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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 — 157,933 ratings — published
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,277 ratings — published 1922
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,256 ratings — published 2021
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,003 ratings — published 2014
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,585 ratings — published 1987
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,584 ratings — published 2019
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,506 ratings — published 1979
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,979 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 — 11,137 ratings — published 1919
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,948 ratings — published 2006
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 71,368 ratings — published 2007
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,867 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 — 2,872 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 — 2,314 ratings — published 2017
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,056 ratings — published 2000
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 26 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,099 ratings — published 2012
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,634 ratings — published 2021
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,042 ratings — published 2018
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 918 ratings — published 2001
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 4.11 — 1,426 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 — 1,276 ratings — published 2001
Captain Scott (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,435 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 — 2,848 ratings — published 1917
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,034 ratings — published 2010
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,637 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 — 1,720 ratings — published 1977
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 — 924 ratings — published 1912
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 339 ratings — published 1997
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 — 824 ratings — published 1998
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,220 ratings — published 2018
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,204 ratings — published 1933
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,609 ratings — published 1998
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 343 ratings — published 2001
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,860 ratings — published 1931
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,177 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 — 1,013 ratings — published 2012
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 127 ratings — published 1991
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 — 756 ratings — published 1988
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,290 ratings — published 2000
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 — 108 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 — 371 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 3.60 — 387 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
The Home Of The Blizzard: A True Story Of Antarctic Survival (abridged edition)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 462 ratings — published 1915
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,225 ratings — published 2001
Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 779 ratings — published 2000
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 — 1,417 ratings — published 2017
James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 185 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 — 597 ratings — published 2006
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 387 ratings — published 2005
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”
― The Worst Journey in the World
― The Worst Journey in the World
“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
