Expeditions & Discoveries
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
$32.50 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066210
- Language: English
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The Moon’s Galactic History: A Look at the Moon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Its Connection to Earth
$22.00 Read moreThe Moon’s Galactic History: A Look at the Moon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Its Connection to Earth, follows the past and present research about the Moon’s strange, enigmatic history, with a focus on … [more below]
- Author: Briggs, Constance Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 194880350X
- Language: English
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Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
$26.95 Read more2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Special Jury Mention
“A book every thoughtful adventurer and seeker of dreams should read.” — Outside- Author is a renowned writer in international climbing com
- Author: Ives, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1680515411
- Language: English
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Pacific Voyages: The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean
$49.95 Read more“Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller’s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms
- Author: Miller, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1771623470
- Language: English
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The Blue Nile
$17.99 Add to cartIn the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterra
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956402
- Language: English
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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
$27.95 Read moreIf we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthrough
- Author: Stein, James D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888487
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
$30.00 Read moreFrom the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On th… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160182
- Language: English
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
$19.99 Add to cart“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” –Bill Bryson
Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter M
- Author: Palin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1771645725
- Language: English
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE – A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Div… [more below]
- Author: Kurson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0812973690
- Language: English
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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage Through the Amazon
$19.99 Read moreThe acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history’s greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurer’s death-defying navigation of the Amazon River.
- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1635769191
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$22.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 132407387X
- Language: English
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Everest 24: New Views on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition
$39.95 Read moreCommemorating the 100th anniversary of an enduring Everest mystery, this book sheds new light on the ill-fated 1924 Mount Everest expedition
Features unseen and rarely seen expedition images and cultu- Author: Tenzing, Norbu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1588347826
- Language: English
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Morning of Fire: America’s Epic First Journey Into the Pacific
$24.99 Add to cartMorning of Fire by Scott Ridley is the thrilling story of 18th century American explorer and expeditioner John Kedrick as he journeyed for land and trade in the Pacific. Set against the backdrop of on
- Author: Ridley, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0061700193
- Language: English
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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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Through the Brazilian Wilderness – An Epic Adventure of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition: Organization and Members of the Expedition, Cooper
$13.10 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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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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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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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
