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- Available at Project Gutenberg
- Going through Distributed Proofreaders
- Not in Project Gutenberg or Distributed Proofreaders
- Not in Project Gutenberg or Distributed Proofreaders, and online scans available
- Unknown status — might be in an existing anthology
- Published in 1923 or later, so probably not eligible
National Geographic's top 100
- The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922) PG 13643
- Journals, by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814) PG 8419
- Wind, Sand & Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1940)
- Exploration of the Colorado River, by John Wesley Powell (1875)
- Arabian Sands, by Wilfred Thesiger (1959)
- Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog (1952)
- Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey (1968)
- West With the Night, by Beryl Markham (1942)
- Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer (1997)
- Travels, by Marco Polo (1298) PG 10636 PG 12410
- Farthest North, by Fridtjof Nansen (1897) PG 30197
- The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen (1978)
- Roughing It, by Mark Twain (1872) PG 3177
PG 8582
PG 8583
PG 8584
PG 8585
PG 8586
PG 8587
PG 8588
PG 8589
- Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana (1840)
PG 4277
PG 2055
- South, by Ernest Shackleton (1919) PG 5199
- A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, by Eric Newby (1958)
- Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl (1950)
- Travels in West Africa, by Mary Kingsley (1897) PG 5891
- The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles Lindbergh (1953)
- Seven Years in Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer (1953)
- Journals, by James Cook (1768-1779) PG 8106
PG 15777
PG 15869
- Home of the Blizzard, by Douglas Mawson (1915) PG 6137
- The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin (1839) PG 3704
- The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence (1926)
- Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, by Mungo Park (1799)
PG 5266
PG 5305
- The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe (1979)
- Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum (1900) PG 6137
- The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, by David Roberts (1968, 1970)
- First Footsteps in East Africa, by Richard Burton (1856) PG 6886
- The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger (1997)
- The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman (1849) PG 1015
- Through the Dark Continent, by Henry M. Stanley (1878) (Gallica have a French translation vol 1 vol 2) (Joe Cooper has vol 1, but missing 2 pages)
- A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, by Isabella L. Bird (1879) PG 755
- In the Land of White Death, by Valerian Albanov (1917)
- Endurance, by F.A. Worsley (1931)
- Scrambles Amongst the Alps, by Edward Whymper (1871) TIA
- Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen (1937)
- Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, by Robert Falcon Scott (1913) PG 11579
- Everest: The West Ridge, by Thomas Hornbein (1965)
- Journey Without Maps, by Graham Greene (1936)
- Starlight and Storm, by Gaston Rébuffat (1954)
- My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir (1911) PG 32540
- My Life as an Explorer, by Sven Hedin (1925)
- In Trouble Again, by Redmond O'Hanlon (1988)
- The Man Who Walked Through Time, by Colin Fletcher (1968)
- K2—The Savage Mountain, by Charles Houston and Robert Bates (1954)
- Gipsy Moth Circles the World, by Francis Chichester (1967)
- Man-Eaters of Kumaon, by Jim Corbett (1944)
- Alone, by Richard Byrd (1938)
- Stranger in the Forest, by Eric Hansen (1988)
- Travels in Arabia Deserta, by Charles M. Doughty (1888) (vol 2 of abridgement in DP) TIA TIA (Joe Cooper can supply illustrations) (Zora can supply scans)
- The Royal Road to Romance, by Richard Halliburton (1925)
- The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz (1956)
- Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, by Clarence King (1872) DP
- My Journey to Lhasa, by Alexandra David-Neel (1927)
- Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, by John Hanning Speke (1863) PG 3284
- Running the Amazon, by Joe Kane (1989)
- Alive, by Piers Paul Read (1974)
- Principall Navigations, by Richard Hakluyt (1589-1590)
PG 7182
PG 7466
PG 7476
PG 7769
PG 7900
PG 8107
PG 9148
PG 9815
PG 10673
PG 11948
PG 12693
PG 13605
- Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, by John Lloyd Stephens (1843) TIA TIA TIA (Joe Cooper can supply illustrations)
- Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase (1821)
- Life in the Far West, by George Frederick Ruxton (1849) TIA TIA TIA
- My Life as an Explorer, by Roald Amundsen (1927)
- News from Tartary, by Peter Fleming (1936)
- Annapurna: A Woman's Place, by Arlene Blum (1980)
- Mutiny on the Bounty, by William Bligh (1790) PG 20337
- Adrift, by Steven Callahan (1986)
- Castaways, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555) PG 11071 (Spanish only)
- Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson (1989)
- Tracks, by Robyn Davidson (1980)
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving (1837) PG 1372
- Cooper's Creek, by Alan Moorehead (1963)
- The Fearful Void, by Geoffrey Moorhouse (1974)
- No Picnic on Mount Kenya, by Felice Benuzzi (1953)
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness, by Theodore Roosevelt (1914) PG 11746
- The Road to Oxiana, by Robert Byron (1937)
- Minus 148°, by Art Davidson (1969)
- Travels, by Ibn Battúta (circa 1354)
- Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, by Tim Cahill (1987)
- Journal of a Trapper, by Osborne Russell (1914) TIA
- Full Tilt, by Dervla Murphy (1965)
- Terra Incognita, by Sara Wheeler (1996)
- We Die Alone, by David Howarth (1955)
- Kabloona, by Gontran de Poncins (1941)
- Conquistadors of the Useless, by Lionel Terray (1961)
- Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins (1974)
- Adventures in the Wilderness, by William H. H. Murray (1869) TIA
- The Mountains of My Life, by Walter Bonatti (1998)
- Great Heart, by James West Davidson and John Rugge (1988)
- Journal of the Voyage to the Pacific, by Alexander Mackenzie (1801)
- The Valleys of the Assassins, by Freya Stark (1934)
- The Silent World, by Jacques Cousteau (1953)
- Alaska Wilderness, by Robert Marshall (1956)
- Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, by George Catlin (1841) TIA (Joe Cooper can supply illustrations)
- I Married Adventure, by Osa Johnson (1940)
- The Descent of Pierre Saint-Martin, by Norbert Casteret (1954)
- The Crystal Horizon, by Reinhold Messner (1982)
- Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River, by John Kirk Townsend (1839) TIA TIA
- Grizzly Years, by Doug Peacock (1990)
- One Man's Mountains, by Tom Patey (1971)
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