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Explorers


Explorers Books

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Travels
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Worst Journey in the World
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Kon-Tiki
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Lists

Miracle in the Andes by Nando ParradoLost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn FendlerIn the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton SidesThe Last Season by Eric BlehmForever on the Mountain by James M. Tabor
Missing in Nature
40 books — 30 voters
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore CooperThe Indigo Girl by Natasha BoydFollow the River by James Alexander ThomThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Historical Fiction: Colonial America
97 books — 78 voters

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlue Latitudes by Tony HorwitzIn the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton SidesThe Oregon Trail by Rinker BuckDreams of El Dorado by H.W. Brands
Nonfiction Geographical Exploration and Discovery
65 books — 13 voters
The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert WhitakerThe Hitchhiker Man by Matt Fox
Great Explorations
2 books — 2 voters

Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlRoots of To-Be Templars by Widad AkreyiEndurance by Alfred LansingUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
Best Books About Explorers
112 books — 39 voters
Who Was Marco Polo? by Joan HolubWho Were Stanley and Livingstone? by Jim GigliottiWho Was Christopher Columbus? by Bonnie BaderWho Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm JeromeWho Was Neil Armstrong? by Roberta Edwards
Who Was/Is... (Explorers, Travelers, Astronauts and Pilots)
18 books — 1 voter

Quotes Tagged “Explorers”

“ The cliff has an edge so that we know where is the point at which we have to turn back. It's not a signal to explore further. ...more ”
― Jimmy Hurlin
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The danger is going back with this colonial attitude and disseminating information like the Inuit
“ The danger is going back with this colonial attitude and disseminating information like the Inuit don't have history there. ...more ”
― Gayle Kabloona
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Videos Tagged “Explorers”

Walter Raleigh's Quest For the City of Gold
Walter Raleigh's Quest For the City of Gold

Groups Tagged "Explorers"

InkHorns Reading Group InkHorns originally started as a way for a few long distance friends to get together and discus…more
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Historical Non-Fiction So you like true stories of exploration,discovery, battles, the slave trade, pirate trials - wel…more
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