The Great Explorers

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 4.18 avg rating — 18,435 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,329 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 3.90 avg rating — 106,811 ratings
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen 4.13 avg rating — 812 ratings
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The White Nile
The White Nile 4.12 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 4.46 avg rating — 155,659 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki 4.16 avg rating — 24,590 ratings
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The Travels
The Travels 3.58 avg rating — 7,903 ratings
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Journals of Lewis and Clark 4.12 avg rating — 5,346 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,185 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
Voyage of the Beagle 4.02 avg rating — 8,291 ratings
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The Journals
The Journals 3.91 avg rating — 914 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctica 1910-1913. Complete, Unabridged & Illustrated. Volumes 1 & 2.
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctica 1910-1913. Complete, Unabridged & Illustrated. Volumes 1 & 2. 4.19 avg rating — 8,228 ratings
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The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo 3.69 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Blue Nile
The Blue Nile 4.16 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
Captain Cook: Master of the Seas 4.12 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty 3.95 avg rating — 5,240 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History 3.82 avg rating — 5,238 ratings
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The Birthday Boys
The Birthday Boys 3.91 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
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Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals 4.14 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating — 115,967 ratings
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This Thing of Darkness
This Thing of Darkness 4.51 avg rating — 3,304 ratings
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon 4.01 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
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The Conquest of New Spain
The Conquest of New Spain 4.14 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
The Travels of Ibn Battutah 3.91 avg rating — 2,693 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West 4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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Baudolino
Baudolino 3.80 avg rating — 24,889 ratings
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan 3.92 avg rating — 2,116 ratings
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The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands 3.93 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Measuring the World
Measuring the World 3.73 avg rating — 21,338 ratings
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The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce
The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Francis Parkman: France and England in North America, Volume 1
Francis Parkman: France and England in North America, Volume 1 4.27 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu 3.90 avg rating — 138 ratings
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West With The Night
West With The Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,229 ratings
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
The Essential Lewis and Clark 3.82 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries 4.04 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic 4.26 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Aviator's Wife
The Aviator's Wife 3.91 avg rating — 75,927 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before 4.04 avg rating — 10,353 ratings
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone 4.15 avg rating — 7,474 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors 3.87 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science) 3.38 avg rating — 202 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers 3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia
Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America 3.68 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship 4.06 avg rating — 591 ratings
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History of the Conquest of Peru
History of the Conquest of Peru 3.99 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
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 — 950 ratings
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives
The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives 3.48 avg rating — 814 ratings
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Scott and Amundsen
Scott and Amundsen 4.35 avg rating — 3,492 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon 4.13 avg rating — 12,150 ratings
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America 4.03 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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Shackleton
Shackleton 4.35 avg rating — 717 ratings
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Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature 4.16 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 51,856 ratings
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Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark 3.56 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Egyptian Diaries
Egyptian Diaries 3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and its Tributaries
Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and its Tributaries 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Piri Reis Map of 1513
The Piri Reis Map of 1513 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
1421: The Year China Discovered America 3.61 avg rating — 15,059 ratings
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Brazilian Adventure
Brazilian Adventure 3.87 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island 4.01 avg rating — 1,415 ratings
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
Captain James Cook: A Biography 4.16 avg rating — 698 ratings
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
Tales from the Queen of the Desert 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 4.34 avg rating — 21,551 ratings
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis 4.11 avg rating — 9,933 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons 3.91 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
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In Siberia
In Siberia 3.97 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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The Frozen Deep
The Frozen Deep 3.52 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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The Life of Gordon, Major-General, R. E., C. B: Turkish field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order
The Life of Gordon, Major-General, R. E., C. B: Turkish field-Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu (Field-Marshal), Yellow Jacket Order 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Last Hours on Everest
Last Hours on Everest 3.76 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
The Year of Decision 1846 4.13 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver 4.12 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West 4.25 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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The Tutankhamun Deception: The True Story of the Mummy's Curse
The Tutankhamun Deception: The True Story of the Mummy's Curse 3.34 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Terror
The Terror 4.09 avg rating — 70,625 ratings
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Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor 3.86 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life
Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life 3.81 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909
The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 4.37 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Across The Wide Missouri
Across The Wide Missouri 4.08 avg rating — 487 ratings
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier 4.08 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent 4.01 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Ansichten der Natur
Ansichten der Natur
by: Humboldt
3.80 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier 3.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
88.
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 9,322 ratings
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Travels into the Interior of Africa
Travels into the Interior of Africa 3.89 avg rating — 698 ratings
90.
My Life as an Explorer
My Life as an Explorer 4.03 avg rating — 390 ratings
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The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail 3.56 avg rating — 3,652 ratings
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Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years, 1842-45, During the Mission Sent Out by His Majesty Fredrick William IV. of Prussia
Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years, 1842-45, During the Mission Sent Out by His Majesty Fredrick William IV. of Prussia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain
Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain 3.36 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Gold of Troy
The Gold of Troy 3.94 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy 4.18 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 4.04 avg rating — 6,742 ratings
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Captain Cook : The Seaman's Seaman
Captain Cook : The Seaman's Seaman 3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation
Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation 3.96 avg rating — 946 ratings
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30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot
30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot 4.33 avg rating — 67 ratings
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A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire
A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire 3.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
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