The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

National Geographic Adventure Mag.: 100 Greatest Adventure Books (1-19)


1. The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)
2. Journals, by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814)
3. Wind, Sand & Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1940)
4. Exploration of the Colorado River, by John Wesley Powell (1875)
5. Arabian Sands, by Wilfred Thesiger (1959)
6. Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog (1952)
7. Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey (1968)
8. West With the Night, by Beryl Markham (1942)
9. Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer (1997)
10. Travels, by Marco Polo (1298)
11. Farthest North, by Fridtjof Nansen (1897)
12. The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen (1978)
13. Roughing It, by Mark Twain (1872)
14. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana (1840)
15. South, by Ernest Shackleton (1919)
16. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, by Eric Newby (1958)
17. Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl (1950)
18. Travels in West Africa, by Mary Kingsley (1897)
19. The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles Lindbergh (1953)

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