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Title Year Ratings Rating
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
Biography , Nonfiction , History , Travel , Biography Memoir , Womens , Adventure , Book Club
Georgina Howell
2006 3.4K 3.98
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Adventure , Survival , Medical , Travel , Book Club
Jerri Nielsen
1996 3.8K 3.98
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
Travel , Nonfiction , Adventure , History , Memoir , Biography , Asia
Alexandra David-Néel
1927 2.3K 3.98
The Places in Between
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Biography , Politics , Adventure
Rory Stewart
2004 19.5K 3.98
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
Travel , Nonfiction , Africa , History , Adventure , Memoir , Biography
Tim Butcher
2007 11.8K 3.98
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
Travel , Nonfiction , Morocco , Memoir , Africa , Biography , Adventure , Book Club
Tahir Shah
2006 8.3K 3.97
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey
Biography , Nonfiction , Travel , Science , Memoir , History , Adventure
Ralph Leighton
1991 1.8K 3.97
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Nonfiction , Travel , History , Memoir , Biography , Adventure , Nature
Isabella Lucy Bird
1879 3.6K 3.96
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Food , Adventure , Biography Memoir , Biography , Book Club
Ann Vanderhoof
2003 5.6K 3.96
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance
Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Survival , Audiobook , Biography , Historical
Jennifer Armstrong
1998 4.1K 3.95
If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, "King of the Caribbean Pirates"
History , Nonfiction , Pirates , Biography , Historical , Adventure , World History
Richard Sanders
2007 1.3K 3.95
Travels
Nonfiction , Travel , Biography , Memoir , Autobiography , Adventure , Biography Memoir
Michael Crichton
1988 9.7K 3.95
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , Audiobook , Nature , Book Club
Jedidiah Jenkins
2018 22.0K 3.94
360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Adventure , Education , Parenting
John Higham
2009 1.4K 3.94
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
Nonfiction , Adventure , Mountaineering , Memoir , Travel , Survival , Biography
Jim Davidson
2011 1.9K 3.94
Tracks
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Australia , Biography , Nature
Robyn Davidson
1980 16.9K 3.93
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Nonfiction , Survival , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , Nature , Audiobook
Donn Fendler
2013 3.5K 3.93
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Australia , Biography , Nature
Robyn Davidson
1980 16.9K 3.93
Kamikaze Kangaroos!: A trip around Oz in a van called Rusty
Travel , Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Australia , Adventure , Biography
Tony James Slater
2014 2.1K 3.92
Looking for Alaska
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Nature , Biography , Biography Memoir
Peter Jenkins
2001 1.6K 3.92
Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , History , Adventure , Nature , Biography
Jonathan Raban
1999 1.9K 3.91
That Bear Ate My Pants!: Will Boy Become Man? Or Will Boy Become Breakfast...
Nonfiction , Travel , Humor , Memoir , Biography , Animals , Adventure
Tony James Slater
2011 4.2K 3.90
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
History , Nonfiction , Adventure , Survival , Memoir , Biography , Maritime
Owen Chase
1821 1.4K 3.90
Queen of the Falls
Picture Books , Biography , Nonfiction , Childrens , History , Adventure , Biography Memoir
Chris Van Allsburg
2011 4.4K 3.90
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Travel , Biography , Audiobook , Historical , Book Club
David Grann
2009 104.3K 3.90
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
History , Nonfiction , Pirates , Biography , Audiobook , Adventure , Historical
Stephan Talty
2007 3.8K 3.88
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
History , Nonfiction , Adventure , Biography , Survival , Travel , Historical
Anthony Brandt
2010 1.0K 3.87
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Biography , Survival , Audiobook , Travel
David Roberts
2013 4.8K 3.87
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Travel , Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Biography , Adventure , Biography Memoir , Book Club
J. Maarten Troost
2003 25.7K 3.87
America Unchained: A Freewheeling Roadtrip in Search of Non-Corporate USA
Nonfiction , Travel , Humor , Comedy , Memoir , Adventure , Biography
Dave Gorman
2007 2.1K 3.86
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
Travel , Nonfiction , Humor , Memoir , Audiobook , Adventure , Biography
J. Maarten Troost
2006 13.8K 3.86
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Travel , Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Memoir , Biography , Travelogue , Book Club
Mark Adams
2011 20.2K 3.85
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , Travel
Linda Greenlaw
1999 5.8K 3.85
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
History , Nonfiction , Pirates , Biography , Adventure , Historical , Audiobook
Richard Zacks
2002 2.6K 3.84
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Adventure , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , Book Club
Rita Golden Gelman
2001 17.4K 3.84
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Nonfiction , Biography , Memoir , Adventure , Survival , Autobiography , Outdoors
Aron Ralston
2004 23.1K 3.84
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
History , Nonfiction , Africa , Biography , Audiobook , Adventure , Travel
Candice Millard
2022 15.6K 3.84
French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley (Book 1)
Travel , Memoir , Nonfiction , France , Biography , Contemporary , Adventure
Linda Kovic-Skow
2012 1.1K 3.83
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
Travel , Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Iran , Memoir , Biography
Freya Stark
1934 1.2K 3.82
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , China , Asia , Biography , Adventure , Book Club
Susan Jane Gilman
2009 8.7K 3.82
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
History , Nonfiction , American History , Audiobook , Historical , Biography , Adventure , Book Club
David McCullough
2019 26.1K 3.81
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , Adventure , Biography , Biography Memoir , Chick Lit , Book Club
Rachel Friedman
2011 4.1K 3.80
The Last American Man
Nonfiction , Biography , Nature , Biography Memoir , Memoir , Adventure , Outdoors , Book Club
Elizabeth Gilbert
2002 11.4K 3.80
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Biography , History , Nonfiction , Travel , Adventure , Biography Memoir , Womens , Book Club
Janet Wallach
1996 6.0K 3.80
Adrift: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Adventure , Survival , Travel , Audiobook
Tami Oldham Ashcraft
1998 5.7K 3.75
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
Nonfiction , Travel , Memoir , Biography , Nature , Adventure , Autobiography
Mireya Mayor
2010 1.0K 3.75
I Grew My Boobs in China (Sihpromatum #1)
Travel , Nonfiction , Memoir , China , Biography , Asia , Adventure
Savannah Grace
2012 1.7K 3.74
When I Fell From the Sky
Nonfiction , Memoir , Biography , Survival , Biography Memoir , Autobiography , Adventure
Juliane Koepcke
2011 3.4K 3.73
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Nonfiction , History , Travel , Biography , Adventure , Historical , Biography Memoir , Book Club
Matthew Goodman
2013 6.4K 3.73
Illegal
Memoir , Travel , Nonfiction , Love , Coming Of Age , Adventure , Biography
John Dennehy
2017 1.2K 3.73