The Best Books And Biographies About Explorers
“What are the best books about Explorers?” We looked at 532 of the top Explorer books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 28 titles, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Explorer” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 500+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
Happy Scrolling!
Top 28 Books About Explorers Of All-Time
28 .) A Walk in The Woods by Bill Bryson
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- Explorers Pasage
- Outside Online
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way–and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).
27 .) Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- CN Traveler
- Outside Online
“Arabian Sands” is Wilfred Thesiger’s record of his extraordinary journey through the parched “Empty Quarter” of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-“the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets.” In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.
26 .) Between A Rock And A Hard Place by Aron Ralston
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Book Riot
- MPORA
A brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life which will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories. One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told — Aron Ralston’s searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado’s highest and toughest peaks. He’d earned this weekend vacation, and though he met two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the beauty of the natural world all around him. It was 2:41 P.M. Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose.
25 .) Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- CN Traveler
- Gear Patrol
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation’s backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about “those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at all-only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi.” His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.
24 .) Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen
Lists It Appears On:
- CN Traveler
- Five Books
- Good Reads
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea’s drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn’t be built and that the voyage was tantamount to suicide. This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration. Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sledge. An unforgettable tale and a must-read for any armchair explorer.
23 .) In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Lists It Appears On:
- Explorers Pasage
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
Tells perhaps the greatest sea story ever – an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. “With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed – at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port bow…” In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex – an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear. In the Heart of the Sea tells perhaps the greatest sea story ever.
22 .) My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David Neel
Lists It Appears On:
- Kora
- Matadorn Network
- Outside Online
In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal.
21 .) Scott’s Last Expedition: The Journals by Robert Falcon Scott
Lists It Appears On:
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
- The Guardian
The Last Expedition is Captain Scott’s gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12. It was meant to be a voyage of scientific discovery and a heroic exploration of the last unconquered wilderness. Scott’s expedition, carried in the Terra Nova, pitted him and his team not only against the elements but also against the Norwegian explorer, Amundsen. Ultimately, Scott was beaten by both. The journals are full of incident and drama, courage and endurance, hope and bitter disappointment. Â These journals were found, along with Scott’s body, several months after his death and just 11 miles from base camp and safety.
20 .) Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler
Lists It Appears On:
- Kora
- Quixote Expeditions
- The Guardian
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it “the last great journey”; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind. Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers. No book is more true to the spirit of that continent–beguiling, enchanted and vast beyond the furthest reaches of our imagination.
19 .) The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- CN Traveler
- Gear Patrol
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land.
18 .) The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Book Riot
- Gear Patrol
“Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature’s splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost”. October 1991. It was “the perfect storm”–a tempest that may happen only once in a century–a nor’easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.
17 .) Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
Lists It Appears On:
- CN Traveler
- Kora
- Matadorn Network
Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. “Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt,” writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt’s secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed “other” in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone.
16 .) A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- CN Traveler
- Gear Patrol
- Outside Online
When Eric Newby, fashion industry worker and inexperienced hill walker, decided after 10 years in haute couture he needed a change he took 4 days training in Wales then walked the Hindu Kush. This is his account of an entertaining time in the hills!
15 .) In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- CN Traveler
- Gear Patrol
- Outside Online
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through “the uttermost part of the earth”— that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcome—in search of almost forgotten legends, the descendants of Welsh immigrants, and the log cabin built by Butch Cassidy. An instant classic upon publication in 1977, In Patagonia is a masterpiece that has cast a long shadow upon the literary world.
14 .) Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
- Thought Catalog
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account… it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan’s daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.
13 .) The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- CN Traveler
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 1804–6. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West.This set of the celebrated Nebraska edition features the seven core volumes—those written by Lewis and Clark—and incorporates a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, including geography, Indian languages, plants, and animals, in order to recreate the expedition within its historical context.
12 .) Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Book Riot
- MPORA
- Outside Online
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave. How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.
11 .) Tracks by Robyn Davidson
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- Kora
- Matadorn Network
- Outside Online
Robyn Davidson’s opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: “I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.” Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia’s landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity. Tracks is the compelling, candid story of her odyssey of discovery and transformation.
10 .) Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America’s Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
- Thought Catalog
This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory’. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies. It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, vast land ruled by the Indians. Charismatic and brave, Lewis was the perfect choice and he experienced the savage North American continent before any other white man. UNDAUNTED COURAGE is the tale of a hero, but it is also a tragedy. Lewis may have received a hero’s welcome on his return to Washington in 1806, but his discoveries did not match the president’s fantasies of sweeping, fertile plains ripe for the taking. Feeling the expedition had been a failure, Lewis took to drink and piled up debts.
9 .) Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- Explorers Pasage
- Kora
- Matadorn Network
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
8 .) Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Book Riot
- Gear Patrol
- Outside Online
Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying.
7 .) The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Book Riot
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
- Thought Catalog
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett & his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humans. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions inspired Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions round the globe, Fawcett embarked with his 21-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilisation–which he dubbed Z–existed. Then his expedition vanished. Fawcett’s fate, & the tantalizing clues he left behind about Z, became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness. For decades scientists & adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett’s party & the lost City of Z.
6 .) Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Book Bub
- Book Riot
- Good Reads
- MPORA
- Outside Online
His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.
5 .) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Atlas & Boots
- Book Riot
- Explorers Pasage
- Good Reads
- MPORA
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that “suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down.” He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more–including Krakauer’s–in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer’s epic account of the May 1996 disaster.
