Which are the best extraordinary voyages?
Sailing the circumference of your mother.
>>7465640
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Mysterious Island (be sure to read Leagues first)
also, Verne >>>>> Wells
Around the World in Eighty Days
Huh, I was thinking 'bout reading some Verne. You all sound like a knowledgeable bunch, may be I'll go ahead and help myself to a novel or two by one, J. Verne.
Heart of Darkness
Who needs fiction when you have Ernest Shackleton?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition
>>7466253
>Who needs fiction
Fiction is more honest than non-fiction* about the liberties it takes with truth.
>>7466081
Around the day in eighty worlds.
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No, really' by Julio Cortázar. Totally recomendable
>>7467016
Yes, in fact I >>7465719 have it on my bookshelf, waiting for me.
>>7466253
Based Shackleton
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
La Longue route; seul entre mers et ciels 1971. Translated as The Long Way by William Rodarmor, 1973.
And the classic that started the subgenre:
http://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Alone-Around-Joshua-Slocum/dp/0486203263
>>7465640
Chaikin's A Man On The Moon is the authoritative chronicle of the Apollo program, the most extraordinary voyage ever.
