Posting this in fiction, rather than non, as more traffic here.
I want to add an absolute doorstop of a historical exploration book to my Christmas wishlist - something akin to Scott/Shackleton's diaries, or the wonderful book about Everest, Into the Silence.
Recommendations please! Don't mind if it's diaries or commentary written at the time it happened, or if it's a historical retrospective, as it were. I love polar and mountain stuff the most, but maybe the Nile or something might entice me too. :)