4 .) Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Gear Patrol
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
- MPORA
- Outside Online
Five men in search of a mythical hero journey from Peru to Polynesia in this classic account of nautical adventure. This enriched classic edition includes: Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work A unique visual essay of the voyage
3 .) West With The Night by Beryl Markham
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- CN Traveler
- Gear Patrol
- Goodreads 2
- Matadorn Network
- Outside Online
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham–aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty–and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and ’30s.
2 .) Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- CN Traveler
- Explorers Pasage
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
- Mens Journal
- Quixote Expeditions
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will that shines through.
1 .) The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Lists It Appears On:
- Art Of Manliness
- Book Riot
- CN Traveler
- Gear Patrol
- Good Reads
- Goodreads 2
- Outside Online
- Quixote Expeditions
- The Guardian
The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott’s team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey, draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scott’s legendary expedition. Cherry himself would be among the search party that discovered the corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from starvation and brutal cold. It is through Cherry’s insightful narrative and keen descriptions that Scott and the other members of the expedition are fully memorialized.
The 500+ Additional Best Books about Explorers And Adventurers
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 29 | 1421: The Year China Discovered America | Gavin Menzies | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 30 | A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisine | Anthony Bourdain | Book Riot |
| Mens Journal | |||
| 31 | A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit | Book Riot |
| Matadorn Network | |||
| 32 | A Sense of Direction | Gideon Lewis-Kraus | Book Riot |
| Gear Patrol | |||
| 33 | A Time of Gifts | Patrick Leigh Fermor | CN Traveler |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 34 | Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost At Sea | Steven Callahan | Art Of Manliness |
| Book Riot | |||
| 35 | Alive | Piers Paul Read | Art Of Manliness |
| MPORA | |||
| 36 | Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy | Fergus Fleming | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 37 | Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth | Brian Dickinson | Good Reads |
| MPORA | |||
| 38 | Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before | Tony Horwitz | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 39 | Brazilian Adventure | Peter Fleming | Art Of Manliness |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 40 | Desert Solitaire | Edward Abbey | Gear Patrol |
| Outside Online | |||
| 41 | Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | Book Bub |
| Book Riot | |||
| 42 | Four Corners: A Journey into The Heart of Papua New Guinea | Kira Salak | Book Riot |
| Matadorn Network | |||
| 43 | Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle | Dervla Murphy | Kora |
| Matadorn Network | |||
| 44 | Great Plains | Ian Frazier | CN Traveler |
| Outside Online | |||
| 45 | High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest | Edmund Hillary | Art Of Manliness |
| Book Riot | |||
| 46 | Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition | Paul Watson | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 47 | In A Sunburned Country | Book Riot | |
| CN Traveler | |||
| 48 | In Search of King Solomon’s Mines | Tahir Shah | Book Riot |
| Gear Patrol | |||
| 49 | In Trouble Again | Redmond O’Hanlon | CN Traveler |
| Gear Patrol | |||
| 50 | Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone | Martin Dugard | Art Of Manliness |
| Good Reads | |||
| 51 | Into the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick | Art Of Manliness |
| Gear Patrol | |||
| 52 | Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest | Atlas & Boots | |
| Good Reads | |||
| 53 | Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written | Lennard Bickel | Art Of Manliness |
| Good Reads | |||
| 54 | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found | Book Riot | |
| CN Traveler | |||
| 55 | Old Glory | Jonathan Raban | CN Traveler |
| Outside Online | |||
| 56 | Savage Summit | Kora | |
| Kora | |||
| 57 | Scott and Amundsen | Roland Huntford | Goodreads 2 |
| Quixote Expeditions | |||
| 58 | Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 | Nathaniel Philbrick | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 59 | South: The Endurance Expedition | Ernest Shackleton | Art Of Manliness |
| Book Riot | |||
| 60 | South: the Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917 | Ernest Shackleton | Good Reads |
| The Guardian | |||
| 61 | Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer | Book Riot | |
| Kora | |||
| 62 | The Blue Nile | Alan Moorehead | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 63 | The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons | John Wesley Powell | Art Of Manliness |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 64 | The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives | Christopher Columbus | Art Of Manliness |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 65 | The Great Railway Bazaar | Paul Theroux | CN Traveler |
| Gear Patrol | |||
| 66 | The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom | Slavomir Rawicz | CN Traveler |
| MPORA | |||
| 67 | The Mountains of My Life | Walter Bonatti | Atlas & Boots |
| Outside Online | |||
| 68 | The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt | Isabelle Eberhardt | CN Traveler |
| Matadorn Network | |||
| 69 | The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | Mens Journal |
| The Guardian | |||
| 70 | The River of Doubt | Explorers Pasage | |
