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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery
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A Man on the Moon
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
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4.39 avg rating — 10,213 ratings
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Paths of Glory
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
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3.71 avg rating — 627 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,098 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 — 109,850 ratings
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Sir Francis Drake
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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4.23 avg rating — 67,545 ratings
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
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4.10 avg rating — 277 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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4.18 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Joseph Banks: A Life
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
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4.21 avg rating — 3,850 ratings
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Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
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4.31 avg rating — 5,180 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethan Age
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4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
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4.19 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold – The True Story of Laing and Clapperton's Legendary 2,000-Mile Saharan Rivalry
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3.84 avg rating — 485 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 — 3,700 ratings
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The White Nile
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4.12 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
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4.11 avg rating — 3,824 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,102 ratings
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