Expeditions & Discoveries
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By: Summers, Julie
The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest
$31.00HardcoverRead moreThe unsolved mysteries of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and their legendary 1924 Everest expedition
There is no mystery more compelling in the history of mountaineering than the disappearance of George- Author: Summers, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1250460824
- Language: English
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By: Holt, Nathalia
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 – A New York Times Book Review Critics’ Pick – A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 – Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Moun… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1668027755
- Language: English
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By: Horwitz, Tony
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
$25.00PaperbackAdd to cartA Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America’s history vividly to life.
What happened in North America betwe- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428324
- Language: English
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By: Dávila, Jaime
Forgotten: How One Man Unlocked the Modern World
$26.99HardcoverAdd to cartWhat if humanity’s most important invention wasn’t the steam engine or the printing press, but a machine that you’ve never heard of, built by a man that history forgot?
Eight billion people owe their l
- Author: Dávila, Jaime
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: December 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998953705
- Language: English
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By: Keating, Peter
Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartA collection of the greatest political maps in history and how these images have an unmatched power to influence our thinking–and our world.
- Author: Keating, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1579658776
- Language: English
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By: Wolter, Scott F.
The Greatest Templar Tale Never Told: The Sinclair/Weymss Journals
$26.00PaperbackAdd to cartSpanning 417 years from the first entry in 1353 to the last in 1770, the Sinclair/ Wemyss journals tell the personal stories of how fifteen generations within two Scottish clans completed a sacred mis
- Series: The Hooked X
- Author: Wolter, Scott F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1682011623
- Language: English
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By: Light, Daniel
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartWhether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges o
- Author: Light, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123575
- Language: English
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By: Stark, Peter
The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado’s Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartBy the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063383888
- Language: English
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By: Olsen, Brad
Secrets of Antarctica: The Untold History of the Ice Continent
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe first chapters of Secrets of Antarctica will question the possibility of a lost continent, and visit the land of the Patagonia giants. Next are the Age of Exploration maps depicting the Ice Contin… [more below]
- Series: Esoteric
- Author: Olsen, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1888729988
- Language: English
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By: Levy, Buddy
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartTwo-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy’s thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.
Arctic explorer and A- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250906830
- Language: English
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By: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica’s deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot
Summer, 1856- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1250352584
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$12.00PaperbackAdd to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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By: Man, John
Marco Polo: The Journey That Changed the World
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartOriginally published by Transworld Publishers in 2009 with the title Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe’s discovery of the East.
- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0062375075
- Language: English
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By: Conefrey, Mick
Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartAn authoritative, myth-piercing study of the world-famous explorer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924.
In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest i- Author: Conefrey, Mick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366350
- Language: English
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By: McGoogan, Ken
Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartArctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mys
- Author: McGoogan, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1771623683
- Language: English
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By: Bellows, Amanda
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$32.50HardcoverAdd to cartA fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary–and often overlooked–adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the
- Author: Bellows, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0063227401
- Language: English
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By: Levy, Buddy
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartNational Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy’s thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.
Arctic explorer and American v- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250289181
- Language: English
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By: Bellows, Amanda
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Bellows, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 006322741X
- Language: English
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By: Holt, Nathalia
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cart“A beautiful and powerful book.” –Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author
“Valuable, revelatory, and contagiously page-turning.” –David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author “Far- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668027747
- Language: English
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By: Willis, Jim
Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money
$22.95PaperbackRead moreLegendary treasures. Mythical robberies. Lost riches. Buried plunder and fabulous wealth. Hidden dangers. Ancient curses and deathbed jinxes. Captivating tales of lost fortunes, hidden caches, the ete
- Author: Willis, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1578598559
- Language: English


















