Expeditions & Discoveries
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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
$19.99 Add to cartExperience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 attempt to reach the
- Author: Lansing, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 28, 2015
- ISBN10: 0465062881
- Language: English
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
$17.99 Add to cartA gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.
On November 5
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0062133403
- Language: English
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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
$18.99 Read moreIn 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumph… [more below]
- Author: Lansing, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0842308245
- Language: English
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American hist… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 521
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0684826976
- 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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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670363X
- Language: English
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The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Children of Ash and Elm, an intimate, continent-spanning human journey through the Viking world.
For centuries, Vikings have been stereotyped as brutish and violent pill- Author: Price, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1541603044
- Language: English
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The Endurance Photographs: A Definitive Visual Record of Shackleton’s Expedition
$45.00 Read moreExperience Sir Ernest Shackleton’s fascinating and harrowing journey as never before. This deluxe art book presents the first high-quality prints of all surviving photographs from the 1914 polar exped
- Author: The Royal Geographical Society
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 1797245287
- Language: English
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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
$40.00 Read moreNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States–and lit… [more below]
- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 743
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217414017
- Language: English
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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
$38.00 Read moreNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States–and lit… [more below]
- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0525562230
- Language: English
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The Quest for El Dorado: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Search for the City of Gold
$29.95 Read moreA new history of the Renaissance’s greatest feat of exploration: Sir Walter Ralegh’s search for the legendary city of El Dorado, by New York Times bestselling author David Gibbins.
In 1594, English ad- Author: Gibbins, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101863
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone Around the World (Nimbus)
$14.95 Read more“Few books send forth such a tangy breeze of salt air.” –Oceanography As the first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum is celebrated as the “patron saint of small-boat voy… [more below]
- Author: Slocum, Captain Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1551099314
- Language: English
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The Museum of Lost Things: True Tales of Fabled Treasures, Legendary Cities, and Mythical Creatures That Vanished from History
$35.00 Read moreDiscover the astonishing story of the world’s greatest lost treasures in this enthralling narrative by a writer with “the anecdotal flourishes of Oliver Sacks and the populist accessibility of Malcolm… [more below]
- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1426223862
- Language: English
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The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest
$31.00 Read 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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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
$20.00 Add 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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The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
$21.00 Add to cartWhen a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, Finkel could hardly believe his luck. What he discov
- Author: Finkel, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0345804392
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
$25.00 Add 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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Forgotten: How One Man Unlocked the Modern World
$26.99 Add 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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How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
$27.00 Add to cartDismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national embl… [more below]
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140280561
- Language: English
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Space Journal: Art, Science and Cosmic Exploration
$45.00 Add to cartAn endless source of fascination, space is both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. Space Journal is a visual celebration of our perception of the cosmos across centuries and cultur
- Author: Campbell, Dallas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0500028184
- Language: English
