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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 166,577 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 — 110,961 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,100 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,885 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 77,831 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,459 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,942 ratings — published 1996
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,371 ratings — published 1919
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,901 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 — 569,977 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 20,919 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,415 ratings — published 2021
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,843 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,194,978 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 210,889 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 — 76,471 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 — 3,929 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,652 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,783 ratings — published 1998
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,607 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 — 3,567 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 4.04 — 6,976 ratings — published 2001
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,753 ratings — published 1987
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,142 ratings — published 1948
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,118 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 — 119,197 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 — 4,784 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,475 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,463 ratings — published 1839
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,851 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 — 3,875 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 74,251 ratings — published 2007
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,524 ratings — published 2002
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,791 ratings — published 2015
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,433 ratings — published 2010
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,278 ratings — published
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,749 ratings — published 2021
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,432 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 — 12,861 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 — 13,214 ratings — published 2007
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,017 ratings — published 2011
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 277,111 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 — 2,900 ratings — published 1917
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,412 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 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,541 ratings — published 2016
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,195 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,104 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 — 852 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,441 ratings — published 2005
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,509 ratings — published 2001
“The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
