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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 177,907 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 114,960 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,830 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 27,041 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 81,601 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 8,729 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 69,560 ratings — published 1996
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 25,706 ratings — published 2024
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 64,720 ratings — published 2017
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 19,928 ratings — published 2021
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,652 ratings — published 1919
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 587,418 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 — 17,834 ratings — published 2022
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 235,718 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,220,519 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 — 77,822 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,557 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,817 ratings — published 2002
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
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avg rating 4.05 — 7,095 ratings — published 2001
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 21,998 ratings — published 1998
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,425 ratings — published 2018
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 3,630 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 — 5,302 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,955 ratings — published 1987
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 122,651 ratings — published 2000
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,726 ratings — published 1948
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 4,927 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,496 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 8,651 ratings — published 1839
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,000 ratings — published 2015
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,187 ratings — published 2019
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 10,672 ratings — published 2002
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 4,093 ratings — published 2007
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,390 ratings — published
The Terror (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 78,366 ratings — published 2007
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,850 ratings — published 2021
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 13,490 ratings — published 2014
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 61,324 ratings — published 2010
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 9,547 ratings — published 2008
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 13,795 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 283,518 ratings — published 1869
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,110 ratings — published 2011
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,487 ratings — published 2017
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 2,956 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 — 878 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 — 2,645 ratings — published 2016
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,317 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,166 ratings — published 2000
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 3,457 ratings — published 2022
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 97,891 ratings — published 2005
“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“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
