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Polar Exploration Books
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 170,382 ratings — published 1959
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,553 ratings — published 1922
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,907 ratings — published 2021
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,282 ratings — published 2014
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,828 ratings — published 1987
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,954 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 4.36 — 3,585 ratings — published 1979
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,564 ratings — published 2007
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 — 5,178 ratings — published 2013
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,009 ratings — published 2006
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,483 ratings — published 1919
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,916 ratings — published 1913
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,449 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,240 ratings — published 2022
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,237 ratings — published 2012
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,124 ratings — published 2000
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,856 ratings — published 2018
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.25 — 973 ratings — published 2001
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,778 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 — 1,463 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 — 1,368 ratings — published 2001
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,063 ratings — published 2010
Captain Scott (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,476 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 4.05 — 2,917 ratings — published 1917
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.09 — 346 ratings — published 1997
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,782 ratings — published 2003
Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,767 ratings — published 1977
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 861 ratings — published 1998
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,860 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 4.20 — 977 ratings — published 1912
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,387 ratings — published 2022
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,254 ratings — published 1933
The White Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,169 ratings — published 2018
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 358 ratings — published 2001
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 15,043 ratings — published 1931
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,491 ratings — published 2000
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 148 ratings — published 1991
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.69 — 118 ratings — published
James Fitzjames: the Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 197 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,036 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 — 224 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 — 472 ratings — published 1915
Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 794 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 4.36 — 781 ratings — published 1988
A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.97 — 380 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 — 404 ratings — published 2011
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,228 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 4.18 — 1,568 ratings — published 2025
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as polar-exploration)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,286 ratings — published 2023
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 4.13 — 1,540 ratings — published 2017
“Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.”
― Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
― Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
“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
