Subject: Explorers › Great Britain › Biography

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• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (1,118 copies)
• Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice (420 copies)
• A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and… by Diana Preston (237 copies)
• The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration) by Roland Huntford (219 copies)
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard (192 copies)
• The Devil Drives : A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie (179 copies)
• Shackleton by Roland Huntford (149 copies)
• Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals by R. F. Scott (146 copies)
• Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming (144 copies)
• Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie (139 copies)
• Joseph Banks: A Life by Patrick O'Brian (115 copies)
• Captain James Cook by Richard Hough (111 copies)
• A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell (110 copies)
• Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by Frank Arthur Worsley (99 copies)
• Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley (95 copies)
• The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 by Samuel Bawlf (95 copies)
• The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of… by Anne Salmond (79 copies)
• Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Byron E. Farwell (78 copies)
• Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal (71 copies)
• Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler (70 copies)
• Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes (66 copies)
• Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook by Nicholas Thomas (63 copies)
• A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley by Katherine Frank (61 copies)
• Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James… by Martin Dugard (60 copies)
• Sir Walter Ralegh by Robert Lacey (46 copies)
• Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown (44 copies)
• Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in… by David Crane (44 copies)
• Sir Walter Raleigh by Raleigh Trevelyan (43 copies)
• Voyages to Paradise : Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook… by William R. Gray (42 copies)
• Captain James Cook by Alan Villiers (40 copies)
• Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton… by John Bierman (39 copies)
• Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and… by Patricia Fara (36 copies)
• Sir Francis Drake: The Queen`s Pirate (Yale Nota Bene) by Harry Kelsey (35 copies)
• Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony by Robert Ruby (31 copies)
• Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic… by Ranulph Fiennes (28 copies)
• The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian… by Dane Kennedy (28 copies)
• Sir Francis Drake by George Malcolm Thomson (26 copies)
• Scott of the Antarctic by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley (24 copies)
• Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson (24 copies)
• Lovers on the Nile: The incredible African journeys of Sam… by Richard Seymour Hall (22 copies)
• Francis Drake (Adventures in Discovery) by David Goodnough (21 copies)
• The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of… by Peter Firstbrook (21 copies)
• Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer by Frank McLynn (19 copies)
• Charting the Sea of Darkness: The Four Voyages of Henry… by Donald S. Johnson (19 copies)
• The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George… by Peter Steele SJ (15 copies)
• John Cabot and Son by David Goodnough (14 copies)
• John Smith Escapes Again! by Rosalyn Schanzer (14 copies)
• Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American… by Thomas Hoobler (14 copies)
• The shepherd of the ocean; an account of Sir Walter Ralegh… by Jack H. Adamson (12 copies)
• You Wouldn't Want to Travel With Captain Cook!: A Voyage… by Mark Bergin (12 copies)

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