Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 529–576

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

Origins

Lewis Dartnell

Ascent

Sir Chris Bonington

Endurance

Alfred Lansing

Shackleton

Ranulph Fiennes

The Wide Wide Sea

Hampton Sides

An Unsung Hero

Michael Smith

Shadow Divers

Robert Kurson

Endurance

Louis Rudd

Legion of the Lost

Jaime Salazar

South of the Border

Tiffani Burkett

Hit the Road, Jac!

Jacqui Furneaux

The Land Beyond

Leon McCarron

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

In the Spell of the Barkley

Michiel Panhuysen

The Endurance Artist

Jared Beasley

One Day as a Tiger

John Porter

Amazon Woman

Darcy Gaechter

Limitless

Nuala Moore

The Next Port

Heyward Coleman

The Wave

Susan Casey

Aquanaut

Rick Stanton

Sailing Alone

Richard J. King

Winterdance

Gary Paulsen

Antarctic Tears

Aaron Linsdau

The Lost City of Z

David Grann

A Life on the Edge

Jim Whittaker

In the Shadow of the Mountain

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

The Sun Is a Compass

Caroline Van Hemert

One's Company

Peter Fleming

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