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Polar Exploration Books
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,762 ratings — published 1959
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,396 ratings — published 1922
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,055 ratings — published 2021
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,616 ratings — published 2014
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,704 ratings — published 1987
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,757 ratings — published 2019
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,545 ratings — published 1979
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,076 ratings — published 2013
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,345 ratings — published 2007
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,294 ratings — published 1919
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,979 ratings — published 2006
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,884 ratings — published 1913
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,377 ratings — published 2017
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,086 ratings — published 2000
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,071 ratings — published 2022
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 27 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,157 ratings — published 2012
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.25 — 944 ratings — published 2001
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,472 ratings — published 2018
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,722 ratings — published 2021
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 22 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,445 ratings — published
Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,329 ratings — published 2001
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,049 ratings — published 2010
Captain Scott (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,455 ratings — published 2004
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,878 ratings — published 1917
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,706 ratings — published 2003
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,743 ratings — published 1977
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 341 ratings — published 1997
South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 947 ratings — published 1912
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 853 ratings — published 1998
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,235 ratings — published 1933
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,736 ratings — published 1998
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,704 ratings — published 2018
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,270 ratings — published 2022
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 133 ratings — published 1991
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 349 ratings — published 2001
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,947 ratings — published 1931
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,398 ratings — published 2000
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,024 ratings — published 2012
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.94 — 217 ratings — published 1996
The Home Of The Blizzard: A True Story Of Antarctic Survival (abridged edition)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 468 ratings — published 1915
Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 783 ratings — published 2000
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.37 — 764 ratings — published 1988
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.67 — 114 ratings — published
James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 194 ratings — published 2010
A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.98 — 374 ratings — published 2016
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.59 — 397 ratings — published 2011
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,225 ratings — published 2001
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,310 ratings — published 2025
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,493 ratings — published 2017
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 610 ratings — published 2006
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”
― The Worst Journey in the World
― The Worst Journey in the World
“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
