Best Historical Travel Journals
101. 
Dog days on ice: Antarctic exploration in a golden era
by:
Peter Noble
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings 101. 
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North 3.87 avg rating β 2,486 ratings
106. 
Witness to Life and Freedom: Margaret Bourke-White in India and Pakistan
by:
Pramod Kapoor
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings 
106. 
109. 
Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
by:
Paul Bowles
4.03 avg rating β 636 ratings 110. 
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
by:
Ben Montgomery
4.10 avg rating β 29,332 ratings 111. 
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
by:
Edward Dolnick
4.01 avg rating β 2,627 ratings 112. 
Looking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail 3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
113. 
Alexander the Great: Selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius
by:
James Romm
3.84 avg rating β 128 ratings 
115. 
The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels 4.09 avg rating β 915 ratings
116. 
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
by:
Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating β 207 ratings 
119. 
119. 
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.10 avg rating β 24,892 ratings 121. 
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
by:
Pierre Berton
4.37 avg rating β 751 ratings 121. 
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125. 
The First Four Voyages Of Amerigo Vespucci (1885)
by:
Amerigo Vespucci
3.92 avg rating β 25 ratings 
127. 
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
by:
Jay Atkinson
3.75 avg rating β 422 ratings 
128. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β 989,205 ratings
131. 
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific 4.53 avg rating β 5,332 ratings
132. 
Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
by:
John Muir
4.29 avg rating β 950 ratings 133. 
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
by:
Wendy McClure
3.48 avg rating β 8,007 ratings 134. 
136. 
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship 4.06 avg rating β 591 ratings
140. 
Picasso's Paris: Walking Tours of the Artist's Life in the City
by:
Ellen Williams
3.86 avg rating β 14 ratings 140. 
140. 
Traveling Between the Lines: Europe in 1938: the Trip Journal of John F. Randolph and His Daughter's Response
by:
Rebecca McBride
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings 140. 
Wanderers & Nomads: True Stories of Eccentric and Wild Explorers in the Americas
by:
Stephen R. Bown
3.65 avg rating β 34 ratings 
140. 
Christoph Von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern (North Carolina)
by:
Vincent H. Todd
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings 
140. 
Romancing the East: A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai
by:
Jerry Hopkins
3.75 avg rating β 56 ratings 140. 
30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot
by:
Tom Vetter
4.33 avg rating β 67 ratings 
140. 
The Taking of Saipan: Memoirs of Cpl. Richard Meadows & Cpl. Genkichi Ichikawa
by:
Douglas Westfall
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 140. 
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
by:
Kevin Fedarko
4.43 avg rating β 13,630 ratings 
140. 
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
by:
Buddy Levy
4.44 avg rating β 2,805 ratings 140. 
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
by:
Kenneth Maher
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 33 ratings 140. 
Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.89 avg rating β 488 ratings 
160. 
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by:
Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating β 24,755 ratings 160. 
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
by:
Candice Millard
3.84 avg rating β 16,069 ratings 160. 
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
by:
Eliot Stein
4.21 avg rating β 1,206 ratings 160. 
Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
by:
Brian Castner
3.87 avg rating β 708 ratings 160. 
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
by:
Siddharth Kara
4.41 avg rating β 51 ratings 
170. 
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure) 3.59 avg rating β 69 ratings
170. 
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
by:
Buddy Levy
4.18 avg rating β 866 ratings 
176. 
176. 
Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark 3.53 avg rating β 1,013 ratings
176. 
Coppermine Journey: An Account of Great Adventure Selected from the Journals of Samuel Hearne
by:
Farley Mowat
3.95 avg rating β 43 ratings 
176. 
Tramping With A Poet In The Rockies
by:
Stephen Graham
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15 ratings 184. 
184. 
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
by:
Porter Fox
3.62 avg rating β 2,142 ratings 
189. 
A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
by:
Gavin Maxwell
4.17 avg rating β 166 ratings 189. 
189. 
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by:
Matthew Goodman
3.73 avg rating β 6,475 ratings 198. 
You Have Seen Their Faces (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
Erskine Caldwell
3.75 avg rating β 110 ratings 
