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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 169,772 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 111,945 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,271 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,224 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 78,831 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,538 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 68,354 ratings — published 1996
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,459 ratings — published 1919
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 63,284 ratings — published 2017
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 574,442 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,128 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,824 ratings — published 2021
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,051 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,200,950 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 217,190 ratings — published 2023
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,441 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 4.22 — 4,043 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,686 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,848 ratings — published 1998
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,810 ratings — published 2018
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,582 ratings — published 1979
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 4.05 — 7,017 ratings — published 2001
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,166 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,816 ratings — published 1987
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,304 ratings — published 1948
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,817 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,995 ratings — published 2000
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,479 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,516 ratings — published 1839
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,939 ratings — published 2019
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,925 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 75,337 ratings — published 2007
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,769 ratings — published 2021
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 30,064 ratings — published 2015
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,304 ratings — published
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 10,579 ratings — published 2002
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,634 ratings — published 2010
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 9,458 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 4.10 — 13,013 ratings — published 2014
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,363 ratings — published 2007
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,038 ratings — published 2011
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,446 ratings — published 2017
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 278,913 ratings — published 1869
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 — 2,914 ratings — published 1917
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,228 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,121 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 — 860 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 95,959 ratings — published 2005
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 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,575 ratings — published 2016
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,531 ratings — published 2001
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
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“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
