The most popular French exploration & adventure books

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. Only books in French are listed.

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Marco Polo
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Marco Polo

Simone Abraham-Thisse, Alain Plessis

Published 1980

28 pages

ATLANTIQUES
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ATLANTIQUES

Guy Delage

Published 2017

417 pages

Voyager dans l'Antiquité
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Voyager dans l'Antiquité

Jean-Marie André, Marie-Françoise Baslez

1993 · 1999 edition

594 pages

Marco Polo
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Marco Polo

Johanne Ménard, Pierre Berthiaume

2010 · 2015 edition

64 pages

Le Livre de Marco Polo
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Le Livre de Marco Polo

Marco Polo, Jean Pierre Guillaume Pauthier, Rusticiano (Di Pisa)

Published 2025

492 pages