Expeditions & Discoveries
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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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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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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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Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey from My Doorstep to the Arctic
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER’S BOOK AWARD “Epic. . . . The adventure of a lifetime.” –Global News From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a grippin- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0735241031
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Scandinavia: 14,000 Years from the Stone Age and the Vikings to the Happiest Nations in the World
$16.95 Add to cartOutsiders have long viewed Scandinavia as special, starting with the ancient Greeks and their myths of Ultima Thule, a place “where the Sun goes to rest.” Today, we admire Scandinavia for its universa
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Kuldkepp, Mart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893030914
- Language: English
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Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
$35.00 Add to cartThe riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over 1 billion dollars in gold and silver–and one man’s obsessive quest to find it–from the New York T… [more below]
- Author: Sancton, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 615
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217169030
- Language: English
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Build Your Own Stonehenge
$13.95 Add to cartExplore and replicate the magic of this extraordinary monument in miniature scale right at your desktop!
- Specifications: Includes 16 Stonehenge rocks and landscaped puzzle map
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- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Beard, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894141770
- Language: English
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Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell
$27.00 Add to cartCanada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old.
In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the N- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0735236860
- Language: English
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Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
$33.00 Add to cartThe riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver–and one man’s obsessive quest to find it–from the New York Times be… [more below]
- Author: Sancton, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593594177
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$18.99 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely hero
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371413
- Language: English
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Titan Unfinished: An Untold Story of Exploration, Innovation, and the Oceangate Tragedy
$32.00 Add to cartA firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofo… [more below]
- Author: Söhnlein, Guillermo A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1637747675
- Language: English
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The Explorers Club Presents: Letters from the Edge: Stories of Curiosity, Bravery, and Discovery
$32.00 Add to cartAn exhilarating collection of letters and stories from the world-renowned Explorers Club, featuring firsthand accounts of crossing boundaries and making history over the past century
For centuries, ex- Author: The Explorers Club
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593240030
- 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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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- 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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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$9.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wilderness between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast. This volume contains the vivid dail… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Bakeless, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531884
- 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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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur … [more below]
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1982199628
- Language: English
