How to Survive Against the Odds
Wondery
Published 2025
304 pages
The most popular exploration & adventure books of 2025
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 2025.
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In Green
Louis D Hall
Published 2025
320 pages
World History for Kids Powerful Leaders, Mysterious Empires, and Exciting Explorations—from Ancient Egypt to the Americas
Brooke Khan
Published 2025
176 pages
American History for Kids Exploration, Battles, Tragedies, and Triumphs—from Native Nations to the U.S.A.
Stacia Deutsch
Published 2025
176 pages
Top Cop Kills
DeWitt Henry
Published 2025
220 pages
The Unforgiving Hours
Shannon Hogan
Published 2025
304 pages
Diary of a Zoo Vet Panda Checkups, Escaping Chimps and Life in the Wildest Clinic on Earth
Tim Bouts
Published 2025
224 pages
The Lieutenant Nun (New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture)
Published 2025
286 pages
One Hand for Jenny Volume 1
Stanley Sieja Jr
Published 2025
156 pages
Parallel Lives
Jennifer Andrewes
Published 2025
236 pages
Wrecked A Deep Dive Into the World's Most Famous Shipwrecks
Rebecca Siegel
Published 2025
64 pages
Knowledge Encyclopedia Myths and Legends
Philip Parker, Andrea Mills, Sam Atkinson, Zaina Budaly, Phil Hunt ((Author at DK Publishing, Inc.))
Published 2025
208 pages
Exploration Map by Map From Migrations and Encounters to Voyages and Discoveries
Dorling Kindersley (corp)
Published 2025
288 pages
From a Dream to a Drive
Allyson Wynne Allen
Published 2025
169 pages
If You Were a Kid at Ellis Island
Joana Costa Knufinke
Published 2025
32 pages
Destination City A Gallery of New York's Most Surprising Visitors and Residents Throughout History
Robert Pigott
Published 2025
344 pages
Bones
Graeme Menzies
Published 2025
164 pages
Mission Moon An Illustrated Guide to Space Exploration
Sarah Mühlebach
Published 2025
72 pages
Exposed - Leo Houlding Photographs of an Extreme Life
Leo Houlding, Alastair Lee
Published 2025
208 pages
Raincoast Chronicles Fifth Five
Judith Williams, Jean Barman, Rick James, Alan Haig-Brown
Published 2025
420 pages
The River's Daughter
Bridget Crocker
Published 2025
320 pages
Captain Kidd's Treasure (Unsolved)
Dinah Williams
Published 2025
48 pages
Perseverance Life and Death in the Subarctic
Stephan Kesting
Published 2025
272 pages
Roses in December Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights
Jody Lynn Allen
Published 2025
218 pages