Start with high-confidence adventurers & explorers books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Emperor of the North
James Raffan
World Travel
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
The Republic of Pirates
Colin Woodard
Blue Latitudes
Tony Horwitz
The White Darkness
David Grann
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
Neptune's Fortune
Julian Sancton
Ada Blackjack
Jennifer Niven
The Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Claton Butcher
Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Robin Varnum
Boone
Robert Morgan
The Greatest Survival Stories of All Time
Cara Tabachnick
You Can't Win
Jack Black, Joe Coleman
Everest, Inc.
Will Cockrell
