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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 172,686 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 — 112,964 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,479 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 — 26,508 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.22 — 79,786 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 8,603 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 68,760 ratings — published 1996
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 63,768 ratings — published 2017
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,543 ratings — published 1919
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 578,673 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,302 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,265 ratings — published 2021
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,341 ratings — published 2022
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 223,491 ratings — published 2023
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,207,335 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 — 77,155 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 — 4,233 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,729 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,907 ratings — published 1998
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,062 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 — 3,601 ratings — published 1979
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 — 7,047 ratings — published 2001
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,212 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,870 ratings — published 1987
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,449 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 — 120,911 ratings — published 2000
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,856 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,483 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,576 ratings — published 1839
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,386 ratings — published 2015
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,034 ratings — published 2019
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,985 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 76,476 ratings — published 2007
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,596 ratings — published 2002
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,810 ratings — published 2021
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,331 ratings — published
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 60,916 ratings — published 2010
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 13,163 ratings — published 2014
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 9,479 ratings — published 2008
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 13,519 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 280,577 ratings — published 1869
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,061 ratings — published 2011
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,452 ratings — published 2017
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 — 2,923 ratings — published 1917
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,600 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,133 ratings — published 2000
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 864 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 96,705 ratings — published 2005
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,260 ratings — published 2012
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,330,401 ratings — published 2011
“When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!”
― Isabella Warrior Queen
― Isabella Warrior Queen
“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
