18 books like Endurance

What to read after Endurance — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 1922 · ★ 3.9 · 591p · ≈ 19h · Challenging The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning of human suffering under extreme conditions. ---------- Contains: Worst Journey in the World:… Shares: Travel, History

South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton · 1919 · ★ 4.2 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "One of the most harrowing survival stories of all time"—Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect StormVeteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own first-hand account of this epic adventure.As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to… Shares: Shackleton, Antarctica, Discovery and exploration, Journeys

The heart of the Antarctic Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton · 1909 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Challenging The Heart of the Antarctic, Illustrated by Ernest Shackleton. THE scientific results of the expedition cannot be stated in detail in this book. The expert members in each branch have contributed to the appendices articles which summarise what has been done in the domains of geology, biology, magnetism, meteorology, physics, &c. I will simply indicate here some of the more important features of… Shares: Shackleton, Antarctica, Discovery and exploration, Journeys

Journey to the shores of the Polar sea, in 1819-20-21-22 John Franklin · 1823 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Sir John Franklin's Narrative of the Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822 recounts a hair-raising adventure of the "Golden Age of Discovery", the period from 1800 to 1847 when sailing ships from around the world feverishly searched for a Northwest Passage through the Arctic. Franklin entered the Royal Navy at the age of 14, went on his first exploratory voyage to… Shares: Scientific expeditions, Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Journeys

Frozen in time Owen Beattie · 1987 · ★ 4.1 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate xvii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm Shares: Explorers, Discovery and exploration, British, Biography & Memoir

Travels to discover the source of the Nile James Bruce · 1790 · ★ 3.2 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Experiences of the Scottish explorer who rediscovered the source of the Nile on November 4, 1770. Shares: Explorers, Discovery and exploration, British, Travel

When the Going Was Good Evelyn Waugh · 1934 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Challenging With the publication of When the Going Was Good Little, Brown takes great pleasure in returning to print a classic of travel journalism. Between 1928 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh wrote four travel books: Labels, Remote People, Ninety-Two Days, and Waugh in Abyssinia, about journeys he made in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. In 1945 he excerpted five long pieces from these books and published… Shares: Journeys, Voyages and travels, British, Travel

Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile John Hanning Speke · 1863 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Challenging This classic book is Speke's firsthand account of his second expedition, an exciting blend of adventure, exploration, and geographic and ethnographic data. The book begins with the expedition's preparations, departure from London, and arrival at Zanzibar in 1859. They then undertake the hazardous march into the interior, encountering hostile tribes, dangerous animals, thieves, and other… Shares: Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Journeys, Travel

America Theodor de Bry · 1590 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Demanding Coastal/territorial waters included: Shares: Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Travel, Biography & Memoir

Sandstorm James Rollins · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 516p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Nationally bestselling author James Rollins has transported readers to the dark heart of the Amazon, the bowels of the earth, far below the ocean, and the top of the world. Now he embarks upon his most gripping and terrifying adventure yet: to a nightmare buried beneath a treacherous desert wasteland. An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum -- a devastating… Shares: Scientific expeditions, British

Sailing alone around the world Joshua Slocum · 1800 · ★ 4.2 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Joshua Slocum, one of the most famous of American sea captains, really was the first to single-handedly circumnavigate the world. The epitome of Yankee independence, he had risen from a seaman to the captain of his own ship. Marooned in Brazil, he built a "canoe" in which he returned to America (see The Voyage of the Liberdade). At loose ends at fifty-one, he was offered an old oyster boat which… Shares: Journeys, Voyages and travels, Travel, Biography & Memoir

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Meriwether Lewis · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Primiary source. Shares: Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Travel, History

Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique centrale René Caillié · 1830 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Second book of 3. First person account of how René Caillié managed to get to Temboctou in 1828 ( and managed to get back to tell the story). This book , the book end when mister Caillié is following a caravan, trying to get back to African sea coast. Shares: Discovery and exploration, Journeys, Travel

The Story of Paul Boyton Paul Boyton · 1892 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Challenging This book was originally marketed with this words: "A rare tale of travel and Adventure. Thrilling experiences in distant lands, among strange people. A book for boys, old and young". Shares: Voyages and travels, Biography & Memoir

The cannibal islands Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1850 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Travel back with author R. M. Ballantyne to the late eighteenth century and join Captain James Cook on his scientific expeditions to such exotic places as Tierra del Fuego, the islands of Tahiti and New Zealand, and the scene of the closing of his great career as navigator and discoverer. Learn from Cook's own observations and Ballantyne's detailed, yet tasteful and true explanations of the… Shares: Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Voyages and travels, Biography & Memoir

Autobiography of Lutfullah Lutfullah · 1857 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Journeys, Travel, Biography & Memoir, History

Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879 · ★ 3.6 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western France. Humorous on his own failings as a traveller, and on his travails with Modestine the self-willed donkey, it is also an exploration of peasant life in an area marked by the violence of the wars of religion. This version includes the fragment "A mountain… Shares: Journeys, Voyages and travels, Travel, Biography & Memoir

Els viatges d'Ali Bei Ali Bey · 1814 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares: Journeys, Voyages and travels, Travel

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