Explorers


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 Travels
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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
Kon-Tiki
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Blood and Thunder by Hampton SidesThe Captured by Scott ZeschJohn Ringo by Jack BurrowsAnd Die in the West by Paula Mitchell MarksBoots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Favourite Old West History Reads
256 books — 9 voters
Winging It  by Lia RussOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMaiden Voyages by Siân EvansFull Tilt by Dervla MurphyShutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Lady Explorers & Adventurers
32 books — 22 voters

by Farrell, Alison  by Alison FarrellWhen the Squirrel Sings by Shana HollowellDig Hole, Soft Mole by Carolyn LesserLook What I Found in the Woods by Moira ButterfieldMy Mindful Walk with Grandma by Sheri Mabry
Best Nature Books Age 0-5
9 books — 3 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

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence BergreenThe Lost City of Z by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard CarterThe White Nile by Alan Moorehead
The Great Explorers
245 books — 92 voters

Graham Hancock
My broad conclusion is that an advanced global seafaring civilization existed during the Ice Age, that it mapped the earth as it looked then with stunning accuracy, and that it had solved the problem of longitude, which our own civilization failed to do until the invention of Harrison's marine chronometer in the late eighteenth century. As masters of celestial navigation, as explorers, as geographers, and as cartographers, therefore, this lost civilization of 12,800 years ago was not outstripped ...more
Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Ashley Shelby
My father's a frustrated explorer, so I'm on a first-name basis with a lot of dead men." "Yes, there's a whole generation of those kind of fathers, isn't there? Men cut out for Shackleton's adventures but forced to work as accountants or teachers...It's a bloody shame, actually. There's nothing left for them. ...more
Ashley Shelby, South Pole Station

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