Sea voyages, space missions, and exploration (colonialism, stage one) Suggestions welcome
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last updated July, 2026
The Last of Earth
Deepa Anappara
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Mike Dash
Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. Gwynne
The Hunger
Alma Katsu
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The North Water
Ian McGuire
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
Stephen R. Bown
Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)
William Golding
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
The Word for World Is Forest
Ursula K. Le Guin
Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson
A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Candice Millard
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Michael Palin
The Left Hand of Darkness
All the White Spaces
Ally Wilkes
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
Dan Simmons
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
Buddy Levy
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Anthony Brandt
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Julian Sancton
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Nicholas Tomalin
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
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