Books like Expedition Kon-Tiki

Expedition Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl reads as adventurous, inspiring. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

On desert trails with Everett Ruess

Everett Ruess · 1940

Shares the quest thread

72% genome match

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 1922

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

Annapurna-conquest of the first 8000 metre peak

Maurice Herzog · 1951

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

Guts

Gary Paulsen · 2000

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

Skeletons on the Zahara

Dean King · 2004

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

The secret knowledge of water

Craig Childs · 2000

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

Jennifer L. Armstrong · 1998

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

Buried dreams

Tim Cahill · 1986

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

Mawson's will

Lennard Bickel · 1977

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

The Endurance

Caroline Alexander · 1998

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

The climb

Anatoli Boukreev · 1997

Shares the quest thread

69% genome match

South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton · 1919

Shares the quest thread

74% genome match