Exploration Books

• Africa
  • The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
  • The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
  • Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park
• Antarctica
  • Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by Frank Worsley
  • Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers, 1772-1922 by Michael Rosove
  • South: Journals of His Last Expedition to Antarctica by Ernest Shackleton
  • The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 by Ernest Shackleton
  • The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival by Douglas Mawson
  • The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
• Arabia
  • Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
• Asia
  • The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels by Freya Stark
• Australia
  • Cooper's Creek by Alan Moorehead
• General
  • Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude. and Outright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming
• North America
  • Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
• South America
  • The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
• Space
  • Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins
• The Arctic
  • In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic by Valerian Albanov
  • The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 by Pierre Berton