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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.90 — 116,231 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,373 ratings — published 1959
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,051 ratings — published 2003
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,729 ratings — published 1919
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.23 — 70,125 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 4.30 — 27,355 ratings — published 2014
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.22 — 82,830 ratings — published 2005
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 27,143 ratings — published 2024
The Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,622 ratings — published 1298
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,808 ratings — published 1922
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,287 ratings — published 2017
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,915 ratings — published 1948
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,421 ratings — published
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,707 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.34 — 22,054 ratings — published 1998
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.16 — 243,435 ratings — published 2023
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,705 ratings — published 2011
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 — 18,247 ratings — published 2022
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.27 — 592,878 ratings — published 1997
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,648 ratings — published 1979
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,876 ratings — published 2018
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,743 ratings — published 2000
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Library Binding)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,140 ratings — published 2001
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.82 — 978 ratings — published 2011
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,332 ratings — published 2021
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,679 ratings — published 2014
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,491 ratings — published 1905
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,137 ratings — published 2011
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,571 ratings — published 2008
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,288 ratings — published 1995
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,866 ratings — published 2021
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,525 ratings — published 2017
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,352 ratings — published 2013
Shackleton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 735 ratings — published 1975
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,697 ratings — published 1839
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,482 ratings — published 2007
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,864 ratings — published 2002
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,070 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 — 2,616 ratings — published 2001
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,412 ratings — published 2015
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,515 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 — 1,008 ratings — published 1912
The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.93 — 962 ratings — published 1825
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,001 ratings — published 1987
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,799 ratings — published 2004
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,007 ratings — published 2008
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 4.26 — 1,155 ratings — published 1990
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,558 ratings — published 2022
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,460 ratings — published 2011
Lost City of the Incas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,515 ratings — published 1948
“Explorers don't need a reason.”
― The Lost Templar
― The Lost Templar
“Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.”
― Travels With Myself
― Travels With Myself
