Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 337–384

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

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez, Robert Macfarlane

The Condor and the Cows

Christopher Isherwood

The Missionaries

Norman Lewis

Travels into Bokhara

Alexander Burnes

Tristes Tropiques

Claude Levi-Strauss

Inca Kola

Matthew Parris

Climbing and mountaineering

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