River of the Gods Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Candice Millard
2022 · 2023 edition
448 pages
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438 Days
Jonathan Franklin
Published 2015
274 pages
North
Scott Jurek, Jenny Jurek
Published 2018
304 pages
The Boy on the Wooden Box How the Impossible Became Possible - on Schindler's List
Leon Leyson
Published 2013
256 pages
Trump
Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz
1987 · 1990 edition
320 pages
The Emerald Mile The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko
Published 2013
415 pages
NINE PARTS OF DESIRE
Geraldine Brooks, Jacqueline Lahana
1994 · 2007 edition
272 pages
1421
Gavin Menzies
Published 2002
544 pages
Lunch in Paris
Elizabeth Bard
Published 2010
339 pages
Green River, Running Red
Ann Rule
2004 · 2005 edition
704 pages
Surrender 40 Songs, One Story
Bono
Published 2022
576 pages
Getting Stoned with Savages A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
J. Maarten Troost
Published 2006
256 pages
Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik
2000 · 2008 edition
352 pages
Dead Mountain The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar, J. C. Gabel, Nova Jacobs
Published 2013
288 pages
World Travel
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
Published 2021
480 pages
Endurance An Epic Of Polar Adventure
Frank Arthur Worsley, Patrick O'Brian
Published 2000
310 pages
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Laural Merlington
Published 2014
320 pages
Lawrence in Arabia War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Scott Anderson
Published 2013
577 pages
Erebus The Story of a Ship
Michael Palin
Published 2018
352 pages
Blood River
Tim Butcher
2007 · 2009 edition
384 pages
Long Way Round Chasing Shadows Across the World
Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, Robert Uhlig
Published 2004
312 pages
The Discoverers
Daniel J. Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)
1983 · 2001 edition
768 pages
The White Darkness
David Grann, 大卫·格雷恩
Published 2018
160 pages
Bill Bryson African Diary
Bill Bryson
2002 · 2016 edition
64 pages