Adventurers & Explorers
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
$19.99 Add to cart“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the Wo
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062875361
- Language: English
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American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
$26.99 Read moreImam Taymullah Abdur-Rahman’s incredible life story weaves the contemporary Black American experience with the Black Muslim American experience and emphasizes the role of interreligious dialogue in th
- Author: Abdur-Rahman, Taymullah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1506489281
- Language: English
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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt
$27.00 Add to cartFrom longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have tried an
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0802126936
- Language: English
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have d
- Author: Heinerth, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062691554
- Language: English
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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt
$19.00 Add to cartUPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR
In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the gene- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0802148271
- Language: English
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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
$20.00 Add to cartTrue Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca.
This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after bein- Author: Ricca, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250846722
- Language: English
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The Last American Man
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings t- Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002836
- Language: English
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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story
$18.95 Read moreNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded tog- Author: Mikkelsen, Ejnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423347
- Language: English
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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
$17.99 Add to cartThe story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery–and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history
It bega- Author: Reséndez, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0063269066
- Language: English
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Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands
$17.95 Read moreA dynamic examination that traces the lives of two of the most influential figures–and their dueling approaches–on America’s natural landscape.
John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American hist- Author: Clayton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1643136097
- Language: English
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
$21.99 Add to cartThe astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South.
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton- Author: Hamilton, Mary Mann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316341371
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would t
- Author: Yale, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1912716356
- Language: English
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Hemingway: The Paris Years: The Paris Years (Revised)
$29.99 Add to cartThe 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer, whether he was sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318796
- Language: English
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Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story
$20.00 Add to cartDon Sheldon has been called ‘Alaska’s bush pilot among bush pilots’, but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-r
- Author: Greiner, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 1982
- ISBN10: 0312853378
- Language: English
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah dese… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0307591778
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
$21.99 Read more“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0062079611
- Language: English
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Northern Lights: A History of the Arctic Scots
$32.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable–yet often overlooked or misidentified–Scottish contribution to Arctic explora… [more below]
- Author: Cowan, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362703
- Language: English
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Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
$28.00 Add to cart“As sensitive and touching as it is urgent . . . [Wild Life is] a poignant exploration of the natural world.” –O, The Oprah Magazine
“Wild Life is the bushwacking, honest, and inspiring memoir I wish- Author: Wynn-Grant, Rae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1638930406
- Language: English