| Good Reads | |||
| 71 | The Snow Leopard | Peter Matthiessen | Gear Patrol |
| Outside Online | |||
| 72 | The South Pole | Roald Amundsen | Five Books |
| Quixote Expeditions | |||
| 73 | The Terror | Dan Simmons | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 74 | The Travels of Marco Polo | Marco Polo | Art Of Manliness |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 75 | The Travels of Sir John Mandeville | CN Traveler | |
| The Guardian | |||
| 76 | The Valley of the Assassins | Freya Stark | Kora |
| Matadorn Network | |||
| 77 | The White Nile | Alan Moorehead | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 78 | Through the Brazilian Wilderness | Theodore Roosevelt | Art Of Manliness |
| Gear Patrol | |||
| 79 | Travels in West Africa | Mary Henrietta Kingsley | Kora |
| Matadorn Network | |||
| 80 | Travels With Charley | John Steinbeck | Book Riot |
| Gear Patrol | |||
| 81 | Voyage of the Beagle | Charles Darwin | Good Reads |
| Goodreads 2 | |||
| 82 | Wanderlust: A Love Affair With Five Continents | Book Riot | |
| Book Riot | |||
| 83 | Young Men and Fire | Norman Maclean | Gear Patrol |
| Outside Online | |||
| (Titles Appear On 1 Lists Each) | |||
| 84 | 100 Walks in Tasmania | UTAS | |
| 85 | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Good Reads | |
| 86 | 1607: A New Look at Jamestown | Karen Lange and Ira Block. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 87 | 30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot | Tom Vetter | Goodreads 2 |
| 88 | A Barbarian in Asia | CN Traveler | |
| 89 | A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire | Nicholas Murray | Goodreads 2 |
| 90 | A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space | Libby Jackson with artwork from the students of London College of Communication | Book Trust |
| 91 | A Girl in the Karpathians | Kora | |
| 92 | A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains | Kora | |
| 93 | A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca | Good Reads | |
| 94 | A Man On the Moon: Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts | Andrew Chaikin | Art Of Manliness |
| 95 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster | Book Bub |
| 96 | A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark | Fatherly | |
| 97 | A Small Place | Jamaica Kincaid | Matadorn Network |
| 98 | A Teacup in a Storm: An Explorer’s Guide to Life | Mick Conefrey | Book Trust |
| 99 | A Thousand Miles Up the Nile | Kora | |
| 100 | A View of the World | CN Traveler | |
| 101 | A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America | Tony Horwitz | Goodreads 2 |
| 102 | A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World | Good Reads | |
| 103 | A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions | James Clark Ross | Five Books |
| 104 | A Woman’s Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor | Kora | |
| 105 | A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman | Book Riot | |
| 106 | Across the Wide Missouri | Bernard DeVoto | Goodreads 2 |
| 107 | Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America | Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | Goodreads 2 |
| 108 | African Savanna | National Geographic | |
| 109 | African Savanna Community Web | National Geographic | |
| 110 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Book Bub |
| 111 | All Africans under the Skin | National Geographic | |
| 112 | Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail | Suzanne Roberts | Matadorn Network |
| 113 | Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration | Good Reads | |
| 114 | Amber Case: We’re Already Cyborgs | National Geographic | |
| 115 | Amelia Earhart (Little People, Big Dreams) | Isabel Sanchez Vegara (author) and Mariadiamantes (illustrator) | Book Trust |
| 116 | America’s Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation | Kora | |
| 117 | Amy Johnson: Queen of the Air | Kora | |
| 118 | An African in Greenland | Book Riot | |
| 119 | Animal Adaptations in the Ocean | National Geographic | |
| 120 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Book Riot | |
| 121 | Annapurna | Maurice Herzog | Art Of Manliness |
| 122 | Annapurna South Face: The Classic Account of Survival | Atlas & Boots | |
| 123 | Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak | Atlas & Boots | |
| 124 | Ansichten der Natur | Alexander von Humboldt | Goodreads 2 |
| 125 | Ant Egg Soup: Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos | Book Riot | |
| 126 | Antarctica | Kim Stanley Robinson | Quixote Expeditions |
| 127 | Antarctica: Or, Two years amongst the ice of the South Pole | Otto Nordenskjold | Quixote Expeditions |
| 128 | Arctic Dreams | Barry Lopez | Outside Online |
| 129 | Around the World in Eighty Dates: What if Mr. Right isn’t Mr. Right Here, A True Story | Book Riot | |
| 130 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | Book Bub |
| 131 | Around the World in Fifty Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth | Book Riot | |
| 132 | Around the World in Seventy Two Days and Other Writings | Kora | |
| 133 | Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride | Kora | |
| 134 | Assassination Vacation | Book Riot | |
| 135 | Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival | Good Reads | |
| 136 | At One with the Sea: Alone Around the World | Kora | |
| 137 | Atlas of Adventures | Fatherly | |
| 138 | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life | William Finnegan | MPORA |
| 139 | Baudolino | Umberto Eco | Goodreads 2 |
| 140 | Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide | Book Riot | |
| 141 | Below the Convergence | Alan Gurney | Quixote Expeditions |
| 142 | Berserk: My Voyage to the Antarctic in a Twenty-Seven-Foot Sailboat | David Mercy | Goodreads 2 |
| 143 | Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West | Wallace Stegner | Goodreads 2 |
| 144 | Beyond the Mountain | Book Riot | |
| 145 | Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America | Giles Milton | Goodreads 2 |
| 146 | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon | CN Traveler | |
