Books like End of the Earth by Peter Matthiessen
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Travel & Geography/Travel Writing
Authors: Peter Matthiessen
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 (0 community ratings)
How are these books recommended?
The books recommended for End of the Earth by Peter Matthiessen are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.
Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier
for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.
Books similar to End of the Earth (11 similar books)
After graduating college, journalist Jon Krakauer traces the true story of Christopher McCandless, a young adventurer who abandoned possessions, took the name Alexander Supertramp, and ventured into Alaska’s wilderness, where he met his untimely death.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
David Grann’s investigative narrative unravels the mystery of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s 1925 disappearance while he sought the legendary Lost City of Z beneath the Amazon’s dense jungle.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
With bold adventure and biographical insight, Candice Millard recounts Theodore Roosevelt’s perilous 1913–14 descent of an uncharted Amazon tributary, exposing the harsh jungle, violent rapids, and personal trials that reshaped a nation’s map.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Journeying through Nepal’s Dolpo highlands, Peter Matthiessen and biologist George Schaller track the elusive snow leopard while exploring Buddhist spirituality and Himalayan wilderness.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s first‑hand diary of the 1914‑17 Imperial Trans‑Antarctic Expedition, detailing the Endurance’s crushing by ice, the crew’s nine‑month ordeal on drifting ice, and their daring survival against the polar wilderness.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In 1906, while visiting his journalist uncle in California, thirteen-year-old Jerry hears the San Francisco earthquake predicted at preacher William Seymour's Pentecostal mission, sees the ensuing destruction, and learns the power of the Holy Ghost.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
An engaging juvenile biography that follows Ferdinand Magellan’s daring voyage to circumnavigate the globe, exploring themes of exploration, adventure, and the cultural encounters of early 16th‑century Portugal and Europe.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A gripping nonfiction narrative of the 19th‑century Jeannette expedition to the North Pole, detailing the shipwreck, survival efforts, and the roles of cartographer August Petermann, shipowner James Gordon Bennett, and captain George W. De Long.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Roland Huntford’s compelling dual biography chronicles the fierce South Pole race between Britain’s Scott and Norway’s Amundsen, revealing ambition, rivalry and the harsh realities of polar exploration.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Describes the author's time working as a basecamp doctor at Antarctica's Halley research station and his fascination with the emperor penguin community that shared the icy continent with him.
Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. It was a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and a very little human history, but also a rare opportunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in the Antarctic. Francis explores the world of great beauty conjured from the simplest of elements, the hardship of living at 50c below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Some Other Similar Books
The Wild Silence by Erica WagnerDeath in the Long Grass by Peter Stark
An Unnatural History by Carter Wilkerson
The Polar Regions by Stephen R. Roney
Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!
Please login to submit books!