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The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

1912 ★ 4.0

Pastwatch

Orson Scott Card

1996 ★ 2.8

Heimskringla; Lives/Saga of the Norse Kings

Snorri Sturluson

1633 ★ 4.6

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

1996 ★ 3.9

My Name Is York

Elizabeth Van Steenwyk

1997 ★ 3.0

A voyage long and strange

Tony Horwitz

2008 ★ 3.7

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

Jennifer L. Armstrong

1998 ★ 2.8

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean

James Cook

1784 ★ 4.0

Léon l'Africain

Amin Maalouf

1986 ★ 4.0

They came before Columbus

Ivan Van Sertima

2003 ★ 5.0

The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada

Francis Parkman

1870 ★ 3.7

Icebound

Leonard F. Guttridge

1986 ★ 2.7

The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft

Hubert Howe Bancroft

1882 ★ 3.6

Fingerprints of the gods

Graham Hancock

1995 ★ 4.4

The discovery of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

1946 ★ 3.9

South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

1920 ★ 4.0

Dark Matter

Michelle Paver

2010 ★ 4.1

Water music

T. Coraghessan Boyle

1981 ★ 4.5

Ice Station

Matthew Reilly

1999 ★ 4.2

Os Lusíadas

Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho

1572 ★ 4.6

Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:

Charles Darwin

1846 ★ 5.0

The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations

Jack Beeching, Edmund Goldsmid, Richard David et al.

1589 ★ 5.0

Columbus and Other Cannibals

Jack Forbes - undifferentiated, Jack D. Forbes, Guillermo Siminiani et al.

2008 ★ 4.3

The King's Fifth

Scott O’Dell

1966 ★ 3.7

Endurance

Elena Grau, Alfred Lansing

1998 ★ 4.6

Into Africa

Martin Dugard

2003 ★ 4.0

1493

Charles C. Mann

2011 ★ 4.2

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

1986 ★ 3.7

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

1960 ★ 3.6

The Lost City of Z

David Grann, James Gray

2009 ★ 3.8

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