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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 174,896 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 — 113,751 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 — 80,515 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as exploration)
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 — 69,095 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,150 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 — 24,244 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 — 19,569 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 — 582,381 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 — 228,132 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,212,505 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 — 77,476 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 — 3,902 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 — 121,645 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 — 30,631 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)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,031 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 77,385 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)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
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 — 13,304 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)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,506 ratings — published 2008
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,623 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,761 ratings — published 1869
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
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)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
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)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,617 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,148 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 — 3,382 ratings — published 2022
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,190 ratings — published 2005
“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
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
