Papyrus The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Irene Vallejo
2020 · 2025 edition
464 pages
The most popular exploration & adventure books of 2020
These are true stories of people who went to the edge. Polar expeditions, mountain climbs, ocean crossings, jungle treks and survival against the odds are told by those who were there or by writers who followed their trail. Gripping, humbling and often hard to put down. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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The Wild Silence A Memoir
Raynor Winn
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
The Best of Me
David Sedaris
2020 · 2021 edition
432 pages
Dirt Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French cooking
Bill Buford
2020 · 2021 edition
432 pages
The Adventurer's Son A Memoir
Roman Dial
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
The White Ship
Charles Spencer
Published 2020
366 pages
Spirit Run A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
Noé Alvarez
2020 · 2021 edition
240 pages
The Impossible First From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone
Colin O'Brady
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
The Art of Resilience
Ross Edgley
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
Things I Learned from Falling
Claire Nelson
Published 2020
263 pages
The Deepest South of All True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
Richard L. Grant
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
Above the Clouds
Kilian Jornet
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Riverman An American Odyssey
Ben McGrath
2020 · 2022 edition
272 pages
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Sean Dietrich
Published 2020
256 pages
Journeys North The Pacific Crest Trail
Barney Scout Mann
Published 2020
320 pages
Shackleton
Ranulph Fiennes
2020 · 2022 edition
448 pages
The Year 1000 When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Valerie Hansen
2020 · 2021 edition
308 pages
Imperfect Union How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
Steve Inskeep
2020 · 2021 edition
496 pages
The World Beneath Their Feet The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas
Scott Ellsworth
2020 · 2021 edition
416 pages
A Year at the Château
Dick Strawbridge, Strawbr
Published 2020
293 pages
Denali A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime
Ben Moon
Published 2020
288 pages
A Year of Living Simply The Joys of a Life Less Complicated
Kate Humble
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
Maiden Voyages
Siân Evans
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
History Smashers
Kate Messner
Published 2020
224 pages