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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 167,071 ratings — published 1959
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.90 — 111,115 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,121 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 — 25,951 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 77,984 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,475 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 — 68,010 ratings — published 1996
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,386 ratings — published 1919
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,945 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 — 570,684 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 4.47 — 21,121 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 — 18,474 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 — 16,881 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,195,950 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 211,944 ratings — published 2023
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,534 ratings — published 1995
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,952 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,658 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,793 ratings — published 1998
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,637 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 — 3,568 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 — 6,986 ratings — published 2001
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,131 ratings — published 2013
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,762 ratings — published 1987
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,164 ratings — published 1948
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,332 ratings — published 2000
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,792 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,476 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,471 ratings — published 1839
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,862 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 — 3,882 ratings — published 2007
The Terror (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 74,432 ratings — published 2007
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,757 ratings — published 2021
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,527 ratings — published 2002
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 29,838 ratings — published 2015
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,473 ratings — published 2010
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,285 ratings — published
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 9,438 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 — 12,889 ratings — published 2014
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,243 ratings — published 2007
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,020 ratings — published 2011
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 277,377 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 — 2,899 ratings — published 1917
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 2,419 ratings — published 2017
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 — 2,547 ratings — published 2016
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,202 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,108 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 — 855 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,519 ratings — published 2005
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,515 ratings — published 2001
“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
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“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
