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Arctic Exploration Books
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,259 ratings — published 2019
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,340 ratings — published 2014
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,066 ratings — published 1959
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,997 ratings — published 1987
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,634 ratings — published 2018
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,519 ratings — published 2017
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,382 ratings — published 2007
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,891 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,083 ratings — published 2010
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,550 ratings — published 2022
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,866 ratings — published 2021
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,178 ratings — published 2000
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,969 ratings — published 1917
The Ministry of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.55 — 270,273 ratings — published 2024
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 3 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,476 ratings — published
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,297 ratings — published 2021
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.37 — 801 ratings — published 1988
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 882 ratings — published 1998
Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.75 — 264 ratings — published 2000
Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.72 — 175 ratings — published
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 672 ratings — published
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,986 ratings — published 2010
A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.51 — 284 ratings — published 2024
Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 203 ratings — published 2016
Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 236 ratings — published
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,342 ratings — published 2012
Lady Franklins Revenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.79 — 192 ratings — published 2005
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 646 ratings — published 2006
The Curiosity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.60 — 5,278 ratings — published 2013
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,798 ratings — published 1922
Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.32 — 410 ratings — published 2009
Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.81 — 333 ratings — published 2000
Arctic Obsession: The Lure of the Far North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.07 — 45 ratings — published 2011
Nansen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 316 ratings — published 1997
Journey to the Polar Sea (Konemann Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 52 ratings — published 1824
Scott of the Antarctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 50 ratings — published 1977
The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 206 ratings — published 1976
Arctic Explorations: In Search of Sir John Franklin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.75 — 28 ratings — published 1885
My Life With the Eskimo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.07 — 319 ratings — published 1913
Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 231 ratings — published 2002
Where the Dead Wait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.19 — 1,918 ratings — published 2023
Peary: The Explorer and the Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published
North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 60 ratings — published 1999
Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 239 ratings — published
Bitter Passage (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,394 ratings — published 2025
In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers (In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History Book 5)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
North Star of Herschel Island - The Last Canadian Arctic Fur Trading Ship. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.82 — 11 ratings — published 2012
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 637,536 ratings — published 2025
A Haunting in the Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as arctic-exploration)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,894 ratings — published 2023