| 147 | Braving It: A Father, A Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild | Book Riot | |
| 148 | Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life | Book Riot | |
| 149 | Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers | Peter Raby | Goodreads 2 |
| 150 | Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day | Atlas & Boots | |
| 151 | Cabeza de Vaca’s Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America | Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | Art Of Manliness |
| 152 | Call of the White: Taking the World to the South Pole | Kora | |
| 153 | Canyon Solitude: A Woman’s Solo Journey Through The Grand Canyon | Book Riot | |
| 154 | Captain Cook: Master of the Seas | Frank McLynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 155 | Captain Cook: The Seaman’s Seaman – A study of the great discoverer [Classic Biography] | Alan Villiers | Goodreads 2 |
| 156 | Captain John Smith: Writings (2007) | CN Traveler | |
| 157 | Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton | Edward Rice | Goodreads 2 |
| 158 | Catfish and Mandala | Book Riot | |
| 159 | Chasing the Monsoon | CN Traveler | |
| 160 | Chasing the Sea | CN Traveler | |
| 161 | Children’s Activity Atlas | Imagination Soup | |
| 162 | Coasting : A Private Voyage | Book Riot | |
| 163 | Cold Antler Farm: A Memoir of Growing Food and Celebrating Life on a Scrappy Six-Acre Homestead | Book Riot | |
| 164 | Columbus: The Four Voyages | Good Reads | |
| 165 | Coming into the Country | John McPhee | Outside Online |
| 166 | Cross Country | CN Traveler | |
| 167 | Dakota: A Spiritual Geography | Book Riot | |
| 168 | Dark Star Safari | CN Traveler | |
| 169 | Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident | Atlas & Boots | |
| 170 | Death in the Long Grass | Peter Hathaway Capstick | Art Of Manliness |
| 171 | Deep South | UTAS | |
| 172 | Deep-Sea Decisions | National Geographic | |
| 173 | Deep-Sea Submersible Pilot Erika Bergman | National Geographic | |
| 174 | Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns and Game Meat | Book Riot | |
| 175 | Delancey | Book Riot | |
| 176 | Democracy in America | CN Traveler | |
| 177 | Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak | Atlas & Boots | |
| 178 | Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods | Christine Byl | Matadorn Network |
| 179 | Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years, 1842-45, During the Mission Sent Out by His Majesty Fredrick William IV. of Prussia | Carl Richard Lepsius | Goodreads 2 |
| 180 | Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors | James Reston Jr. | Goodreads 2 |
| 181 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | Book Bub |
| 182 | Doodle Adventures: The Search for Slimy Space Slugs! | Imagination Soup | |
| 183 | Douglas Freshfield | Round Kangchenjunga | Mark Horrell |
| 184 | Down and Out in Paris and London | CN Traveler | |
| 185 | Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon | Edward Dolnick | Goodreads 2 |
| 186 | Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff | CN Traveler | |
| 187 | Dust Tracks on a Road | Kora | |
| 188 | Eating Dirt | Book Riot | |
| 189 | Education | National Geographic | |
| 190 | Edward Whymper | Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator | Mark Horrell |
| 191 | Egyptian Diaries | Jean-François Champollion | Goodreads 2 |
| 192 | Encounter | Jane Yolen and David Shannon. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 193 | Endurance | F.A. Worsley | Outside Online |
| 194 | environment | National Geographic | |
| 195 | Eothen | CN Traveler | |
| 196 | Epigrams | National Geographic | |
| 197 | Eric Shipton | Blank on the Map | Mark Horrell |
| 198 | Everest the Cruel Way | Atlas & Boots | |
| 199 | Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and Its Tributaries | David Livingstone | Goodreads 2 |
| 200 | explorers | National Geographic | |
| 201 | Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure | Good Reads | |
| 202 | Exploring Ponds and Vernal Pools | National Geographic | |
| 203 | Exterminate All the Brutes” | CN Traveler | |
| 204 | Far Appalachia: Following the New River North | Book Riot | |
| 205 | Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook | Martin Dugard | Art Of Manliness |
| 206 | Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature | Thor Heyerdahl | Goodreads 2 |
| 207 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | CN Traveler | |
| 208 | Fighter Pilot | Paul Richey | Gear Patrol |
| 209 | Find a Way: The Inspiring Story of One Woman’s Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream | Book Riot | |
| 210 | Find Your Local Library | National Geographic | |
| 211 | First To The Top | Fatherly | |
| 212 | Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures series | Imagination Soup | |
| 213 | Follow the Dream | Peter Sis. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 214 | Forgotten Footprints: Lost stories in the discovery of Antarctica | John Harrison | Quixote Expeditions |
| 215 | France and England in North America, Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World / The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century / La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West / The Old Regime in Canada | Francis Parkman | Goodreads 2 |
| 216 | From a Chinese City | CN Traveler | |
| 217 | Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition | Good Reads | |
| 218 | Full Circle | Kora | |
| 219 | Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker | Book Riot | |
| 220 | Giovanni Belzoni: Strong Man, Egyptologist | Colin Clair | Goodreads 2 |
| 221 | Going Solo | Roald Dahl | Gear Patrol |
| 222 | Gorge: My Journey Up Killimanjaro at 300 Pounds | Book Riot | |
| 223 | Grandma Gatewood’s Walk | Kora | |
| 224 | Greetings From Somewhere The Mystery of the Mosaic | Imagination Soup | |
| 225 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | Book Bub |
| 226 | Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter | Book Riot | |
| 227 | Happy Birthday, Sylvia Earle | National Geographic | |
