Expeditions & Discoveries
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Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World
$35.00 Read moreA 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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The Greatest Templar Tale Never Told: The Sinclair/Weymss Journals
$26.00 Add 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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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
$21.99 Add 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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The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado’s Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
$35.00 Add 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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Secrets of Antarctica: The Untold History of the Ice Continent
$24.95 Add 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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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue
$20.00 Add 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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The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
$30.00 Add 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
$12.00 Add 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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Marco Polo: The Journey That Changed the World
$18.99 Add 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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Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
$29.95 Add 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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Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
$29.95 Add 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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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$32.50 Add 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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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue
$32.00 Add 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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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Bellows, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 006322741X
- Language: English
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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
$29.99 Add 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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Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money
$22.95 Add to cartLegendary 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
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Exploration Map by Map: From Migrations and Encounters to Voyages and Discoveries
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history – map by map.
Charting everything from the movem- Series: DK History Map by Map
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593963598
- Language: English
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy–from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and De… [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0385543107
- Language: English
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The Journals of Captain Cook
$18.00 Add to cartThe writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer–the subject of New York Times bestselling historian Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea
John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacif… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cook, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140436472
- Language: English
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
$19.00 Read more“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”–The Wall Street Journal
A timely, thrilling acc
“A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history.”–Nature- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0143128957
- Language: English
