Expeditions & Discoveries
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
$19.99 Add to cartUpdated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a “captivating and marvelously vivid” popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly… [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0316545562
- Language: English
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and sco
- Series: American Grit #0
- Author: Marshall, David Weston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682684423
- Language: English
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Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey from My Doorstep to the Arctic
$26.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history. Looking out his porch window one spring- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0735241015
- 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 Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
$18.99 Add to cart“WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!”
In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped wou
- Author: Wallis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494007
- 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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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
$35.00 Add to cartA blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the
- Author: Thompson, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062060872
- 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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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world–from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. – “Fascinating…Lively…A convi
- Author: Mann, Charles C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307278247
- Language: English
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The Space Shuttle: A Mission-By-Mission Celebration of Nasa’s Extraordinary Spaceflight Program
$50.00 Add to cart“Any backyard astronomer or space enthusiast would be delighted to have this visual journey on their shelf.”
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—The Strategist, The Year’s Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books- Author: Miller, Roland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 164829135X
- 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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The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
$21.99 Add to cartThe Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries–the Northwest… [more below]
- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22, 2013
- ISBN10: 0306822660
- Language: English
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
$32.50 Add to cartAN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indig
- Author: Pennock, Caroline Dodds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1524749265
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
$45.00 Read moreThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 358468329
- 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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The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration
$35.00 Read moreDiscover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world’s most prominent explorers.
The- Author: The Explorers Club
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1984859986
- Language: English
