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  • John Wilson The best books on the Lost Franklin Expedition Book cover of Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search Book cover of Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time Book cover of Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition Book cover of James Fitzjames: The Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition Book cover of Unravelling the Franklin Mystery 5: Inuit Testimony
  • Buddy Levy The best books on polar exploration, expeditions, and survival Book cover of Endurance Book cover of In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Book cover of Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night Book cover of Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Book cover of The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
  • Ken McGoogan The best books about what happened to the lost Franklin Expedition Book cover of Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition Book cover of Portrait of Jane: A Life of Lady Franklin Book cover of Unravelling the Franklin Mystery 5: Inuit Testimony Book cover of May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition Book cover of The Journal of Jens Munk 1619-1620
  • Matthew Restall The best books on Christopher Columbus and his world Book cover of Columbus Book cover of The Worlds of Christopher Columbus Book cover of Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America Book cover of The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library Book cover of Sinking Columbus
  • Brenda Clough The best books about British explorers freezing to death in Antarctica Book cover of The Worst Journey in the World Book cover of The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole Book cover of Scott's Last Journey Book cover of South!: The Story of Shackleton's, 1914-1917 Book cover of The Coldest March
  • Larry E. Morris The best books on Lewis and Clark, their lives, and the impact of their expedition Book cover of The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness Book cover of William Clark and the Shaping of the West Book cover of The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery Book cover of In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark Book cover of Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
  • David Boyle The best books on the European re-discovery of America Book cover of The Columbus Myth: Did men of Bristol reach America before Columbus? Book cover of The European Discovery of America: Volume 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 Book cover of Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America Book cover of European Approaches to North America, 1450-1640 Book cover of Many Landfalls of John Cabot
  • Bonnie J. Fladung The best books about obsession with African wildlife and adventure Book cover of Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm Book cover of Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals Book cover of The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird Book cover of Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure Book cover of West with the Night: A Memoir
  • Max Adams The best books about the Viking period Book cover of The Northmen's Fury: A History of the Viking World Book cover of The Vinland Sagas Book cover of Vikings of the Irish Sea Book cover of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman Book cover of The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings
  • Ben Wiener The best non-business books that teach business strategy Book cover of David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Book cover of The Science of Hitting Book cover of The European Discovery of America: Volume 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 Book cover of Endurance Book cover of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • Roff Smith The best travel books from the golden age of globetrotting Book cover of Brazilian Adventure Book cover of Eothen, or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Book cover of Wind, Sand and Stars Book cover of The Worst Journey in the World Book cover of The Wheels of Chance: If You Fell Down Yesterday, Stand Up Today.
  • Leilani Raashida Henry The best books for a taste of polar exploration, world travel, and adventure Book cover of Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure Book cover of First Man: Reimagining Matthew Henson Book cover of African Menagerie: A Celebration of Nature Book cover of Knitting in Antarctica: 28 Beautiful Hat Patterns with Stories of Life 'On the Ice' Book cover of Smiler's Bones
  • Roy M. Griffis The best books about history that read like the most gripping fiction you’ve ever experienced Book cover of The Last Days of the Incas Book cover of Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya Book cover of Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II Book cover of The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--And the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation Book cover of Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
  • Cynthia Reeves The best novels about survival in extreme polar environments Book cover of The Brief History of the Dead Book cover of The Voyage of the Narwhal Book cover of The Flight of the Eagle Book cover of Dark Matter Book cover of The Solitude of Thomas Cave
  • Andrew Hadfield The best books on early English travel writing Book cover of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 Book cover of Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World Book cover of Madoc: The Making of a Myth Book cover of Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery Book cover of Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
  • Jean-Philippe Soulé The best books about exploration, endurance, and world expeditions Book cover of Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration Book cover of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Book cover of Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival Book cover of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story Book cover of Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak
  • Laura Galloway The best life changing books on life in the Arctic (and other cold climates!) Book cover of Stolen Book cover of A Woman in the Polar Night Book cover of This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland Book cover of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe Book cover of Alaska
  • Andreas Kluth The best historical biographies to help you make sense of your own life Book cover of Endurance Book cover of Caesar: Life of a Colossus Book cover of The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Book cover of Einstein: His Life and Universe Book cover of Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
  • Benjamin Hoffmann The best books about forbidden territories Book cover of Heart of Darkness Book cover of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Book cover of The Lost World Book cover of Journey to the Center of the Earth Book cover of The Man Who Would Be King
  • Dane Kennedy The best books about exploration and cross-cultural encounters Book cover of Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact Book cover of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Book cover of The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent Book cover of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Book cover of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
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