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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.90 — 114,200 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 175,931 ratings — published 1959
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,703 ratings — published 2003
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,275 ratings — published 1996
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,615 ratings — published 1919
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,852 ratings — published 2014
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 24,729 ratings — published 2024
The Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,497 ratings — published 1298
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,911 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,678 ratings — published 1922
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,357 ratings — published 2017
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,367 ratings — published
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,643 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,958 ratings — published 1998
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 230,562 ratings — published 2023
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,455 ratings — published 2011
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,609 ratings — published 1948
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,633 ratings — published 2022
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,617 ratings — published 1979
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.26 — 584,191 ratings — published 1997
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,537 ratings — published 2018
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,986 ratings — published 2000
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,083 ratings — published 2001
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.82 — 971 ratings — published 2011
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,692 ratings — published 2021
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,364 ratings — published 2014
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,085 ratings — published 2011
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,522 ratings — published 2008
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,607 ratings — published 1995
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,836 ratings — published 2021
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,757 ratings — published 2015
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,270 ratings — published 2013
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,462 ratings — published 1905
Shackleton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 734 ratings — published 1975
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,619 ratings — published 1839
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 77,782 ratings — published 2007
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,472 ratings — published 2017
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,906 ratings — published 2015
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,576 ratings — published 2001
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,461 ratings — published 2003
South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 996 ratings — published 1912
The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.92 — 957 ratings — published 1825
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,925 ratings — published 1987
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,739 ratings — published 2004
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,750 ratings — published 2008
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,779 ratings — published 2002
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,139 ratings — published 1990
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,411 ratings — published 2022
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations – A Radical Reinterpretation of the Struggle Between Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,437 ratings — published 2011
Lost City of the Incas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,483 ratings — published 1948
“Death had always stalked the explorers, but in an age that held life cheap the risk had been worth the reward. Men who lived in hope of heaven and fear of hell had been eager to serve as Crusaders; men born into poverty had hungered to touch the wealth of the East. Yet the wealth had stuck to the fingers of the elite, and faith had proved a poor defense against disease, famine, and storms.”
― Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations – A Radical Reinterpretation of the Struggle Between Christianity and Islam
― Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations – A Radical Reinterpretation of the Struggle Between Christianity and Islam
“Juet's journal frequently records how only a tiny quantity of alcohol was needed to get the Indians drunk, 'for they could not take it'; and tales of the drunkenness that greeted Hudsons' arrival persisted among the native Indians until the last century. Indeed Heckewelder claims that the name Manhattan is derived from the drunkenness that took place there, since the Indian word 'manahactanienk' means 'the island of general intoxication'.”
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
