Expeditions & Discoveries
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South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
$35.00 Add to cartExperience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0760364826
- Language: English
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s
- Author: Nicandri, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224152
- Language: English
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The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
$19.00 Add to cartThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling advent… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476753873
- Language: English
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Sacajawea
$21.95 Add to cartIn the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 1806.
- Author: Howard, Harold P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0806115785
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia’s Largest Nation
$16.95 Add to cartSultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World’s Largest Archipelago
Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Hannigan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0804844763
- Language: English
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
$16.99 Read moreOne of Library Journal‘s 10 Best Books of 2015
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0062315420
- Language: English
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Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
$23.95 Add to cartDavid J. Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed… [more below]
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235119
- Language: English
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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt
$27.00 Add to cartFrom longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have tried an
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0802126936
- Language: English
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloo
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean [is] a pleasure to read from bow to stern.”–Entertainment Weekly
“In Stephan Talty’s hands, the b… [more below]- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0307236617
- Language: English
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scien- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825198
- 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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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story
$18.95 Read moreNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded tog- Author: Mikkelsen, Ejnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423347
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
$24.95 Add to cartFollowing orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 497
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803280394
- Language: English
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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
$17.99 Add to cartThe story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery–and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history
It bega- Author: Reséndez, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0063269066
- Language: English
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
$19.00 Add to cart“A treasure of a book.”–David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the N- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004839
- Language: English
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The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival
$17.99 Add to cartIncredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West.
The “mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements- Author: Brennan, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1510719040
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$16.00 Add to cartBartolom? de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus’s voyages, Las Casas was so horrified… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Las Casas, Bartolom? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445625
- Language: English
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The White Nile
$19.99 Add to cart“A truly great work–massive, monumental. . . . A wonderful story of heroism, a superb feat of research. . . . The best book of its kind.” —Baltimore Sun
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan M
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956399
- Language: English
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The Jerusalem Files: The Secret Journey of the Menorah to Oak Island
$22.95 Read moreA non-fiction Da Vinci Code for the 21st century, this thrilling treasure hunt traces the voyage of the legendary Jewish Menorah from the Jerusalem of the Knights Templar through France, Portugal and … [more below]
- Author: Mol, Corjan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1786788365
- Language: English
