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 (The Sparrow, #1)
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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