| 228 | Hasty Pudding: Cooking in Colonial America | Loretta Frances Ichord and Jan Davey Ellis. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 229 | Healthy Beaches | National Geographic | |
| 230 | Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany | Book Riot | |
| 231 | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places | David Breashears | Art Of Manliness |
| 232 | Hindoo Holiday | CN Traveler | |
| 233 | History of the Conquest of Peru | William H. Prescott | Goodreads 2 |
| 234 | How Not to Run a B&B | Book Riot | |
| 235 | HW Tilman | Snow on the Equator | Mark Horrell |
| 236 | I See by My Outfit | CN Traveler | |
| 237 | Il Bel Centro: A Year in The Beautiful Center | Book Riot | |
| 238 | In Brightest Africa | Carl Akeley | Gear Patrol |
| 239 | In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors | Doug Stanton | Art Of Manliness |
| 240 | In Siberia | Colin Thubron | Goodreads 2 |
| 241 | In the Country of Country | CN Traveler | |
| 242 | In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette | Good Reads | |
| 243 | In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic | Good Reads | |
| 244 | India: A Million Mutinies Now | CN Traveler | |
| 245 | Into the Heart of Borneo | Redmond O’Hanlon | Mens Journal |
| 246 | Iron & Silk | CN Traveler | |
| 247 | Jaguars Ripped My Flesh | Book Riot | |
| 248 | Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man | Dale Peterson | Goodreads 2 |
| 249 | Join a Book Club | National Geographic | |
| 250 | Journey | Aaron Becker | Book Trust |
| 251 | Journey to Portugal | CN Traveler | |
| 252 | Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival | Yossi Ghinsberg | Art Of Manliness |
| 253 | Just a Little Run Around the World: 5 Years, 3 Packs of Wolves and 53 Pairs of Shoes | Kora | |
| 254 | K2: The Savage Mountain | Charles S Houston & Robert H. Bates | Art Of Manliness |
| 255 | King Solomon’s Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) | H. Rider Haggard | Goodreads 2 |
| 256 | Klondike | Explorers Pasage | |
| 257 | Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt | Kora | |
| 258 | Last Hours on Everest | Graham Hoyland | Goodreads 2 |
| 259 | Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians | CN Traveler | |
| 260 | Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849–1850 | CN Traveler | |
| 261 | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Kora | |
| 262 | Lewis and Clark | George Sullivan | Goodreads 2 |
| 263 | Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries | Kim MacQuarrie | Goodreads 2 |
| 264 | Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist | Book Riot | |
| 265 | Life on the Mississippi | CN Traveler | |
| 266 | Logbook for Grace | Robert Cushman Murphy | Quixote Expeditions |
| 267 | Lois on the Loose | Kora | |
| 268 | London Perceived | CN Traveler | |
| 269 | Lonely Planet Antarctica | Quixote Expeditions | |
| 270 | Lonely Planet Tasmania | UTAS | |
| 271 | Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | Good Reads | |
| 272 | Love your kora or your money back. | Kora | |
| 273 | Lucy’s Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor | Donald C. Johanson | Goodreads 2 |
| 274 | Macaulay’s Essays on Clive and Hastings | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Goodreads 2 |
| 275 | Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver | Stephen R. Bown | Goodreads 2 |
| 276 | Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation | Antonio Pigafetta | Goodreads 2 |
| 277 | Maidens’ Trip: A Wartime Adventure on the Grand Union Canal | Kora | |
| 278 | Mani | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Gear Patrol |
| 279 | Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu | Good Reads | |
| 280 | Mason & Dixon | Thomas Pynchon | Goodreads 2 |
| 281 | Maurice Herzog | Annapurna | Mark Horrell |
| 282 | Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage | Plimouth Plantation, National Geographic. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 283 | Measuring the World | Daniel Kehlmann | Goodreads 2 |
| 284 | Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun | Book Riot | |
| 285 | Miles From Nowhere: A Round The World Bicycle Adventure | Barbara Savage | Matadorn Network |
| 286 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | Book Bub |
| 287 | Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 | Fatherly | |
| 288 | Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills | Atlas & Boots | |
| 289 | Museum of Human Beings | Colin Sargent | Goodreads 2 |
| 290 | My Life as an Explorer | Sven Hedin | Art Of Manliness |
| 291 | My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine | Book Riot | |
| 292 | My Salinger Year | Book Riot | |
| 293 | My Siberian Year | Kora | |
| 294 | My Story as an American Au Paire in the Loir Valley | Book Riot | |
| 295 | My Travel Journal | Imagination Soup | |
| 296 | Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Great Mountaineering Classic | Atlas & Boots | |
| 297 | Narrative of Sojourner Truth | Kora | |
| 298 | Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History | Giles Milton | Goodreads 2 |
| 299 | Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays | John Muir | Goodreads 2 |
| 300 | News from Tartary | CN Traveler | |
| 301 | NG Live: The Tech Lab | National Geographic | |
| 302 | No Hurry To Get Home | Emily Hahn | Matadorn Network |
| 303 | No Mercy: A Journey into the Heart of the Congo | CN Traveler | |
| 304 | No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb | Atlas & Boots | |
| 305 | No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers | Barbara Hodgson | Goodreads 2 |
| 306 | No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks | Atlas & Boots | |
| 307 | No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 | Atlas & Boots | |
| 308 | Notes from the Century Before | CN Traveler | |
| 309 | Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West | Book Riot | |
| 310 | Of Whales and Men | R. B Robertson | Art Of Manliness |
| 311 | On Horseback Through Asia Minor | Frederick Burnaby | Art Of Manliness |
| 312 | On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon’s Perilous Peak | Atlas & Boots | |
