Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

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Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time

"A list we had hoped our readers would enjoy turned out to be one of the most popular features in Adventure's five-year history. You toon meer asked for it—repeatedly—now you got it: the 100 Greatest in all their glory."

National Geographic Adventure Magazine (April 2004)
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The Worst Journey in the World (1922) door Apsley Cherry-Garrard
001
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1905) door Reuben Gold Thwaites
002
Het rijk der mensen (1939) door Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
003
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (1875) door John Wesley Powell
004
Woestijnen van Arabië (1959) door Wilfred Thesiger
005
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968) door Edward Abbey
007
De nacht achterna vlucht over Afrika (1942) door Beryl Markham
008
De ijle lucht in het verslag van een huiveringwekkende Mount Everest-expeditie (1996) door Jon Krakauer
009
De wonderen van de Orient (1298) door Marco Polo
010
Farthest North (1897) door Fridtjof Nansen
011
De sneeuwluipaard (1978) door Peter Matthiessen
012
Roughing It (1872) door Mark Twain
013
Twee jaar voor de mast 1834-1836 : het klassieke verhaal van het matrozenleven op zee (1840) door Richard Henry Jr. Dana
014
Zuidpool : Shackletons laatste expeditie 1914-1917 (1919) door Ernest Shackleton
015
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) door Eric Newby
016
De Kon-tiki Expeditie : 8000 kilometer per vlot over de Grote Ocean (1948) door Thor Heyerdahl
017
Reizen in West-Afrika 1893-1895 (1897) door Mary Kingsley
018
De brede zee : met de "Spirit of St. Louis" over de oceaan (1953) door Charles A. Lindbergh
019
Zeven jaar in Tibet mijn leven aan het hof van de Dalai Lama (1952) door Heinrich Harrer
020
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific (1949) door James Cook
021
The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival (1930) door Douglas Mawson
022
De reis van de Beagle (1839) door Charles Darwin
023
Zeven zuilen van wijsheid een triomf (1922) door T. E. Lawrence
024
Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799) door Mungo Park
025
Pure klasse (1979) door Tom Wolfe
026
Sailing Alone around the World (1900) door Joshua Slocum
027
The Mountain of My Fear (1968) door David Roberts
028
First Footsteps in East Africa or An Exploration of Harar (1856) door Richard F. Burton
029
De volmaakte storm (1997) door Sebastian Junger
030
The Oregon Trail : Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (1849) door Francis Parkman
031
Through the Dark Continent or The Sources of the Nile Around the Great lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean (1878) door Henry M. Stanley
032
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) door Isabella L. Bird
033
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (1917) door Valerian Albanov
034
Endurance (1999) door Frank Worsley
035
Scrambles Amongst the Alps (1893) door Edward Whymper
036
Een lied van Afrika (1937) door Isak Dinesen
037
Scotts laatste expeditie : de dagboeken van de reis van kapitein Robert Falcon Scott met de Terra Nova naar de Zuidpool, (1913) door Robert Falcon Scott
038
Everest: The West Ridge (1965) door Thomas F. Hornbein
039
Reis zonder kaarten (1936) door Graham Greene
040
Starlight and Storm (1956) door Gaston Rébuffat
041
My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) door John Muir
042
My Life as an Explorer (1925) door Sven Hedin
043
Tussen Orinoco en Amazone (1988) door Redmond O'Hanlon
044
The Man Who Walked through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot through the Grand Canyon (1968) door Colin Fletcher
045
K2, the Savage Mountain (1954) door Charles S. Houston
046
De wereldreis van Gipsy Moth (1967) door Francis Chichester
047
Menseneters van Kumaon (1944) door Jim Corbett
048
Alone (1938) door Richard E. Byrd
049
Vreemdeling in het woud. Te voet door Borneo (1988) door Eric Hansen
050
Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) door Charles M. Doughty
051
The Royal Road to Romance (1925) door Richard Halliburton
052
De barre vlucht (1956) door Sławomir Rawicz
053
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872) door Clarence King
054
Een vrouw trekt door Tibet (1927) door Alexandra David-Néel
055
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863) door John Hanning Speke
056
Running the Amazon (1989) door Joe Kane
057
Overleven het verhaal van de vliegramp in de Andes (1974) door Piers Paul Read
058
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation (1972) door Richard Hakluyt
059
Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan (1841) door John Lloyd Stephens
060
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (1984) door Owen Chase
061
Life in the Far West (1601) door George F. Ruxton
062
My Life as an Explorer (1927) door Roald Amundsen
063
Op reis door Tartarenland. Een tocht van Peking naar Kashmir (1936) door Peter Fleming
064
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (1980) door Arlene Blum
065
The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty (1792) door William Bligh
066
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986) door Steven Callahan
067
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (1542) door ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
068
Over de rand (1988) door Joe Simpson
069
Sporen in de woestijn (1980) door Robyn Davidson
070
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837) door Washington Irving
071
Cooper Creek : het verhaal van de noodlottige expeditie van Burke en Wills naar het gloeiend hete binnenland van Midden- (1963) door Alan Moorehead
072
The Fearful Void (1974) door Geoffrey Moorhouse
073
No Picnic on Mount Kenya (1946) door Felice Benuzzi
074
Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) door Theodore Roosevelt
075
De weg naar Oxiana (1937) door Robert Byron
076
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (1969) door Art Davidson
077
De reis (1355) door Ibn Battuta
78
Jaguars Ripped My Flesh (1987) door Tim Cahill
079
Journal of a Trapper (1955) door Osborne Russell
080
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle (1965) door Dervla Murphy
081
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1996) door Sara Wheeler
082
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1955) door David Howarth
083
Kabloona (1941) door Gontran de Poncins
084
Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna (1961) door Lionel Terray
085
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (1974) door Michael Collins
086
Adventures in the Wilderness (Adirondack Museum) (1970) door William H. H. Murray
087
The mountains of my life (1995) door Walter Bonatti
088
Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (1988) door James West Davidson
089
Journal of the Voyage to the Pacific (1931) door Alexander Mackenzie
090
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (1934) door Freya Stark
091
De zwijgende wereld (1953) door Jacques-Yves Cousteau
092
Alaska Wilderness: Exploring the Central Brooks Range (1970) door Robert Marshall
093
Over de indianen van Noord-Amerika (1995) door George Catlin
094
I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson (1940) door Osa Johnson
095
The descent of Pierre Saint-Martin (1954) door Norbert Casteret
096
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (1989) door Reinhold Messner
097
Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chile, etc., With a Scientific Appendix. (1839) door John Kirk Townsend
098
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness (1990) door Doug Peacock
099
One Man's Mountains (1971) door Tom Patey
100
The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas (2003) door Todd Balf
new short list
Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow: The Personal Costs of Climbing (2003) door Maria Coffey
new short list
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay (2003) door John Gimlette
new short list
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (2003) door Nathaniel Philbrick
new short list
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight (2003) door James Tobin
new short list

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