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Polar Exploration Books
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 160,003 ratings — published 1959
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,323 ratings — published 1922
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,556 ratings — published 2021
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,257 ratings — published 2014
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,640 ratings — published 1987
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,643 ratings — published 2019
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,520 ratings — published 1979
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,020 ratings — published 2013
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,199 ratings — published 1919
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,958 ratings — published 2006
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 72,088 ratings — published 2007
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,871 ratings — published 1913
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,947 ratings — published 2022
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,343 ratings — published 2017
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,066 ratings — published 2000
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 27 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,116 ratings — published 2012
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 930 ratings — published 2001
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,666 ratings — published 2021
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,217 ratings — published 2018
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 22 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,434 ratings — published
Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,305 ratings — published 2001
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,036 ratings — published 2010
Captain Scott (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,442 ratings — published 2004
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,858 ratings — published 1917
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,664 ratings — published 2003
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,729 ratings — published 1977
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 339 ratings — published 1997
South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 932 ratings — published 1912
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 842 ratings — published 1998
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,390 ratings — published 2018
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,209 ratings — published 1933
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 345 ratings — published 2001
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,652 ratings — published 1998
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,891 ratings — published 1931
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,327 ratings — published 2000
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,207 ratings — published 2022
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,016 ratings — published 2012
The Home Of The Blizzard: A True Story Of Antarctic Survival (abridged edition)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 464 ratings — published 1915
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 130 ratings — published 1991
Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 784 ratings — published 2000
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.37 — 759 ratings — published 1988
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.66 — 109 ratings — published
A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.98 — 373 ratings — published 2016
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.59 — 391 ratings — published 2011
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 214 ratings — published 1996
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,224 ratings — published 2001
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,453 ratings — published 2017
James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 188 ratings — published 2010
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 601 ratings — published 2006
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,216 ratings — published 2023
“The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.”
― Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
― Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
“Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.”
― Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
― Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
