Exploration


Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Worst Journey in the World
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Into the Wild
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Ransom Riggs
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs
...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated. ...more
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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