Expeditions & Discoveries
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
$32.50 Add to cartWhether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges o
- Author: Light, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066210
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wonder: An Ecologist’s View of Wild Alaska
$40.00 Read moreThe grizzly paused in knee-deep water, staring straight at the man behind the camera. Abruptly he bolted, racing full tilt toward Thomas Bancroft, his eyes glued to the photographer’s face. The bear k
- Author: Bancroft, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224357
- Language: English
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The Moon’s Galactic History: A Look at the Moon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Its Connection to Earth
$22.00 Read moreThe Moon’s Galactic History: A Look at the Moon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Its Connection to Earth, follows the past and present research about the Moon’s strange, enigmatic history, with a focus on … [more below]
- Author: Briggs, Constance Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 194880350X
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage
$50.00 Read moreJoseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego
- Author: Gooding, Mel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0500022879
- Language: English
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Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts
$34.95 Read moreMaritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary, little-known journals from Captain James Cook’s third exploratory voyage. They offer remarkable eyewitness accounts at
- Author: Barnett, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223571
- Language: English
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Marianne North’s Travel Writing: Every Step a Fresh Picture
$35.00 Read moreA new collection of Marianne North’s letters and travel writing.
Marianne North’s Travel Writing offers fresh insight into the pioneering traveler and artist Marianne North (1830-1890). Excerpts from- Author: Payne, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1842467956
- Language: English
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Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
$26.95 Read more2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Special Jury Mention
“A book every thoughtful adventurer and seeker of dreams should read.” — Outside- Author is a renowned writer in international climbing com
- Author: Ives, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1680515411
- Language: English
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Pacific Voyages: The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean
$49.95 Read more“Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller’s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms
- Author: Miller, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1771623470
- Language: English
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The Blue Nile
$17.99 Add to cartIn the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterra
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956402
- Language: English
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The Seventymile Kid: The Lost Legacy of Harry Karstens and the First Ascent of Mount McKinley
$19.95 Read more* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinley–setting the record straight
* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley’s first ascent
* Features arc… [more below]- Author: Walker, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1594857296
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction, Volume I: Missouri River Between Camp River DuBois (Illinois) and Fort Mandan (North Da
$30.00 Read moreThe Lewis and Clark Expedition bicentennial is producing an unprecedented flurry of interest in the United States, and an array of commemorative activities are being planned in the regions visited by
- Series: Cartographic Reconstruction #1
- Author: Plamondon II, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 13 2000
- ISBN10: 087422232X
- Language: English
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River Master: John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
$16.95 Read moreIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological s… [more below]
- Author: Kuhne, Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1682685187
- Language: English
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The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
$16.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Spellbinding adventure from Canada’s most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remo- Author: Shoalts, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0735241066
- Language: English
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The Challenger Expedition: Exploring the Ocean’s Depths
$39.95 Read morePublished to mark the 150th anniversary of the launch of the Challenger expedition, The Challenger Expedition: Exploring the Ocean’s Depths tells the story of the groundbreaking voyage that transforme… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1906367973
- Language: English
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
$16.99 Add to cart“You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?” asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. “What the ice gets, ” replied Sir Ernest Shackleton,
- Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319946
- Language: English
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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
$27.95 Read moreIf we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthrough
- Author: Stein, James D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888487
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- 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
$30.00 Read moreFrom 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160182
- Language: English
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
$19.99 Add to cart“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” –Bill Bryson
Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter M
- Author: Palin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1771645725
- Language: English
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE – A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Div… [more below]
- Author: Kurson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0812973690
- Language: English
