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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 175,232 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 113,908 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,662 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,773 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,650 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,666 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,157 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,219 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,602 ratings — published 1919
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 24,386 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,613 ratings — published 2021
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 583,021 ratings — published 1997
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,560 ratings — published 2022
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 228,970 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,213,343 ratings — published 1996
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,515 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,412 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,767 ratings — published 2002
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,261 ratings — published 2018
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,948 ratings — published 1998
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,076 ratings — published 2001
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,614 ratings — published 1979
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,257 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,912 ratings — published 1987
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,577 ratings — published 1948
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,755 ratings — published 2000
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,896 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,492 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,615 ratings — published 1839
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,670 ratings — published 2015
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,120 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 — 4,040 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 77,539 ratings — published 2007
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,630 ratings — published 2002
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,830 ratings — published 2021
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,358 ratings — published
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,319 ratings — published 2014
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,128 ratings — published 2010
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,513 ratings — published 2008
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,642 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 281,959 ratings — published 1869
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,076 ratings — published 2011
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,469 ratings — published 2017
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,284 ratings — published 2012
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 — 2,943 ratings — published 1917
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 866 ratings — published 1998
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 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,620 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,151 ratings — published 2000
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,391 ratings — published 2022
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,283 ratings — published 2005
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
