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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 182,595 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 116,641 ratings — published 2009
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 594,670 ratings — published 1997
Shadow Divers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.38 — 39,051 ratings — published 2004
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,444 ratings — published 2014
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,230,653 ratings — published 1996
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,479 ratings — published
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 245,775 ratings — published 2023
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,344 ratings — published 2022
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,498 ratings — published 2021
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,463 ratings — published 2017
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,392 ratings — published 2010
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,986 ratings — published 2011
Thinblade (Sovereign of the Seven Isles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,886 ratings — published 2011
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 396 ratings — published 1998
My Life as an Explorer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.03 — 404 ratings — published 1925
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,999 ratings — published 2007
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 83,322 ratings — published 2005
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,158 ratings — published 2000
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,130 ratings — published 2003
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,981 ratings — published 1948
The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,012 ratings — published 1978
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,318 ratings — published 1958
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,134 ratings — published 1938
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.68 — 340,621 ratings — published 1719
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,214 ratings — published 1882
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.92 — 489,913 ratings — published 1903
Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,255 ratings — published 2004
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,212 ratings — published 1988
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,837 ratings — published 1922
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,182 ratings — published 2021
Spandex Optional Bicycle Touring: How to ride long distance, the cheap and easy way (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 111 ratings — published 2014
Le tour du monde à vélo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 44 ratings — published 1995
Home is elsewhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published
Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 620 ratings — published 1997
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,394 ratings — published 2026
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,678 ratings — published 1956
Glitter and Gold (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.92 — 63 ratings — published
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.78 — 462 ratings — published 2015
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.64 — 20,081 ratings — published 1977
The Dark Labyrinth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 813 ratings — published 1947
Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,874 ratings — published 1997
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,578 ratings — published 2022
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 74,027 ratings — published 1998
Maps: Their Untold Stories (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 37 ratings — published 2014
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 22,081 ratings — published 1998
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,942 ratings — published 1951
The Adventurer's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,102 ratings — published 2020
Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,455 ratings — published 2001
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adventure-and-exploration)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,929 ratings — published 2024