Even before fantasy and science fiction were genres we had adventure biographies. Travelers would journey into the unknown and share their heroic tale with the world (or someone else would in some cases). Whether you've experienced a call to adventure or prefer to read tales from others, what adventure biographies have stuck with you?
 Into Thin Air
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 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
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 Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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 Seven Years in Tibet
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 Phenomenal
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 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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 Into the Wild
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 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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 To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
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 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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 Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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 Man-Eaters of Kumaon
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 The histories
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 Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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 A Woman's Trip to Alaska
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 Shackleton: A Biography
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 The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
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 A Voyage Long and Strange
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 Magellan
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 The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
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 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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 Wavewalker
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 Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
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 Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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 Life of Pi
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