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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
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3.98 avg rating — 12,200 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.19 avg rating — 19,436 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 120,730 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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3.81 avg rating — 4,116 ratings
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Papillon
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4.23 avg rating — 76,594 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 68,666 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 79,606 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 112,764 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.16 avg rating — 25,406 ratings
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West with the Night
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4.16 avg rating — 41,546 ratings
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The Travels
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3.57 avg rating — 8,394 ratings
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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4.21 avg rating — 2,723 ratings
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
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3.84 avg rating — 21,550 ratings
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
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4.11 avg rating — 3,970 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 22,205 ratings
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The Travelers Within: Into The Unknown
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3.98 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,562 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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3.97 avg rating — 9,472 ratings
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Seven Years in Tibet
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4.10 avg rating — 26,923 ratings
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The Conquest of New Spain
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4.14 avg rating — 3,732 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 12,395 ratings
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Travels with Myself and Another
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3.84 avg rating — 2,357 ratings
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A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 9,934 ratings
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
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4.14 avg rating — 840 ratings
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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3.58 avg rating — 897 ratings
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
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4.12 avg rating — 5,450 ratings
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The White Nile
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4.12 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
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4.22 avg rating — 4,183 ratings
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
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3.85 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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3.97 avg rating — 3,854 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
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4.19 avg rating — 8,594 ratings
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Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
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3.94 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.05 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole
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4.35 avg rating — 3,596 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,615 ratings
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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3.94 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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Arabian Sands
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4.19 avg rating — 6,136 ratings
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
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4.02 avg rating — 1,548 ratings
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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3.98 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,453 ratings
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
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3.93 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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4.05 avg rating — 7,041 ratings
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Discovery Illustrated: Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures From Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition
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4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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4.03 avg rating — 972 ratings
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Between the Woods and the Water (Trilogy, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 3,768 ratings
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The Right Stuff
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4.23 avg rating — 56,176 ratings
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The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
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3.84 avg rating — 15,025 ratings
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The Snow Leopard
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4.06 avg rating — 21,030 ratings
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Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
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3.97 avg rating — 830 ratings
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The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
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3.67 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Campaigns of Alexander
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4.17 avg rating — 5,430 ratings
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Annapurna
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4.09 avg rating — 10,694 ratings
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The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904)
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3.86 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 172,037 ratings
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Shackleton: The Polar Journeys
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4.17 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Measuring the World
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3.73 avg rating — 22,925 ratings
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Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks
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4.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
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4.20 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Road to Oxiana
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3.90 avg rating — 3,443 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
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3.78 avg rating — 4,414 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 109,367 ratings
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
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3.84 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
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3.82 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
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Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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4.22 avg rating — 11,805 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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3.72 avg rating — 4,444 ratings
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Out of Africa
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3.91 avg rating — 48,724 ratings
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No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce
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4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
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3.86 avg rating — 13,802 ratings
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Travels into the Interior of Africa
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3.90 avg rating — 724 ratings
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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3.81 avg rating — 6,185 ratings
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Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain
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3.36 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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3.90 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
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3.66 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
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3.68 avg rating — 3,148 ratings
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The Journals
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3.92 avg rating — 954 ratings
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives
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3.46 avg rating — 859 ratings
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Letters from Mexico
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3.67 avg rating — 771 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Great Hill Stations of Asia
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3.49 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Francis Parkman: France and England in North America, Volume 1
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4.25 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
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4.06 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Seyahatname
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4.17 avg rating — 145 ratings
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American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking The World
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3.78 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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3.64 avg rating — 1,634 ratings
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Cheltenham in Antarctica: The Life of Edward Wilson
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4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham
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4.15 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
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4.06 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Sound of Wings: the Life of Amelia Earhart
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3.81 avg rating — 535 ratings
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Along the Enchanted Way: A Story of Love and Life in Romania
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4.17 avg rating — 932 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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3.91 avg rating — 2,063 ratings
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An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
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3.60 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Indian Peter: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
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4.32 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
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3.89 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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3.96 avg rating — 1,773 ratings
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
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4.21 avg rating — 9,098 ratings
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20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship
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3.76 avg rating — 201 ratings
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That's longwinded, but how do we resolve it? I've been voting as if only journals are to be included.