Expeditions & Discoveries
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Bot… [more below]
- Author: Buck, Rinker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1501106376
- Language: English
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Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
$28.99 Add to cartIn July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez and Silvestre V lez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new Spanish missions in California, across the huge expans
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358453
- Language: English
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
$19.00 Read moreOne of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Powell, John Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437522
- Language: English
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
$20.00 Add to cartNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner
Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award
“A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put thi- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250782066
- Language: English
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Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
$17.99 Add to cartTwo hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, d
- Author: Burleigh, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 09, 2008
- ISBN10: 0060597682
- Language: English
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The Essential Lewis and Clark
$15.99 Add to cartThis compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure–in their own words
The jou
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Jones, Landon Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: March 19, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060011599
- Language: English
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
$20.00 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expedition
- Author: Pitzer, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982113359
- Language: English
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
$28.00 Add to cartA dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cort s that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquista
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 006242727X
- Language: English
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
$29.99 Read moreNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.
In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250274443
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes: Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition
$18.00 Add to cartAt the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they tr
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 12, 2007
- ISBN10: 1400077494
- 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
$20.00 Add to cartFrom 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161227
- Language: English
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
$21.99 Add to cart“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review
The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.
Ferdinand Magellan’s daring circumnav
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0062890484
- Language: English
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
$20.00 Add to cartNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.
In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: 5-Dec-23
- ISBN10: 1250871638
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
$22.00 Add to cart- Author: Buck, Rinker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1501106384
- Language: English
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Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
$30.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review‘s “100 Notable Books of 2023”
“Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read–I highly, highly recommend it” — Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestselle- Author: Hartman, Darrell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593297164
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
$26.99 Add to cart“A winning portrait of America at its weirdest.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches hi
- Author: O’Connor, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1464216630
- Language: English
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy–from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and De… [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0525435646
- Language: English
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait–the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s ha… [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0767913736
- Language: English
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New Yo… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 1400078458
- Language: English
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a t
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1455540013
- Language: English
