Expeditions & Discoveries
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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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The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
$24.00 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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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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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 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 Read moreA 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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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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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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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 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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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
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The Travels Marco Polo
$18.00 Add to cartMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Polo, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 1958
- ISBN10: 0140440577
- Language: English
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Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic
$17.00 Read moreNational bestseller
A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from “Canada’s greatest living explorer.” In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on a- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05, 2020
- ISBN10: 0735236852
- Language: English
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The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
$38.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – A riveting account of Shackleton’s famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration–perhaps the greatest of them all—th… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375404031
- Language: English
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Along the Trail with Lewis & Clark: A Guide to the Trail Today (Revised)
$18.95 Add to cartFollow the journey of the Corps of Discovery from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello through the Midwest and the Rockies, to the Pacific Ocean and back with this detailed chronicle of the Lewis & Clark Exp… [more below]
- Author: Fifer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1560378034
- Language: English
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Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem
$20.99 Add to cart“One of the 100 best books of the year.” –The Times Literary Supplement Christopher Columbus is reevaluated as a man of deep passion, patience, and religious conviction–on a mission to save Jerusale… [more below]
- Author: Delaney, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1439102376
- Language: English
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
$22.99 Add to cartOn March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to “proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas.” When the fleet
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Menzies, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0061564893
- Language: English
