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Farthest North

By Nansen, Fridtjof

Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

By Robert Kurson

The Life of José María Sobral: Scientist, Diarist, and Pioneer in Antarctica (Springer Biographies)

By Tahan, Mary R.

Endeavour: The Story Of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage (Voyages)

By Peter Aughton, Caroline Brooke, Ken Wilson

The Ice :

By Pyne, Stephen J.

A A Fire on the Moon (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Mailer, Norman

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By Spencer, Charles

Yuri Gagarin: The First Spaceman

By Southgate, Vix

Living Dangerously: The Autobiography Of Ranulph Fiennes

By Fiennes Bt OBE, Sir Ranulph

The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

By Nicol, John, Flannery, Tim

The riddle and the Knight: in search of Sir John Mandeville

By Milton, Giles.

I May be Some Time-Csd

By Spufford, Francis

Explorations: An Autobiography (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Ballard, Robert

Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

By Fiennes Bt OBE, Sir Ranulph

The Vikings

By Roesdahl, Else

A Book of Voyages

By O’Brian, Patrick

I May Be Some Time

By Spufford, Francis

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

By Holmes, Richard

Facing the Frozen Ocean

By Grylls, Bear

Monsters: History's most evil men and women

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon

To the Source of the Yangtze

By Bell, Dick

The Blue Nile

By Moorehead, Alan

A World Lit Only by Fire

By Manchester, WILLIAM

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired ‘Moby Dick’

By Philbrick, Nathaniel

The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer

By Bredin, Miles

A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire

By Murray, Nicholas

Thesiger

By Asher, Michael

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

By Millas, Juan Jose, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bunstead, Thomas, Hahn, Daniel

Embassy to the Eastern Courts: America's Secret First Pivot Toward Asia, 1832 37

By Andrew C. A. Jampoler

Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia

By Brooke, Alan, Brandon, David