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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 168,422 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 111,511 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,195 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,077 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 78,375 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,508 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 68,175 ratings — published 1996
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,416 ratings — published 1919
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 63,115 ratings — published 2017
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 572,514 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,592 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,654 ratings — published 2021
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,963 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,198,386 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 214,546 ratings — published 2023
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,296 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,985 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,670 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,829 ratings — published 1998
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,708 ratings — published 2018
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,577 ratings — published 1979
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,005 ratings — published 2001
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,784 ratings — published 1987
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,148 ratings — published 2013
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,229 ratings — published 1948
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,801 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,659 ratings — published 2000
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,478 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,494 ratings — published 1839
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,906 ratings — published 2019
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,903 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 74,866 ratings — published 2007
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,763 ratings — published 2021
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,943 ratings — published 2015
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,548 ratings — published 2002
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,554 ratings — published 2010
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,294 ratings — published
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,445 ratings — published 2008
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,942 ratings — published 2014
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,292 ratings — published 2007
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,029 ratings — published 2011
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,428 ratings — published 2017
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.89 — 278,268 ratings — published 1869
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,906 ratings — published 1917
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,213 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,115 ratings — published 2000
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 857 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,747 ratings — published 2005
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,559 ratings — published 2016
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,520 ratings — published 2001
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― Isabella Warrior Queen
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
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