Expeditions & Discoveries
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South: The Endurance Expedition
$22.00 Add to cartAs war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437794
- Language: English
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The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
$27.00 Add to cartAround 330 b.c., a remarkable adventurer named Pytheas set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille) on the Mediterranean Sea to explore the fabled, terrifying lands of northern Europe. Re… [more below]
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002542
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Tahiti
$13.50 Add to cartRomance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century European adventurers who discovered the island. It was not just
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0992258855
- Language: English
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
$19.99 Add to cart“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseem?ler world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable st… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1416535349
- Language: English
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
$24.99 Add to cartThe Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms… [more below]
- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0786884460
- Language: English
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Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
$27.00 Add to cartIn 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea’s drift closer to the … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0375754725
- Language: English
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Life Lessons from Explorers: Learn How to Weather Life’s Storms from History’s Greatest Explorers
$14.95 Read moreGreat explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from th
- Author: Aston, Felicity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1787396118
- Language: English
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Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America
$24.95 Add to cartOne hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark’s “Voyage of Discovery” (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate jo… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080326626X
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Speech
$18.99 Read moreThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
“A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theo- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0316404632
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Read moreIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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A Grail Quest
$27.99 Add to cartGrail Quests often begin with what seems like normal travel adventures, but then suddenly turn into divine synchronistic events that makes one feel as though they’re being guided by the Universe. I wa
- Author: Ball, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888964477
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World: With Scott in Antarctica 1910-1913
$18.95 Add to cartThe Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece.–The New York Review of Books
When people ask me, ‘What is your favorite travel book?’ I near… [more below]- Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0486477320
- Language: English
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The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest
$10.95 Add to cartOf the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover North America, only four returned. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1528-1536 expedition crackles with excitement, relating the survivors’ journey a… [more below]
- Author: Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0486431800
- 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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A Brief History of Thailand: Monarchy, War and Resilience: The Fascinating Story of the Gilded Kingdom at the Heart of Asia
$16.99 Add to cartThailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there’s much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize.
A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at th- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Ruth, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0804851212
- Language: English
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Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
$19.95 Add to cartTupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship’s translator. Lauded by Europeans as an “extraordinary genius,” Tupaia was a star navigator
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0995130906
- Language: English
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The Conquistadors
$12.99 Add to cartWith startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the wor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0195392299
- Language: English
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Alaska Homesteader’s Handbook: Independent Living on the Last Frontier
$18.95 Add to cartA remarkable compilation of practical information for living in one of the most impractical and inhospitable landscapes in the United States. More than forty pioneer types ranging from their mid-ninet… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0882408119
- Language: English
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99 Add to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- Language: English
