Expeditions & Discoveries
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Build Your Own Stonehenge
$13.95 Add to cartExplore and replicate the magic of this extraordinary monument in miniature scale right at your desktop!
- Specifications: Includes 16 Stonehenge rocks and landscaped puzzle map
- Illustrated mini book:
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Beard, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894141770
- Language: English
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Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell
$27.00 Add to cartCanada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old.
In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the N- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0735236860
- Language: English
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Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
$33.00 Add to cartThe riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver–and one man’s obsessive quest to find it–from the New York Times be… [more below]
- Author: Sancton, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593594177
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$18.99 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely hero
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371413
- Language: English
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Titan Unfinished: An Untold Story of Exploration, Innovation, and the Oceangate Tragedy
$32.00 Add to cartA firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofo… [more below]
- Author: Söhnlein, Guillermo A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1637747675
- Language: English
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The Explorers Club Presents: Letters from the Edge: Stories of Curiosity, Bravery, and Discovery
$32.00 Add to cartAn exhilarating collection of letters and stories from the world-renowned Explorers Club, featuring firsthand accounts of crossing boundaries and making history over the past century
For centuries, ex- Author: The Explorers Club
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593240030
- Language: English
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The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
$30.00 Add to cartThe true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica’s deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot
Summer, 1856- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1250352584
- Language: English
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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$12.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$9.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wilderness between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast. This volume contains the vivid dail… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Bakeless, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531884
- Language: English
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Marco Polo: The Journey That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartOriginally published by Transworld Publishers in 2009 with the title Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe’s discovery of the East.
- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0062375075
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur … [more below]
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1982199628
- Language: English
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
$24.00 Add to cartThe revolutionary account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, through the eyes of the vanished, challenging colonial narratives and centering Aztec voices
A limited Beacon Classics edition, with a gorg- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807019054
- Language: English
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History (25th Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cartThe 25th anniversary edition of the much-beloved true adventure tale of Nathaniel Courthope; “A magnificent piece of popular history” (The Independent on Sunday).
The tiny island of Run is an insignif- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1250362873
- Language: English
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Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
$29.95 Add to cartAn authoritative, myth-piercing study of the world-famous explorer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924.
In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest i- Author: Conefrey, Mick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366350
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur … [more below]
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 198219961X
- Language: English
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Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
$29.95 Add to cartArctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mys
- Author: McGoogan, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1771623683
- Language: English
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A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court
$32.99 Add to cartAn incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England.
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men–led by a- Author: Lockley, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1335016716
- Language: English
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The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
$32.50 Add to cartRenowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers in this fascinating “blend of history, science, art, biography, and … [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Kenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1668007592
- Language: English
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$32.50 Add to cartA fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary–and often overlooked–adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the
- Author: Bellows, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0063227401
- Language: English
