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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 — 19,383 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 — 112,514 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 — 68,558 ratings
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
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4.13 avg rating — 837 ratings
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The White Nile
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4.12 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.16 avg rating — 25,375 ratings
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The Travels
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3.57 avg rating — 8,365 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 171,360 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
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3.97 avg rating — 9,465 ratings
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
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4.12 avg rating — 5,445 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 122,985 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,549 ratings
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The Journals
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3.92 avg rating — 953 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctica 1910-1913. Complete, Unabridged & Illustrated. Volumes 1 & 2.
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4.19 avg rating — 8,579 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 — 5,446 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 Blue Nile
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4.16 avg rating — 903 ratings
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Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
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4.08 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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3.95 avg rating — 5,419 ratings
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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3.90 avg rating — 2,835 ratings
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
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3.93 avg rating — 2,200 ratings
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Measuring the World
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3.73 avg rating — 22,870 ratings
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The Birthday Boys
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3.93 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
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4.15 avg rating — 1,920 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 — 120,527 ratings
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West With The Night
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4.16 avg rating — 41,475 ratings
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This Thing of Darkness
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4.52 avg rating — 3,497 ratings
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
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4.02 avg rating — 2,790 ratings
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The Conquest of New Spain
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4.14 avg rating — 3,723 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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4.04 avg rating — 4,273 ratings
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Baudolino
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3.80 avg rating — 25,585 ratings
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The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
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3.94 avg rating — 462 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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Francis Parkman: France and England in North America, Volume 1
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4.25 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
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3.90 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
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3.83 avg rating — 512 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 — 971 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
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White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
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4.27 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Aviator's Wife
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3.91 avg rating — 77,079 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.05 avg rating — 10,590 ratings
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
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4.15 avg rating — 7,705 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,734 ratings
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
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3.87 avg rating — 981 ratings
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
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3.39 avg rating — 213 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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Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia
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4.24 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
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3.68 avg rating — 3,146 ratings
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Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
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4.05 avg rating — 625 ratings
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History of the Conquest of Peru
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
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4.28 avg rating — 969 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 — 857 ratings
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Scott and Amundsen
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4.36 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
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4.14 avg rating — 12,808 ratings
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
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4.05 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Shackleton
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4.35 avg rating — 729 ratings
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Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
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4.16 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 53,088 ratings
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Travels into the Interior of Africa
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3.90 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Lewis and Clark
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3.57 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Egyptian Diaries
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3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and its Tributaries
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Piri Reis Map of 1513
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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3.61 avg rating — 15,274 ratings
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Brazilian Adventure
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3.86 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
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4.17 avg rating — 738 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 Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.34 avg rating — 21,873 ratings
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
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4.12 avg rating — 10,253 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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3.91 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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In Siberia
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3.97 avg rating — 2,961 ratings
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The Frozen Deep
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3.54 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
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The Life of Gordon, Major-General, R. E., C. B: Turkish field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Last Hours on Everest
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3.77 avg rating — 435 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
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4.14 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
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4.09 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West
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4.25 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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The Tutankhamun Deception: The True Story of the Mummy's Curse
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3.33 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 75,962 ratings
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Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
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3.86 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life
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3.80 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
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4.37 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Across The Wide Missouri
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4.09 avg rating — 503 ratings
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
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4.09 avg rating — 1,287 ratings
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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
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4.02 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Shackleton: The Polar Journeys
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4.17 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Ansichten der Natur
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3.77 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
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3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 9,912 ratings
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Seven Years In Tibet
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4.10 avg rating — 26,887 ratings
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My Life as an Explorer
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4.03 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The Oregon Trail
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3.57 avg rating — 3,736 ratings
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Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years, 1842-45, During the Mission Sent Out by His Majesty Fredrick William IV. of Prussia
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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 Gold of Troy
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3.90 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy
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4.19 avg rating — 862 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 — 7,031 ratings
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Captain Cook : The Seaman's Seaman
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3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation
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3.98 avg rating — 989 ratings
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