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 Add to cartIn 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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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 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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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- 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
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Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
$19.99 Add to cartGreatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas–offering new revelations and a radical rethin
- Author: Menzies, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0062236784
- Language: English
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America’s Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It
$17.99 Add to cartA fascinating and entertaining look at the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesia–and the price they paid for their breakthrough.
On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one operation was scheduled
- Author: Fenster, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0060933178
- Language: English
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Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World
$35.00 Add 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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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated
$22.00 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Huntford, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375754741
- Language: English
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A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon
$27.99 Add to cartTag along with clever guide John O’Connor as he leads us on a gonzo journey through the history of psychedelics, the Amazon rainforest, and into the cosmic dimensions of our own minds. This will be th
- Author: O’Connor, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1464218080
- 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 Art of Biodiversity: Artists & Naturalists, 1700-1900
$35.00 Add to cartStrikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the ast
- Author: Himmel, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1419777254
- Language: English
