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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 161,632 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 109,363 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,836 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,415 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,458 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,349 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,325 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,264 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,247 ratings — published 1919
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 561,873 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,855 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,791 ratings — published 2021
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 — 16,554 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,182,240 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 199,960 ratings — published 2023
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 — 75,933 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,817 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,590 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,688 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 — 6,903 ratings — published 2001
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,531 ratings — published 1979
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,338 ratings — published 2018
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,921 ratings — published 1948
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,670 ratings — published 1987
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,039 ratings — published 2013
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,895 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 — 4,735 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,462 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,369 ratings — published 1839
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,701 ratings — published 2019
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,449 ratings — published 2002
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,311 ratings — published 2015
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,814 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 72,668 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 — 60,031 ratings — published 2010
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,244 ratings — published
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,393 ratings — published 2008
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,615 ratings — published 2014
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,688 ratings — published 2021
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,996 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 — 12,998 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 — 2,865 ratings — published 1917
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 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,510 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,073 ratings — published 2000
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 847 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 94,480 ratings — published 2005
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,360 ratings — published 2017
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,136 ratings — published 2012
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,479 ratings — published 2001
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.89 — 274,568 ratings — published 1869
“Only human after all, she whispered.”
― Steel Blood
― Steel Blood
“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
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