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Things in Nature Merely GrowYiyun Li202526 pts2 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxMemoir & AutobiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Gulf: The Making of an American SeaJack E. Davis201826 pts2 wins4 listsLiverightNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of SpaceAdam Higginbotham202524 pts2 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter WorldJohn Vaillant202424 pts1 wins6 listsKnopfNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
From Beirut to JerusalemThomas L. Friedman198822 pts4 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentMemoir & Personal History+2
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern LandscapeBarry Lopez198620 pts2 wins2 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenHisham Matar201620 pts1 wins4 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of WarLucy Hughes-Hallett201318 pts3 wins3 listsFourth EstateBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. IIJanet Browne199618 pts3 wins3 listsUnknown imprintBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild WestRebecca Solnit200318 pts2 wins3 listsPenguin BooksTechnologyLiterature & Writers+2
Border: A Journey to the Edge of EuropeKapka Kassabova201718 pts1 wins3 listsGraywolf PressTravel & PlaceNatural History & Animals+2
Fathoms: The World in the WhaleRebecca Giggs202118 pts1 wins4 listsSimon & SchusterNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and ResistanceMia Bay202216 pts2 wins3 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams DeferredChanda Prescod-Weinstein202116 pts2 wins3 listsBold Type BooksScienceBlack History & Culture+3
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward CurtisTimothy Egan201216 pts2 wins3 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of EmpireNandini Das202316 pts1 wins3 listsBloomsburyHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild CoastMarjoleine Kars202114 pts2 wins2 listsThe New PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake202014 pts2 wins2 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan PeopleElizabeth A. Fenn201414 pts2 wins2 listsHill and WangHistoryIndigenous History+2
Young Men and FireNorman Maclean199214 pts2 wins2 listsUniversity of Chicago PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake BayWilliam W. Warner197614 pts2 wins2 listsLittle, BrownNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Sea Around UsRachel Carson195014 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+2
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among GhostsMaxine Hong Kingston197614 pts2 wins2 listsKnopfMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
Mother Mary Comes to MeArundhati Roy202514 pts1 wins2 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaEvan Osnos201414 pts1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxSociety & CultureAsia & the Pacific+3
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas WolfeDavid Herbert Donald198814 pts1 wins2 listsBloomsburyBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?Susan Sheehan198214 pts1 wins2 listsHoughton MifflinMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place
Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, TeacherRay Allen Billington197314 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
The Yellow HouseSarah M. Broom202114 pts1 wins3 listsGrove PressMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human LandscapeCal Flyn202114 pts1 wins4 listsHarperCollinsNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+1
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A MemoirIngrid Rojas Contreras202214 pts0 wins4 listsDoubledayMemoir & AutobiographyBusiness Biography+2
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a NationImani Perry202312 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsSociety & CultureTravel, Exploration & Place
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship EssexNathaniel Philbrick200012 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin BooksHistoryNatural History & Animals+1
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New YorkRoss Perlin202412 pts1 wins2 listsGrove AtlanticRace & EthnicityHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu NoguchiHayden Herrera200112 pts1 wins2 listsThames & HudsonBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaRichard White201112 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ExtinctionsDavid Quammen199612 pts2 wins3 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul GauguinSue Prideaux202512 pts1 wins4 listsW. W. NortonBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+1
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed WorldJordan Thomas202512 pts0 wins3 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressNature & EnvironmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle CityGreg Grandin200912 pts0 wins3 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest DisasterJon Krakauer199712 pts0 wins3 listsVillardMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand CanyonKevin Fedarko202510 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Question 7Richard Flanagan202410 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place
Homelands: A Personal History of EuropeTimothy Garton Ash202310 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentSocial Movements & Activism+3
Fifth Sun: A New History of the AztecsCamilla Townsend202010 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage BrainSarah-Jayne Blakemore201810 pts1 wins1 listsPublicAffairsScienceTravel, Exploration & Place+1
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of ChinaXiaolu Guo201710 pts1 wins1 listsGrove AtlanticMemoir & AutobiographyGroup Biography+2
Border Law: The First Seminole War and American NationhoodDeborah A. Rosen201610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+3
Augustine: Conversions and ConfessionsRobin Lane Fox201510 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneReligionLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Barbarian Days: A Surfing LifeWilliam Finnegan201510 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We MadeGaia Vince201410 pts1 wins1 listsMilkweed EditionsScienceTravel, Exploration & Place+1
The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical WorldCyprian Broodbank201310 pts1 wins1 listsThames & HudsonHistoryReconstruction+3
Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of CanadaAllan Casey200910 pts1 wins1 listsGreystone BooksTravel & PlaceScience & Discovery+3
A Place Within: Rediscovering IndiaM. G. Vassanji200810 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French ObsessionMargaret McGowan200810 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's GloryLisa Jardine200810 pts1 wins1 listsHarperHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World WarDavid Reynolds200410 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneWar & MilitaryEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to GlobalizationNeil Smith200210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressBiographyPresidential Biography+3
Annals of the Former WorldJohn McPhee200010 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxScienceAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Bad Land: An American RomanceJonathan Raban199610 pts1 wins1 listsPantheonHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+2
Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human DomesticationJohn A. Livingston199410 pts1 wins1 listsKey Porter BooksSociety & CultureTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab WorldKanan Makiya199310 pts1 wins1 listsJonathan CapePolitics & GovernmentTravel, Exploration & Place+3
Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic ExperienceBarbara Harvey199310 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryReligion & Religious Movements+2
The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of RemovalJames H. Merrell199110 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the SouthJohn Pemble198710 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressTravel & PlaceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
China: Alive in the Bitter SeaFox Butterfield198210 pts1 wins1 listsBantam BooksHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American PoetsHelen Vendler198010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressArts & CriticismTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Minutemen and Their WorldRobert A. Gross197610 pts1 wins1 listsHill and WangHistorySocial Movements & Activism+3
Passage to AraratMichael J. Arlen197510 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxTravel & PlaceTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAnnie Dillard197410 pts1 wins1 listsHarper's Magazine PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+1
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite TasksMaurice Natanson197310 pts1 wins1 listsNorthwestern University PressBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The European Discovery of America: The Northern VoyagesSamuel Eliot Morison197110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryScience & Discovery+3
Wandering through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American WinterEdwin Way Teale196510 pts1 wins1 listsDodd, Mead & CompanyNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+1
Who Walk AlonePerry Burgess194010 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthNatural History & Animals+1
Wind, Sand and StarsAntoine de Saint-Exupéry193910 pts1 wins1 listsReynal & HitchcockMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
North to the OrientAnne Morrow Lindbergh193510 pts1 wins1 listsHarcourt, Brace and CompanyTravel & PlaceTravel, Exploration & Place
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. PageSandra Djwa201310 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+1
The Last Whole Earth CatalogueStewart Brand197210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureTravel, Exploration & Place+2
My Fourth Time We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration RouteSally Hayden202210 pts1 wins3 listsMelville HousePolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De QuinceyFrances Wilson201610 pts0 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
SPQR: A History of Ancient RomeMary Beard201610 pts0 wins4 listsW. W. NortonHistoryLaw & Legal Change+2
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of DiscoveryAnthony Grafton19958 pts2 wins2 listsBelknap PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Keeper: Living with Nancy – A Journey into Alzheimer'sAndrea Gillies20098 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTravel & PlaceTravel, Exploration & Place
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High PlainsLucas Bessire20218 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyNeil Shubin20088 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The WildEllen Meloy20058 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World TradePietra Rivoli20058 pts1 wins2 listsWileyBusiness & EconomicsLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Of Wolves and MenBarry Lopez19788 pts1 wins2 listsOpen Road Integrated MediaNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree WomanRudy Wiebe, Yvonne Johnson19988 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyGender & Feminism+2
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914David McCullough19778 pts1 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryConstitutional History+2
Underland: A Deep Time JourneyRobert Macfarlane20198 pts1 wins3 listsW. W. NortonNature & EnvironmentEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Seek You: A Journey Through American LonelinessKristen Radtke20228 pts0 wins2 listsPantheonSociety & CultureTravel, Exploration & Place
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British EmpireHenrietta Harrison20218 pts0 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+1
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the QuranCarla Power20158 pts0 wins2 listsHenry HoltReligionOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them FreeHéctor Tobar20148 pts0 wins2 listsSceptreJournalism & ReportageTravel, Exploration & Place+1
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle EastAnthony Shadid20128 pts0 wins2 listsHarperCollinsMemoir & AutobiographyMiddle East & North Africa+2
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of HealingDiane Ackerman20118 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
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All awards · Topic: Travel, Exploration & Place · Sorted by score · 451 books · filtered