I'll Try Anything Twice
Carly Schwartz
Published 2026
280 pages
The most popular exploration & adventure books of 2026
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 2026.
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Love Keeps Showing Up
Adassa
Published 2026
192 pages
Jan Morris
Sara Wheeler
Published 2026
432 pages
Space Ace
Robert Gibson
Published 2026
288 pages
Composing Olana
Annik LaFarge
Published 2026
208 pages
A Fabulous Thru-Hike 3,100 Miles on the Continental Divide Trail
Derick Lugo
Published 2026
240 pages
Dinner with an Astronaut
Leroy Chiao
Published 2026
320 pages
Around the Bend Floating Down the Missouri River
Lisa G. Dill
Published 2026
240 pages
Ghent City, Belgium
Ethan Brown
Published 2026
216 pages
Guatemala High Life, Low Life
Steven Froelich
Published 2026
224 pages
Glass
Larissa Theule
Published 2026
48 pages
Bloomsbury to Barkerville The Life of Florence Wilson
Marion McKinnon Crook
Published 2026
288 pages
The Greatest Templar Tale Never Told The Sinclair/Weymss Journals
Scott F. Wolter
Published 2026
224 pages
Ten Days That Shook My World Searching for My Father in War-Torn Ethiopia
Jonathan Wickham
Published 2026
300 pages
Wilderness Mum
Kate Barron
Published 2026
352 pages
London Sojourn Rewriting Life After Retirement
Rebecca Knuth
Published 2026
256 pages
Troika Three Generations, Three Days, and a Very American Road Trip
Irena Smith
Published 2026
256 pages
Rada Photography
Victor Deupi
Published 2026
384 pages
The Invention of Indigenous America The Role of Material Culture in the Production of Transatlantic Imaginaries on Brazilian Natives
Anna Bottesi
Published 2026
250 pages
Happy Land
Tim Bird
Published 2026
256 pages
Island of Impact Uncovering Puerto Rico's Untold Story, Global Power, and Fight for Identity
Dean Huertas
Published 2026
212 pages
Lost Horizons A Journalist's Remarkable Life Behind the Iron Curtain, Amidst the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the Quagmires of the Middle East and a Disappearing Asia
Denis D. Gray
Published 2026
256 pages
The Great Northern Expedition
Maria Cristina Pritelli
Published 2026
32 pages
The Gap Years Climbing, Skiing, and the Journey Back
Tom French
Published 2026
256 pages