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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 — 109,882 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,187 ratings — published 1959
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,929 ratings — published 2003
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,283 ratings — published 1919
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,553 ratings — published 1996
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,558 ratings — published 2014
The Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,141 ratings — published 1298
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,869 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,388 ratings — published 1922
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,465 ratings — published 2017
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,470 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,729 ratings — published 1998
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 19,551 ratings — published 2024
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,000 ratings — published 1948
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,254 ratings — published
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,276 ratings — published 2023
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 3.84 — 16,643 ratings — published 2022
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,852 ratings — published 2011
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,659 ratings — published 2018
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,544 ratings — published 1979
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.26 — 564,382 ratings — published 1997
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.82 — 950 ratings — published 2011
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,001 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,286 ratings — published 2000
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,403 ratings — published 2008
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,925 ratings — published 2001
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,996 ratings — published 2021
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,712 ratings — published 2021
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,685 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,500 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 — 5,064 ratings — published 2013
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,402 ratings — published 1905
Shackleton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.34 — 722 ratings — published 1975
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,407 ratings — published 1839
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,176 ratings — published 2007
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,114 ratings — published 1995
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,371 ratings — published 2017
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,500 ratings — published 2015
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,495 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 — 5,345 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 — 947 ratings — published 1912
The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.92 — 933 ratings — published 1825
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,697 ratings — published 1987
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,183 ratings — published 2008
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,609 ratings — published 2002
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,826 ratings — published 2007
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 — 1,122 ratings — published 1990
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 4.13 — 1,371 ratings — published 2011
Lost City of the Incas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,414 ratings — published 1948
Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.69 — 259 ratings — published 1991
“Kali was extremely lucky to have lived as long as she did. Most octopuses die as paralarvae. Only two in 100,000 hatchlings survive to sexual maturity-otherwise the sea would be overrun with octopuses. "And at least we know she had a good last day, " I said. "Yes," said Wilson. "She had a day of freedom. And that she got out tells you a phenomenally inquisitive and intelligent creature wanted her freedom. We know, clearly, it must have taken a lot of effort to get out. A stupid animal wouldn't do that."
"She died like a great explorer," I said. Like the astronauts who died blasting off in Challenger, or the brave men who perished in attempts to find the source of the Nile, penetrate the Amazon, visit the poles, Kali had chosen to face unknown dangers in the quest to widen the horizons of her world.”
― The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
"She died like a great explorer," I said. Like the astronauts who died blasting off in Challenger, or the brave men who perished in attempts to find the source of the Nile, penetrate the Amazon, visit the poles, Kali had chosen to face unknown dangers in the quest to widen the horizons of her world.”
― The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
“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
