Books about exploration

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

Boundless : Adventures in the Northwest Passage

Kathleen Winter

Brazilian Adventure

Peter Fleming

Buffalo Ballad: On the Trail of an American Icon

Heidi Koch, Hans-Jurgen Koch

Captain James Cook

Rob Mundle

Catfish and Mandala

Andrew Pham

Caves and Cave Life : 79

Philip Chapman

Challenging the Pacific

Maud Fontenoy

Chasing the Devil : On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields

Tim Butcher

Chimpanzee Travels : On and Off the Road in Africa

Dale Peterson

China Road : One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China

Rob Gifford

Coffee First, Then the World

Jenny Graham

Coffee First, Then the World : One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

Jenny Graham

Come Fly the World : The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace

Julia Cooke

Congo Journey

Redmond O'Hanlon

Continental Drifter : Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist

Tim Moore

Country Driving : A Chinese Road Trip

Peter Hessler

Crazy River : A Plunge into Africa

Richard Grant

Crossing the Congo : Over Land and Water in a Hard Place

Mike Martin, Chloe Baker, Charlie Hatch-Barnwell

Cry of the Kalahari

Delia Owens

Curse of the Labrador Duck : My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction

Glen Chilton

Dark Star Safari : Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Paul Theroux

Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure

Dave Gorman

Deep : Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

James Nestor

Deep Cuba : The Inside Story of an American Oceanographic Expedition

Bill Belleville

Desert Soul : A John Murray Journey

Isabelle Eberhardt

Discover North Korea

Dolphin Diaries : My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas

Dr.Denise L. Herzing

Don't Look Behind You! : True Tales of a Safari Guide

Peter Allison

Dreaming of Jupiter

Ted Simon

Eastern Horizons : Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Award

Levison Wood

Eels : An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish

James Prosek

Elephant Complex

John Gimlette

Elephants in the Hourglass : A Journey of Reckoning and Hope Along the Himalaya

Kim Frank

Elsewhere : One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel

Rosita Boland

Empire of the East : Travels in Indonesia

Norman Lewis

Empires and Exploration : Richard Francis Burton's Travels in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Marshall C. Eakin

Bradford Washburn, An Extraordinary Life : The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon

Bradford Washburn

Challenge of K2: a History of the Savage Mountain

Richard Sale

Challenge of the North Cascade

Beckey

Chasing Denali : The Sourdoughs, Cheechakos, and Frauds behind the Most Unbelievable Feat in Mountaineering

Jonathan Waterman

Climb to the Lost World : Through dense Guyanian rainforest to the towering summit of Mount Roraima

Hamish MacInnes

Clouds from Both Sides : The story of the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre peak

Julie Tullis, Peter Gillman

Continental Divide : A History of American Mountaineering

Maurice Isserman

Death Zone

Matt Dickinson

Dreams of a Refugee : From the Middle East to Mount Everest

Mostafa Salameh

Elusive Summits : Four Expeditions in the Karakoram

Victor Saunders

Discovering Submerged Stories : A Personal Dive into Britain's History

Duncan Ross, Andy Torbet