Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 481–528

Accounts of going somewhere hard to reach: polar crossings, desert journeys, long river trips and first routes up a mountain. It covers classic expedition narratives, modern adventure writing and the histories of exploration, along with practical books for people planning journeys of their own.

For the cold end of the map see Polar books; for the high ground, Mountains; for water, Rivers.

Writing on exploration

The Lawless Roads

Graham Greene

Into the Crocodile Nest

Benedict Allen

American Notes

Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham

Lonesome Traveler

Jack Kerouac

The Danakil Diary

Wilfred Thesiger

Congo Journey

Redmond O'Hanlon

The Kon-Tiki Expedition

Thor Heyerdahl

My Kenya Days

Wilfred Thesiger

The Turkish Embassy Letters

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anita Desai

In Xanadu : A Quest

William Dalrymple

Into the Heart of Borneo

Redmond O'Hanlon

West With The Night

Beryl Markham

Italian Journey 1786-1788

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Junglekeeper

Paul Rosolie

Almost Human

Lee Berger

Climbing and mountaineering

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