Expeditions & Discoveries
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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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Astoria: Astor and Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an A
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062218301
- 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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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
$19.99 Read moreFrom preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus–how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.
Without calculu- Author: Strogatz, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0358299284
- Language: English
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The Trail
$35.00 Add to cartA Transformative Journey on the John Muir Trail
WINNER OF TWO LITERARY AWARDS
A NEXT GEN INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALIST
In Kirkus Reviews BEST BOOKS OF 2021 issue
“UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMENDED” -Midwest Book Revie
- Author: Gallogly, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: November 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 173741922X
- Language: English
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The White Darkness
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with c… [more below]
- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 038554457X
- Language: English
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
$35.00 Add to cartA rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity’s obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages – “Accessible and enterta
- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593318897
- Language: English
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
$23.00 Add to cart“A landmark . . . brilliantly demonstrates] has that there is far more to black history than the slave trade.”–John A. Williams
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly- Series: Journal of African Civilizations
- Author: Van Sertima, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23, 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968174
- 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
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
$19.99 Add to cart“Who hasn’t stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Christina Thompson’s Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all.”—Richard Rhodes, author of Energy: A Human History and the Pulitzer Prize winn
- Author: Thompson, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0062060880
- Language: English
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Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
$21.95 Add to cartThe dramatic story of explorer Douglas Mawson and “the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history” (Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer)
For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas- Author: Bickel, Lennard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2000
- ISBN10: 1586420003
- Language: English