| 313 | On The Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica | Gretchen Legler | Matadorn Network |
| 314 | On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite’s Most Iconic Climb | Atlas & Boots | |
| 315 | On The Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined | Book Riot | |
| 316 | Out and About: A First Book of Poems | Shirley Hughes | Book Trust |
| 317 | P.S. | Explorers Pasage | |
| 318 | Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Good Reads | |
| 319 | Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space | Good Reads | |
| 320 | Persian Pictures | Kora | |
| 321 | Pilgrim Cat | Carol Antoinette Peacock and Doris Ettlinger. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 322 | Postcards from the Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings | Atlas & Boots | |
| 323 | Power Plant Generates Energy from Solid Waste | National Geographic | |
| 324 | Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea | Book Riot | |
| 325 | Queen Bess | Kora | |
| 326 | Race the Wild series | Imagination Soup | |
| 327 | Race to the South Pole | Imagination Soup | |
| 328 | Rain Forest Relay | Imagination Soup | |
| 329 | Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River | Ellen Meloy | Matadorn Network |
| 330 | Recipe for Adventure #1 Naples! | Imagination Soup | |
| 331 | Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship | Martin W. Sandler | Goodreads 2 |
| 332 | Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia | Brian M. Fagan | Goodreads 2 |
| 333 | Riding the Iron Rooster | CN Traveler | |
| 334 | River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon | Good Reads | |
| 335 | River of Doubt | Candice Millard | Thought Catalog |
| 336 | River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze | Book Riot | |
| 337 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Book Bub |
| 338 | Rock and Roses | Book Riot | |
| 339 | Rome and a Villa | CN Traveler | |
| 340 | Roughing It | CN Traveler | |
| 341 | Running the Amazon | Joe Kane | Outside Online |
| 342 | Sailing Alone Around the World | Captain Joshua Slocum | Outside Online |
| 343 | Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy | Kate Waters and Russ Kendall. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 344 | Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan | Giles Milton | Goodreads 2 |
| 345 | Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia | CN Traveler | |
| 346 | Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl | Kate Waters and Russ Kendall. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 347 | Savanna Showdown | Imagination Soup | |
| 348 | Sea and Sardinia | CN Traveler | |
| 349 | Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man | Book Riot | |
| 350 | Seven Years in Tibet | Book Riot | |
| 351 | Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks | Patricia Fara | Goodreads 2 |
| 352 | Shackleton | Roland Huntford | Goodreads 2 |
| 353 | Shackleton’s Journey | William Grill | Book Trust |
| 354 | Shackletons Boat Journey | Frank Worsley | Quixote Expeditions |
| 355 | Shah of Shahs | CN Traveler | |
| 356 | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis | Timothy Egan | Goodreads 2 |
| 357 | Siren Land | CN Traveler | |
| 358 | Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii’s Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes | Isabella L. Bird | Matadorn Network |
| 359 | Skating to Antarctica | CN Traveler | |
| 360 | Skeletons on the Zahara | Dean King | Art Of Manliness |
| 361 | Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen | Book Riot | |
| 362 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion | The Guardian |
| 363 | Slowly Down the Ganges | CN Traveler | |
| 364 | Smithsonian Endless Explorations Level 4 Readers: World Wonders, Predators, Space Exploration, Natural Disasters, Ocean Habitats, Flight | Imagination Soup | |
| 365 | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory | Book Riot | |
| 366 | Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family and Getting Back on the Board | Book Riot | |
| 367 | South | Ernest Shackleton | Quixote Expeditions |
| 368 | South of Haunted Dreams: A Ride Through Slavery’s Old Back Yard | Book Riot | |
| 369 | Southern Baroque Art | CN Traveler | |
| 370 | Southern Lights | John Rymill | Quixote Expeditions |
| 371 | Space Below My Feet | Book Riot | |
| 372 | Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving | Joseph Bruchac and Greg Shed. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 373 | Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman’s Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific | Kora | |
| 374 | Survivors | David Long | Book Trust |
| 375 | Tales from the Queen of the Desert | Gertrude Bell | Goodreads 2 |
| 376 | Tapenum’s Day: A Wapanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times | Kate Waters and Russ Kendall. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 377 | Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Book Bub |
| 378 | Tasmanian Trail | UTAS | |
| 379 | The A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land | UTAS | |
| 380 | The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors | Book Riot | |
| 381 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | Book Bub |
| 382 | The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 | Pierre Berton | Goodreads 2 |
| 383 | The Art of Eating | M.F.K. Fisher | Thought Catalog |
| 384 | The Art of Travel | Alain de Botton | Gear Patrol |
| 385 | The Aviator’s Wife | Melanie Benjamin | Goodreads 2 |
| 386 | The Beach | Alex Garland | Book Bub |
| 387 | The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers | Book Riot | |
| 388 | The Birthday Boys | Beryl Bainbridge | Goodreads 2 |
| 389 | The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty | Caroline Alexander | Goodreads 2 |
| 390 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London | Book Bub |
| 391 | The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo | Jacob D’Ancona | Goodreads 2 |
| 392 | The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Atlas & Boots | |
| 393 | The Condition of the Working Class in England | Friedrich Engels | The Guardian |
