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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.90 — 109,899 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,231 ratings — published 1959
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,932 ratings — published 2003
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,286 ratings — published 1919
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,561 ratings — published 1996
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,564 ratings — published 2014
The Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,143 ratings — published 1298
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,882 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,391 ratings — published 1922
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.93 — 62,467 ratings — published 2017
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,471 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,729 ratings — published 1998
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 19,571 ratings — published 2024
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,000 ratings — published 1948
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,254 ratings — published
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,369 ratings — published 2023
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,646 ratings — published 2022
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,854 ratings — published 2011
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,663 ratings — published 2018
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,544 ratings — published 1979
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.26 — 564,449 ratings — published 1997
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.82 — 950 ratings — published 2011
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,001 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,295 ratings — published 2000
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,405 ratings — published 2008
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,925 ratings — published 2001
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,998 ratings — published 2021
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
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 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,686 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,503 ratings — published 2015
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,065 ratings — published 2013
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,402 ratings — published 1905
Shackleton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 723 ratings — published 1975
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,407 ratings — published 1839
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,192 ratings — published 2007
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,122 ratings — published 1995
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,371 ratings — published 2017
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,501 ratings — published 2015
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,496 ratings — published 2001
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,345 ratings — published 2003
South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 947 ratings — published 1912
The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.92 — 933 ratings — published 1825
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,698 ratings — published 1987
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,189 ratings — published 2008
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,609 ratings — published 2002
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,827 ratings — published 2007
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,122 ratings — published 1990
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations – A Radical Reinterpretation of the Struggle Between Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,372 ratings — published 2011
Lost City of the Incas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,415 ratings — published 1948
Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.69 — 259 ratings — published 1991
“This is Bad. Sindbad, I mean." I'd wanted to name him after a great explorer, but none of them seemed to fit. Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley were obvious choices (Mr. Locke so admired them he even had Stanley's own revolver on display in his office, a narrow-nosed Enfield that he cleaned and oiled on a weekly basis), but they made me think of that shriveled African arm in its glass case. Magellan was too long, Drake too boring, Columbus too bumbling; in the end I'd named him after the only explorer who rendered the world stranger and more wondrous with each voyage.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Kali was extremely lucky to have lived as long as she did. Most octopuses die as paralarvae. Only two in 100,000 hatchlings survive to sexual maturity-otherwise the sea would be overrun with octopuses. "And at least we know she had a good last day, " I said. "Yes," said Wilson. "She had a day of freedom. And that she got out tells you a phenomenally inquisitive and intelligent creature wanted her freedom. We know, clearly, it must have taken a lot of effort to get out. A stupid animal wouldn't do that."
"She died like a great explorer," I said. Like the astronauts who died blasting off in Challenger, or the brave men who perished in attempts to find the source of the Nile, penetrate the Amazon, visit the poles, Kali had chosen to face unknown dangers in the quest to widen the horizons of her world.”
― The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
"She died like a great explorer," I said. Like the astronauts who died blasting off in Challenger, or the brave men who perished in attempts to find the source of the Nile, penetrate the Amazon, visit the poles, Kali had chosen to face unknown dangers in the quest to widen the horizons of her world.”
― The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
