Prompts

What are your favorite adventure biographies?

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

1997 • 536 Readers • 368 pages 4.3

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail

#2 of 2 in Bryson and Katz

1997 • 434 Readers • 416 pages 4

Seven Years in Tibet

1953 • 64 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Phenomenal

2015 • 3 Readers • 288 pages 2.3

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

1959 • 382 Readers • 270 pages 4.5

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

2009 • 243 Readers • 450 pages 3.8

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

2015 • 118 Readers • 447 pages 4.3

Touching the Void

1988 • 74 Readers • 174 pages 4.2

Man-Eaters of Kumaon

1944 • 6 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

The histories

#1 of 1 in Loeb Herodotus

-450 • 20 Readers • 772 pages 4

A Woman's Trip to Alaska

1890 • 2 Readers • 230 pages 4.5

Shackleton: A Biography

2020 • 8 Readers • 448 pages 4.7

A Voyage Long and Strange

2008 • 2 Readers • 464 pages 4

Magellan

1938 • 6 Readers • 280 pages 4.5

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#0 in Oprah's

2012 • 514 Readers • 338 pages 3.8

Wavewalker

2023 • 6 Readers • 415 pages 4

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

1968 • 122 Readers • 269 pages 4

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

#1 of 1 in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

1926 • 53 Readers • 1,475 pages 4

Life of Pi

1980 • 1,210 Readers • 480 pages 3.8