| 394 | The Conquest of New Spain | Bernal Díaz del Castillo | Goodreads 2 |
| 395 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | Book Bub |
| 396 | The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles By Canoe To The Legendary City Of Timbuktu | Kora | |
| 397 | The Crystal Horizon: Everest – The First Solo Ascent | Atlas & Boots | |
| 398 | The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America’s Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas | Todd Balf | Art Of Manliness |
| 399 | The Devil’s Cup | Stewart Lee Allen | Thought Catalog |
| 400 | The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love | Book Riot | |
| 401 | The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe | Kora | |
| 402 | The Discovery of the Americas | Betsy Maestro and Giulio Maestro. | Delightful Childrens Books |
| 403 | The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen | Howard Carter | Goodreads 2 |
| 404 | The Emperor | CN Traveler | |
| 405 | The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition | Good Reads | |
| 406 | The Essential Lewis and Clark | Landon Y. Jones | Goodreads 2 |
| 407 | The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific: As Told | Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1779 | The Guardian |
| 408 | The Explorer | Katherine Rundell | Book Trust |
| 409 | The Fearful Void | CN Traveler | |
| 410 | The Field Guide to Tasmanian Produce | UTAS | |
| 411 | The First Crossing of Greenland | Fridtjof Nansen | Five Books |
| 412 | The Florida of the Inca | Inca Garcilaso de la Vega | Goodreads 2 |
| 413 | The Frozen Deep | Wilkie Collins | Goodreads 2 |
| 414 | The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu | Anthony Sattin | Goodreads 2 |
| 415 | The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent | Atlas & Boots | |
| 416 | The Gold of Troy | Pierre Stephen Robert Payne | Goodreads 2 |
| 417 | The Great Voyages of Zheng He | Fatherly | |
| 418 | The Green Hills of Africa | Ernest Hemingway | Gear Patrol |
| 419 | The Histories | CN Traveler | |
| 420 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | Book Bub |
| 421 | The Hundred Year Walk: An Armenian Oddysey | Book Riot | |
| 422 | The Ice Master | Good Reads | |
| 423 | The Impossible Country | CN Traveler | |
| 424 | The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World | Good Reads | |
| 425 | The Journals | James Cook | Goodreads 2 |
| 426 | The Kid Who Climbed Everest | Bear Grylls | Art Of Manliness |
| 427 | The Kingdom | Explorers Pasage | |
| 428 | The Kon-Tiki Expedition | Explorers Pasage | |
| 429 | The Last Expedition | Charles Pearson | Thought Catalog |
| 430 | The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to His Death, edited | Horace Waller | The Guardian |
| 431 | The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole | Good Reads | |
| 432 | The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier | Atlas & Boots | |
| 433 | The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope | Kora | |
| 434 | The Life of Gordon, Major-General, R. E., C. B: Turkish field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order | Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger | Goodreads 2 |
| 435 | The Living Mountain | Kora | |
| 436 | The Long Way | Bernard Moitessier | Outside Online |
| 437 | The Lost City of the Monkey God | Good Reads | |
| 438 | The Lycian Shore | CN Traveler | |
| 439 | The Making of MONA | UTAS | |
| 440 | The Man Eaters of Kumaon | Jim Corbett | Art Of Manliness |
| 441 | The Man Eaters of Tsavo | Colonel Henry Patterson | Art Of Manliness |
| 442 | The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage | Good Reads | |
| 443 | The Marsh Arabs | Wilfred Thesiger | Art Of Manliness |
| 444 | The Martian | Good Reads | |
| 445 | The Ministry of Guidance Invites You To Not Stay: An American Family in Iran | Book Riot | |
| 446 | The Motorcycle Diaries | Book Riot | |
| 447 | The Muses Are Heard | CN Traveler | |
| 448 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches | CN Traveler | |
| 449 | The New Granta Book of Travel | Gear Patrol | |
| 450 | The North-West Passage | Roald Amundsen | Five Books |
| 451 | The Odyssey | Homer | Book Bub |
| 452 | The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | Goodreads 2 |
| 453 | The Pale Abyssinian | Miles Bredin | Goodreads 2 |
| 454 | The Pillars of Hercules | CN Traveler | |
| 455 | The Pine Barrens | CN Traveler | |
| 456 | The Piri Reis Map of 1513 | Gregory C. McIntosh | Goodreads 2 |
| 457 | The Places in Between | CN Traveler | |
| 458 | The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club | Alex Bell | Book Trust |
| 459 | The Pursuit of the Pesky Pizza Pirate! | Imagination Soup | |
| 460 | The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold | Frank Kryza | Art Of Manliness |
| 461 | The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code | Margalit Fox | Goodreads 2 |
| 462 | The Rings of Saturn | CN Traveler | |
| 463 | The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan | CN Traveler | |
| 464 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | MPORA |
| 465 | The Road to Oxiana | CN Traveler | |
| 466 | The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands | Nicholas Clapp | Goodreads 2 |
| 467 | The Rugged Road | Kora | |
| 468 | The Sea Runners | Ivan Doig | Mens Journal |
| 469 | The Sewing Circle of Herat | Kora | |
| 470 | The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific | Book Riot | |
| 471 | The Songlines | CN Traveler | |
| 472 | The South American Tour | Kora | |
| 473 | The Spirit of St. Louis | Charles Lindbergh | Gear Patrol |
| 474 | The Storied Ice | Joan Boothe | Quixote Expeditions |
| 475 | The Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | Book Bub |
| 476 | The Totem Pole: And a Whole New Adventure | Book Riot | |
| 477 | The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre | Atlas & Boots | |
| 478 | The Travels of Ibn Battutah | Ibn Battutah | Goodreads 2 |
| 479 | The Tutankhamun Deception: The True Story of the Mummy’s Curse | Gerald O’Farrell | Goodreads 2 |
