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What are your favorite adventure biographies?

Even before fantasy and science fiction were genres we had adventure biographies. Travelers would journey into the unknown and share their heroic tale with the world (or someone else would in some cases). Whether you've experienced a call to adventure or prefer to read tales from others, what adventure biographies have stuck with you?

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
  • Jon Krakauer
4.26432 reads
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
  • Bill Bryson
3.99380 reads
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
  • Cheryl Strayed
3.89400 reads
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
  • Elizabeth Gilbert
3.31424 reads
Into the Wild
Into the Wild
  • Jon Krakauer
  • Christopher Johnson McCandless
3.83660 reads
Magellan
Magellan
  • Stefan Zweig
4.56 reads
Seven Years in Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet
  • Heinrich Harrer
4.0535 reads
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
  • Alfred Lansing
4.49201 reads
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
  • Edward Abbey
3.9464 reads
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
  • David Grann
3.75164 reads
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
  • Jedidiah Jenkins
3.6822 reads
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
  • William Finnegan
4.2771 reads
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
  • Joe Simpson
449 reads
Man-eaters of Kumaon
Man-eaters of Kumaon
  • Jim Corbett
3.96 reads
The histories
The histories
  • Herodotus
4.1313 reads
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
  • Tony Horwitz
4.148 reads
A Woman's Trip to Alaska
A Woman's Trip to Alaska
  • Septima Maria Collis
4.51 read
Shackleton: A Biography
Shackleton: A Biography
  • Ranulph Fiennes
4.67 reads
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
  • Caroline Van Hemert
4.25 reads
A Voyage Long and Strange
A Voyage Long and Strange
  • Tony Horwitz
41 read
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
  • Stephen R. Bown
4.255 reads
Wavewalker
Wavewalker
  • Suzanne Heywood
4.175 reads
Life of Pi
Life of Pi
  • Yann Martel
3.831,023 reads
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • T.E. Lawrence
4.2514 reads
Phenomenal
Phenomenal
  • Leigh Ann Henion
2.333 reads