Battle of Ink and Ice A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Darrell Hartman
Published 2023
400 pages
The most popular exploration & adventure books of 2023
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 2023.
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The Last Ride of the Pony Express My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West
Will Grant
Published 2023
320 pages
Wanderlust An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
Reid Mitenbuler
Published 2023
495 pages
The French Art of Living Well Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World
Cathy Yandell
Published 2023
224 pages
More Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood
Majka Burhardt
Published 2023
336 pages
How To Be Alone
Nicole Antoinette
Published 2023
268 pages
Coffee First, Then the World One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
Jenny Graham
Published 2023
288 pages
Tabula Rasa Volume 1
John McPhee
Published 2023
192 pages
Take the Lead Hanging On, Letting Go, and Conquering Life's Hardest Climbs
Sasha DiGiulian
Published 2023
288 pages
The World According to Joan Didion
Evelyn McDonnell
2023 · 2025 edition
256 pages
Not On Any Map
Margie Smith Holt
Published 2023
344 pages
The Last Island Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
Adam Goodheart
Published 2023
256 pages
A Wing and a Prayer The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
Anders Gyllenhaal, Beverly Gyllenhaal
Published 2023
320 pages
Move Like Water My Story of the Sea
Hannah Stowe
Published 2023
277 pages
Black Ghosts
Noo Saro-Wiwa
2023 · 2024 edition
256 pages
The New Guys The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
Meredith Bagby
2023 · 2024 edition
528 pages
The Indestructible Tom Crean
Jennifer Thermes
Published 2023
56 pages
Airplane Mode An Irreverent History of Travel
Shahnaz Habib
2023 · 2024 edition
288 pages
The Art of Risk
Richard Harris
Published 2023
294 pages
The Last Cold Place A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
Naira de Gracia
Published 2023
256 pages
British Columbiana A Millennial in a Gold Rush Town
Josie Teed
Published 2023
264 pages
The Way of the Hermit My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
Ken Smith
Published 2023
320 pages
Finding Endurance Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
Darrel Bristow-Bovey
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
Joy Ride
Kristen Jokinen
Published 2023
290 pages