Expeditions & Discoveries
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
$18.99 Add to cartLearn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and “a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history’s most famous explorers…[with] infusio… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1451677588
- Language: English
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The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier
$18.00 Add to cartA lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts… [more below]
- Author: Flannery, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137199
- Language: English
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
$21.95 Add to cartThe legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American e… [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Leroy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803272103
- Language: English
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The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World
$16.99 Add to cartNever tell a woman where she doesn’t belong.
In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that “women are not
- Author: Zanglein, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1728239583
- Language: English
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Through the Brazilian Wilderness – An Epic Adventure of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition: Organization and Members of the Expedition, Cooper
$12.10 Add to cartThis book is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland. In 1914 Theodore Roosevelt with his son, Kermit and Colonel Rondon traveled to South America on a quest to … [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 16 2019
- ISBN10: 8027334535
- Language: English
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The Ship, the Saint, and the Sailor: The Long Search for the Legendary Kad’yak
$17.99 Add to cartThe true story about a shipwreck discovery, exciting explorations, broken alliances, and returning a lost piece of Alaskan history.
Since its sinking in 1860 while transporting a valuable cargo of ic- Author: Stevens, Bradley G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1513261371
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“Particularly valuable for Ronda’s inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper pe
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803289901
- Language: English
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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
$19.95 Add to cartHere, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden’s historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. Th… [more below]
- Author: Merrill, Marlene Deahl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282893
- Language: English
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in what is now Arizona), to lead two expeditions: the first to find a safe overland route to Monter… [more below]
- Series: California Legacy Book
- Author: Guerrero, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597140260
- Language: English
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The Hidden Journals: Captain Vancouver & His Mapmaker
$20.00 Add to cartHIstory turns into mystery when the authors begin to research the oral stories about Wade Baker’s ancestor, Third Lieutenant Joseph Baker, mapmaker on HMS Discovery. from 1791 to 1795. Memories from G
- Author: Tasi, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0993843816
- Language: English
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Mapping the NC Coast: Sixteenth-Century Cartography and the Roanoke Voyages
$12.00 Add to cartHistorical survey that examines the cartography known or available to the English colonists of 1584-1587 as well as that which they produced during their explorations. Includes twenty-eight map plates… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0865262322
- Language: English
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Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America
$26.99 Add to cartSchneider’s thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget.
A gripping survival epic,
—The New York Times Book Review- Author: Schneider, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0805083200
- Language: English
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
$24.95 Add to cartCritics have called David Lavender a “master storyteller” (Library Journal), his prose “virile, disciplined, yet personal” (New York Times), and his book “a balanced, learned, and lively history of an… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803280033
- Language: English
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Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History
$27.00 Add to cartThe world’s greatest archaeological finds and what they tell us about lost civilizations
Renowned archaeologist Patrick Hunt brings his top ten list of ancient archaeological discoveries to life in t- Author: Hunt, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288770
- Language: English
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The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told
$31.58 Add to cartThe Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traverse
- Series: Greatest
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071009
- Language: English
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Everyone’s Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11
$36.33 Add to cartEveryone’s Gone to the Moon is a week-by-week journey through July 1969, one of the most pivotal months in human history – in space and here on Earth. This unique book follows the crew of Apollo 11 an
- Author: Cuhaj, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888819
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain
$27.95 Read moreThe dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922.
The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George- Author: Conefrey, Mick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361456
- Language: English
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartTelling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, Admiral of the Ocean Sea is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the wo… [more below]
- Author: Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 12 1991
- ISBN10: 0316584789
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age
$28.00 Add to cartA “lively and engaging” history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion.
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity o- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0316545317
- Language: English
