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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,810 ratings — published 1959
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,819 ratings — published 1922
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,388 ratings — published 2021
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,387 ratings — published 2014
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,006 ratings — published 1987
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,270 ratings — published 2019
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,649 ratings — published 2007
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 — 3,649 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 3.87 — 5,357 ratings — published 2013
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,051 ratings — published 2006
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,737 ratings — published 1919
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,688 ratings — published 2018
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,953 ratings — published 1913
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,531 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,567 ratings — published 2022
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 30 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,349 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,183 ratings — published 2000
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,013 ratings — published 2001
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,869 ratings — published 2021
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,084 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,477 ratings — published
Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,451 ratings — published 2001
Captain Scott (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,517 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 4.06 — 2,975 ratings — published 1917
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 357 ratings — published 1997
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,893 ratings — published 2003
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,805 ratings — published 1977
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 22,060 ratings — published 1998
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 — 1,009 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 4.19 — 883 ratings — published 1998
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,558 ratings — published 2022
James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 208 ratings — published 2010
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 164 ratings — published 1991
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,291 ratings — published 1933
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.67 — 134 ratings — published
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,898 ratings — published 2018
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 368 ratings — published 2001
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,214 ratings — published 1931
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,646 ratings — published 2000
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,924 ratings — published 2025
A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 389 ratings — published 2016
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,059 ratings — published 2012
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 233 ratings — published 1996
The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 477 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 — 806 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 — 801 ratings — published 1988
Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 230 ratings — published
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.61 — 414 ratings — published 2011
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.06 — 647 ratings — published 2006
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,239 ratings — published 2001
“The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.”
― Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
― Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
“By 1854, when the search was called off, almost every corner of the Canadian archipelago below the 77th parallel had been traversed, drawn, and recorded on large maps carefully tipped into the papers. So fragile now they hardly bear touching, they are still in their spare precision beautiful and moving, the tangible result of the toes and fingers lost to frostbite, the starvation and profound exhaustion and sometimes the death of me dragging heavy sledges over rough ice or through deep snow, skirting the edge of human endurance.”
― The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
― The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
