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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 — 112,160 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.46 — 170,348 ratings — published 1959
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,311 ratings — published 2003
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,483 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 — 68,431 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 — 26,281 ratings — published 2014
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 — 22,329 ratings — published 2024
The Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,329 ratings — published 1298
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.21 — 79,025 ratings — published 2005
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,553 ratings — published 1922
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.93 — 63,366 ratings — published 2017
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,584 ratings — published 2002
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,858 ratings — published 1998
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.17 — 218,369 ratings — published 2023
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,334 ratings — published 1948
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,309 ratings — published
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 — 17,095 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 4.22 — 4,063 ratings — published 2011
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 — 3,584 ratings — published 1979
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.26 — 575,262 ratings — published 1997
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,166 ratings — published 2018
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 — 7,023 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 3.81 — 961 ratings — published 2011
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,041 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 — 120,206 ratings — published 2000
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,461 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 — 76,498 ratings — published 1995
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 — 18,903 ratings — published 2021
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,777 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 4.10 — 13,046 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,123 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 — 5,177 ratings — published 2013
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,444 ratings — published 1905
Shackleton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.35 — 726 ratings — published 1975
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,526 ratings — published 1839
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,553 ratings — published 2007
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,448 ratings — published 2017
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,664 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 — 2,533 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 — 5,411 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 4.20 — 977 ratings — published 1912
The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.92 — 953 ratings — published 1825
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,828 ratings — published 1987
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,202,181 ratings — published 1996
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,478 ratings — published 2008
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as explorers)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,698 ratings — published 2002
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 — 1,133 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 4.14 — 1,404 ratings — published 2011
Lost City of the Incas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,442 ratings — published 1948
Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as explorers)
avg rating 3.69 — 261 ratings — published 1991
“These stories fed her dreams.”
― The Ship of Shadows
― The Ship of Shadows
“Juet's journal frequently records how only a tiny quantity of alcohol was needed to get the Indians drunk, 'for they could not take it'; and tales of the drunkenness that greeted Hudsons' arrival persisted among the native Indians until the last century. Indeed Heckewelder claims that the name Manhattan is derived from the drunkenness that took place there, since the Indian word 'manahactanienk' means 'the island of general intoxication'.”
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
