Sign in with Facebook
90 books
—
50 voters
Exploration Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,981
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 157,876 ratings — published
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 107,791 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,587 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 24,995 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,318 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,277 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,740 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 61,630 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,136 ratings — published 1919
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 555,105 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,653 ratings — published 2024
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,259 ratings — published 2022
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,253 ratings — published 2021
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,327 ratings — published 1996
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,401 ratings — published 1995
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 190,957 ratings — published 2023
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,515 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,608 ratings — published 1998
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,789 ratings — published 2001
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,700 ratings — published 2011
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,506 ratings — published 1979
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,583 ratings — published 1987
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,713 ratings — published 1948
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,977 ratings — published 2013
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,041 ratings — published 2018
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,732 ratings — published 2000
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,685 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,450 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,314 ratings — published 1839
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,394 ratings — published 2002
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,582 ratings — published 2019
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 71,347 ratings — published 2007
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,814 ratings — published 2015
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,741 ratings — published 2007
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,652 ratings — published 2010
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,204 ratings — published
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,326 ratings — published 2008
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,633 ratings — published 2021
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,430 ratings — published 2014
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,954 ratings — published 2011
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,810 ratings — published 2007
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,848 ratings — published 1917
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.89 — 272,208 ratings — published 1869
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,055 ratings — published 2000
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,642 ratings — published 2005
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,312 ratings — published 2017
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,478 ratings — published 2016
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,446 ratings — published 2001
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 30 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,097 ratings — published 2012
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 824 ratings — published 1998
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
