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Nautical history and polar exploration non-fiction from recs on tumblr by @jesslovesboats
Challenge Books
South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12
Roald Amundsen
Roald! Roald! Roald!
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated
Roland Huntford
Roald! Roald! Roald!
*Disclaimer: this guy hates Captain Scott and gets most of the Scott details wrong, read for Roald only
*Disclaimer: this guy hates Captain Scott and gets most of the Scott details wrong, read for Roald only
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
Michael Palin
The Franklin Expedition
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition
Peter Carney, Regina Koellner, Mary Williamson, Michael Palin, Russell A. Potter
The Franklin Expedition
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Caroline Alexander
non-polar sad boats
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Mike Dash
non-polar sad boats
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sebastian Junger
non-polar sad boats
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
non-polar sad boats
The Expedition: A Love Story
Bea Uusma
sometimes a balloon can be a sad boat
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
Alec Wilkinson
sometimes a balloon can be a sad boat
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
Buddy Levy
Karluk expedition
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Jennifer Niven
Karluk expedition