Discoveries in geography
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Pacific Voyages: The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean
$49.95 Read more“Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller’s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms
- Author: Miller, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1771623470
- Language: English
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
$16.99 Add to cart“You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?” asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. “What the ice gets, ” replied Sir Ernest Shackleton,
- Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319946
- Language: English
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scien- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825198
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Countries That Don’t Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States
$29.95 Add to cartWhat is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of 50 states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations memb… [more below]
- Author: Middleton, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1452158681
- Language: English
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Giant Island
$18.95 Read moreIn this wondrous book by award-winning fantasy author Jane Yolen and award-winning fantasy illustrator Doug Keith, two children and a dog explore the coves and caves of a tiny island. Under the watchf… [more below]
- Author: Keith, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1947277189
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Kids Explorapedia
$19.99 Read moreGet ready to travel across the world and back into history, to meet some of the world’s greatest explorers in this big fun, fully illustrated reference book. Readers will learn about both famous – and
- Series: Lonely Planet Kids
- Author: Marriott, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1838695206
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$19.99 Read moreWith nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a sing… [more below]
- Author: Clark, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 142621717X
- Language: English
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Captain George Vancouver in Alaska and the North Pacific
$26.95 Add to cartTwo of the Northwest Coast’s largest cities and its most prominent island are named after the British explorer, George Vancouver, who is largely unknown despite his unprecedented five-year voyage duri… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1578336732
- Language: English
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Leo Africanus
$25.43 Add to cartAn imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa.
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 25 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310220
- Language: English
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Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
$38.00 Add to cartCândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked h
- Author: Rohter, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: 30-May-23
- ISBN10: 1324021268
- Language: English
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The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration
$35.00 Read moreDiscover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world’s most prominent explorers.
The- Author: The Explorers Club
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1984859986
- Language: English
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Ascension
$0.00 Read moreNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE!
“You’ve gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror.”—Stephen King “Smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategicall- Author: Binge, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0593539583
- Language: English
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Desert Jungle
$18.99 Read moreStriking mixed-media art from the creator of Mirror lights up the Sonoran Desert, revealing–through one wary boy’s experience–a habitat that is anything but barren and desolate.
In a desert valley,- Author: Baker, Jeannie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1536225770
- Language: English
