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?
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Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
Phenomenal
Leigh Ann Henion
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Christopher Johnson McCandless
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Jedidiah Jenkins
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson
Man-Eaters of Kumaon
Jim Corbett
The histories
Herodotus
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Tony Horwitz
A Woman's Trip to Alaska
Septima Maria Collis
Shackleton: A Biography
Ranulph Fiennes
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
Caroline Van Hemert
A Voyage Long and Strange
Tony Horwitz
Magellan
Stefan Zweig
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
Stephen R. Bown
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail