What are your favorite adventure biographies?Answer

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?

Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

2002 • 15 Readers • 480 pages 4.3

A Voyage Long and Strange

2008 • 2 Readers • 464 pages 4

The histories

The histories
ByHerodotus

-450 • 15 Readers • 772 pages 3.8