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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 174,880 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 113,747 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,645 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,736 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,510 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 8,657 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,091 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 64,148 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,592 ratings — published 1919
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 24,234 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,565 ratings — published 2021
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 582,355 ratings — published 1997
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,546 ratings — published 2022
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 228,091 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,212,471 ratings — published 1996
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,474 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,389 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,756 ratings — published 2002
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,228 ratings — published 2018
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,941 ratings — published 1998
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,070 ratings — published 2001
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,612 ratings — published 1979
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,250 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,901 ratings — published 1987
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,566 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 — 4,889 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,644 ratings — published 2000
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,490 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,608 ratings — published 1839
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,630 ratings — published 2015
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,111 ratings — published 2019
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 4,031 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 77,379 ratings — published 2007
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,622 ratings — published 2002
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,831 ratings — published 2021
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,358 ratings — published
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,302 ratings — published 2014
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,105 ratings — published 2010
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 9,506 ratings — published 2008
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 13,622 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 281,751 ratings — published 1869
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 2,075 ratings — published 2011
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,468 ratings — published 2017
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,282 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 4.05 — 2,942 ratings — published 1917
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 866 ratings — published 1998
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,617 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Master (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,147 ratings — published 2000
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,381 ratings — published 2022
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,186 ratings — published 2005
“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“Only human after all, she whispered.”
― Steel Blood
― Steel Blood
