Great Explorations

Fiction

The Birthday Boys
by Beryl Bainbridge

The Voyage of the Narwhal
by Andrea Barrett

Water Music
by T. Coraghessan Boyle 

A Watery Grave
by Joan Druett

Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea
by Diane Glancy

I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
by Brian Hall

The Journeyer
by Gary Jennings

The Navigator of New York
by Wayne Johnston

The True Account: Concerning a Vermont Gentleman's Race to the Pacific Against and Exploration of the Western American Continent Coincident to the Expedition of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
by Howard Frank Mosher

Sign-talker: The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by James Alexander Thom

To the Edge of the World
by Harry Thompson

The Collector of Worlds
by Iliya Troyanov

Snowbound
by Richard S. Wheeler

Nonfiction

Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss
by Bradford Matsen  551.46 MATT

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
by Laurence Bergreen  910 BER

The Explorer's Eye: First-Hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration edited by Fergus Fleming & Annabel Merullo  910 EXP

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz  910 HOR

As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure edited by George Plimpton 
910.4 AS

Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
by Martin W. Sandler  910.452 SAN

Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration
by Fergus Fleming  910.9 FLE

True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole
by Bruce Henderson  910.91632 HEN

Arctic Sun on My Path: The True Story of America's Last Great Polar Explorer
by Willie Knutsen and Will C. Knutsen  910.91632 KNU

Polar Dream
by Helen Thayer 910.91632 THA

The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
by Ian Baker  915.1 BAK

To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
by Pat Shipman  916.7 SHI

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann  918.11 GRA

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing  919.89 LAN

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
by Martin Dugard  967.02 DUG

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen E. Ambrose  973.46 AMB

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard  981.13 MIL

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
by Mark Adams  985.37 ADA

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
by Gretel Ehrlich  998.200922 EHR

Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook and His Rivals in the South Pacific
by Geoffrey Blainey  B Cook

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
by Diana & Michael Preston  B DAMPIER

Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
by Harry Kelsey  B DRAKE

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