Expeditions & Discoveries
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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue
$32.00 Add to cartNational Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy’s thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.
Arctic explorer and American v- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250289181
- Language: English
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. – “A splendid book in … [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946916
- Language: English
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming … [more below]
- Author: Cockrell, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1982190469
- Language: English
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Bellows, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 006322741X
- Language: English
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Meet Me in Atlantis: Across Three Continents in Search of the Legendary Sunken City
$24.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestselling Travel Memoir
The author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu travels the globe in search of the world’s most famous lost city. “Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark A- Author: Adams, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1101983930
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
$17.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1464216665
- Language: English
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The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007606
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death … [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 525565701
- Language: English
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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
$29.99 Add to cart“A beautiful and powerful book.” –Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author
“Valuable, revelatory, and contagiously page-turning.” –David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author “Far- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668027747
- Language: English
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Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money
$22.95 Add to cartLegendary treasures. Mythical robberies. Lost riches. Buried plunder and fabulous wealth. Hidden dangers. Ancient curses and deathbed jinxes. Captivating tales of lost fortunes, hidden caches, the ete
- Author: Willis, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1578598559
- Language: English
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Exploration Map by Map: From Migrations and Encounters to Voyages and Discoveries
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history – map by map.
Charting everything from the movem- Series: DK History Map by Map
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593963598
- Language: English
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Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
$33.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. He’s scaled Mt. Everest. But in 2022, he realized there was a dream he’d never realized–to sail the Northwest Passage in … [more below]
- Author: Synnott, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471520
- Language: English
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
$20.00 Add to cartA “masterly” (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world
“Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to co- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593312562
- Language: English
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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, a jaw-dropping discovery of an Egyptian tomb opens up a slew of archaeological mysteries and deadly tales. Now in paperback with an E… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1538741237
- Language: English
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
$22.99 Add to cart“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope” (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the Califor… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1541672542
- Language: English
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
$32.50 Read moreNEW 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0385543107
- Language: English
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
$19.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Pennock, Caroline Dodds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593082532
- Language: English
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The Journals of Captain Cook
$18.00 Add to cartThe writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer–the subject of New York Times bestselling historian Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea
John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacif… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cook, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140436472
- Language: English
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
$19.00 Read more“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”–The Wall Street Journal
A timely, thrilling acc
“A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history.”–Nature- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0143128957
- Language: English
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Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’s West, 1813-1816
$23.95 Read moreThe fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who
- Author: Lower, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417184
- Language: English
