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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,085 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 — 109,842 ratings — published 2009
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,921 ratings — published 2003
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,553 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,842 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,388 ratings — published 1922
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,540 ratings — published 1996
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,280 ratings — published 1919
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,454 ratings — published 2017
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 564,217 ratings — published 1997
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 19,505 ratings — published 2024
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,987 ratings — published 2021
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,639 ratings — published 2022
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,185,684 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,060 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 — 76,099 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 4.21 — 3,850 ratings — published 2011
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,608 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,727 ratings — published 1998
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 — 3,544 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 — 6,924 ratings — published 2001
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,438 ratings — published 2018
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,996 ratings — published 1948
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,696 ratings — published 1987
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,064 ratings — published 2013
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,269 ratings — published 2000
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,743 ratings — published 2011
The White Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,466 ratings — published 1960
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,406 ratings — published 1839
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,742 ratings — published 2019
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,136 ratings — published 2007
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,468 ratings — published 2002
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,487 ratings — published 2015
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,823 ratings — published 2007
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,161 ratings — published 2010
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,253 ratings — published
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,404 ratings — published 2008
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,712 ratings — published 2021
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 4.09 — 12,682 ratings — published 2014
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,001 ratings — published 2011
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,053 ratings — published 2007
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,876 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)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,516 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,079 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 — 850 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,795 ratings — published 2005
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,370 ratings — published 2017
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,153 ratings — published 2012
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,494 ratings — published 2001
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as exploration)
avg rating 3.89 — 275,334 ratings — published 1869
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“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
