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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 180,583 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 115,963 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,004 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,297 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 82,512 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,782 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 — 69,999 ratings — published 1996
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 26,894 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,242 ratings — published 2021
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,162 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,711 ratings — published 1919
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 591,709 ratings — published 1997
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,070 ratings — published 2022
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 241,863 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,226,748 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 — 78,166 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 — 4,665 ratings — published 2011
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,127 ratings — published 2001
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,856 ratings — published 2002
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,602 ratings — published 2018
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 22,040 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 4.35 — 3,645 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 3.87 — 5,336 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,993 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 — 123,462 ratings — published 2000
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,864 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 — 4,952 ratings — published 2011
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,693 ratings — published 1839
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,503 ratings — published 1960
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,312 ratings — published 2015
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,251 ratings — published 2019
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,135 ratings — published 2007
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,700 ratings — published 2002
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,420 ratings — published
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,217 ratings — published 2007
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,865 ratings — published 2021
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,629 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 — 61,505 ratings — published 2010
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,569 ratings — published 2008
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,900 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 285,085 ratings — published 1869
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,129 ratings — published 2011
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,515 ratings — published 2017
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 — 2,969 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 — 881 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)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,671 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 — 2,341 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,177 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 — 3,543 ratings — published 2022
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,483 ratings — published 2005
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
