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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 — 112,119 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 170,260 ratings — published 1959
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,305 ratings — published 2003
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,482 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 — 68,416 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 4.30 — 26,271 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 — 22,296 ratings — published 2024
The Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,324 ratings — published 1298
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.21 — 78,988 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,551 ratings — published 1922
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.93 — 63,357 ratings — published 2017
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,584 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,857 ratings — published 1998
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 218,173 ratings — published 2023
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,332 ratings — published 1948
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,306 ratings — published
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 — 17,088 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 4.22 — 4,056 ratings — published 2011
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 — 3,584 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 — 575,119 ratings — published 1997
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,159 ratings — published 2018
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 — 7,020 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 3.81 — 961 ratings — published 2011
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,040 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 — 120,170 ratings — published 2000
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,461 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 — 76,490 ratings — published 1995
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 — 18,886 ratings — published 2021
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,775 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 4.10 — 13,042 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,112 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 — 5,173 ratings — published 2013
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,442 ratings — published 1905
Shackleton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 726 ratings — published 1975
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,526 ratings — published 1839
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,523 ratings — published 2007
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,448 ratings — published 2017
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,662 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 — 2,533 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 — 5,410 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 4.20 — 977 ratings — published 1912
The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.92 — 953 ratings — published 1825
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,827 ratings — published 1987
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,201,984 ratings — published 1996
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,472 ratings — published 2008
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,697 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 — 1,133 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 4.14 — 1,404 ratings — published 2011
Lost City of the Incas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,442 ratings — published 1948
Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.69 — 261 ratings — published 1991
“Messner: – Avvistiamo la base americana sulla costa, la McMurdo. Ce l’abbiamo fatta. … Il primo americano mi chiede se abbiamo realizzato un record. … Il primo giapponese fotografa il mio equipaggiamento. … Il primo italiano mi abbraccia. … Il primo russo vuole bere vodka insieme. … Il primo francese chiede se dei francesi hanno già compiuto quel viaggio prima di noi. … Il primo britannico chiede se abbiamo trainato noi le slitte. … Il primo tedesco che incontro mi chiede: “Perché?” … Non so rispondergli.”
― Messner: La montagna, il vuoto, la fenice
― Messner: La montagna, il vuoto, la fenice
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