99,504 ratings — published 2005
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,192 ratings — published 2000
“She said, “My people of Oxford, you are suffering from the administration of Hugh le Despencer the Elder and his son called Hugh le Despencer the Younger! I have issued warrants for their arrest and bringing to trial for crimes of High Treason against both men and their partner in crime called Edmund Fitzalan! I urge all of you to inform my soldiers of the where-abouts of these men!”
― Isabella Warrior Queen
― Isabella Warrior Queen
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
