Six of the best books about adventure and exploration

David Grann is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. His new book, The White Darkness, is a true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic.

One of Grann's six favorite books about adventure and exploration, as shared at The Week magazine:

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (1996).

With his unflinching honesty and his ability to grip the reader, Krakauer is a master of the modern true adventure story. His book Into Thin Air, about a Mount Everest climbing disaster, is among the best adventure stories written. But its predecessor, which tells the story of a young man who disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness, illuminates perhaps better than any book I've encountered why human beings are drawn to explore the unknown — and, in the process, themselves.

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Into the Wild is among Eleanor Muffitt's twelve "books that make you want to pack your bags and trot the globe" and Brian Payton's top ten books about Alaska.

--Marshal Zeringue