| 480 | The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America | Anonymous | Art Of Manliness |
| 481 | The Voyage of the Beagle | Charles Darwin | Gear Patrol |
| 482 | The Voyage of the Pourquois-Pas | J B Charcot | Quixote Expeditions |
| 483 | The Voyages of Jacques Cartier | Jacques Cartier | Goodreads 2 |
| 484 | The Way of the World | Nicholas Bouvier | Gear Patrol |
| 485 | The White Spider | Atlas & Boots | |
| 486 | The Wild Places | Book Riot | |
| 487 | The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe | Book Riot | |
| 488 | The Wright Brothers: How They Invented The Airplane | Fatherly | |
| 489 | The Year of Decision 1846 | Bernard DeVoto | Goodreads 2 |
| 490 | The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Countries | Book Riot | |
| 491 | Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue | CN Traveler | |
| 492 | Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers: On the 8,000-metre Peak Circus in Pakistan’s Karakoram mountains | Atlas & Boots | |
| 493 | Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home | Book Riot | |
| 494 | This Thing of Darkness | Harry Thompson | Goodreads 2 |
| 495 | Through Town and Jungle | Kora | |
| 496 | Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart | Book Riot | |
| 497 | TIE: Alive | Piers Paul Read | Outside Online |
| 498 | To a Distant Island | CN Traveler | |
| 499 | To Be A Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls or Just Taking on a 5k Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place) | Book Riot | |
| 500 | To the Edge of the World: Book I | Harry Thompson | Goodreads 2 |
| 501 | Tom Crean’s Rabbit: A True Story from Scott’s Last Voyage | Meredith Hooper | Book Trust |
| 502 | Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest | Jamling Tenzing Norgay | Art Of Manliness |
| 503 | Travels and Other Writings | William Bartram | Goodreads 2 |
| 504 | Travels in Arabia Deserta | CN Traveler | |
| 505 | Travels in the Interior of Africa | CN Traveler | |
| 506 | Travels into the Interior of Africa | Mungo Park | Goodreads 2 |
| 507 | Travels Through France and Italy | CN Traveler | |
| 508 | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes | CN Traveler | |
| 509 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Book Bub |
| 510 | Trespassers on the Roof of the World | Peter Hopkirk | Art Of Manliness |
| 511 | Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Been-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland | Book Riot | |
| 512 | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | Jan Morris | Matadorn Network |
| 513 | Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain | Heinrich Schliemann | Goodreads 2 |
| 514 | True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole | Bruce Henderson | Art Of Manliness |
| 515 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Good Reads | |
| 516 | Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery | Book Riot | |
| 517 | Under the Tuscan Sun: A Home in Italy | Book Riot | |
| 518 | Upton Sinclair Dies | National Geographic | |
| 519 | Video Night in Kathmandu | Pico Iyer | Gear Patrol |
| 520 | Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North | Book Riot | |
| 521 | What I Talk About When I Talk about Running | Book Riot | |
| 522 | What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding | Book Riot | |
| 523 | Where’d You Go Bernadette, | Maria Semple | Quixote Expeditions |
| 524 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | Book Riot | |
| 525 | White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic | Stephen R. Bown | Goodreads 2 |
| 526 | Who Was Ferdinand Magellan | Fatherly | |
| 527 | Wilderness Act is Signed into Law | National Geographic | |
| 528 | Without You, There is No Us: My Time with The Sons of North Korea’s Elite | Book Riot | |
| 529 | Wrong About Japan | CN Traveler | |
| 530 | Year of Yes | Book Riot | |
| 531 | Yoga Bitch: One Woman’s Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment | Book Riot | |
| 532 | You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer | Imagination Soup | |
25 Best Books About Explorers and Exploring Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| Art Of Manliness | 50 Best Non-fiction Adventure Books | The Art of Manliness |
| Atlas & Boots | 25 best mountaineering books ever written | Atlas & Boots |
| Book Bub | 18 Classic Adventure Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down – BookBub |
| Book Riot | 100 Must-Read Nonfiction Adventure Books – Book Riot |
| Book Trust | 10 thrilling books for budding explorers, chosen by Vashti Hardy … |
| CN Traveler | The 86 Greatest Travel Books of All Time – Condé Nast Traveler |
| Delightful Childrens Books | Early Explorers and Colonial Times – Delightful Children’s Books |
| Explorers Pasage | Top 9 Greatest Books On Adventure – The Explorer’s Passage |
| Fatherly | The Best Books About Explorers For Kids In 2016 | Fatherly |
| Five Books | The Best Books on Polar Exploration | Five Books |
| Gear Patrol | 30 Best Travel & Adventure Books – Gear Patrol |
| Good Reads | Popular Exploration Books – Goodreads |
| Goodreads 2 | The Great Explorers (140 books) – Goodreads |
| Imagination Soup | A Wanderlust Celebration! Children’s Books with Geography and … |
| Kora | The ultimate list of women’s adventure books | Women’s history month … |
| Mark Horrell | 5 great books about mountain exploration – Mark Horrell |
| Matadorn Network | 20 of the most important travel books written by women – Matador … |
| Mens Journal | The 50 Greatest Adventure Books – Men’s Journal |
| MPORA | The 10 Best Survival Books Which All Would-Be Adventurers Should … |
| National Geographic | Explorers Recommend – National Geographic Society |
| Outside Online | Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer | Outside Online |
| Quixote Expeditions | Best Antarctica Books – Quixote Expeditions |
| The Guardian | Max Jones’s top 10 books about exploration | Books | The Guardian |
| Thought Catalog | 7 Incredible Books On Exploration That Will Fuel Your Wanderlust … |
| UTAS | The Explorer’s Top Ten: Tasmanian Books for Every Traveller’s Hand … |
