Expeditions & Discoveries
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Explorers: A New History
$22.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 132407387X
- Language: English
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
$19.99 Add to cart“As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness.” ― Sunday Times
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- Author: Bound, Mensun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063297418
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$32.99 Add to cartEqual parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest th
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0063371405
- Language: English
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Everest 24: New Views on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition
$39.95 Read moreCommemorating the 100th anniversary of an enduring Everest mystery, this book sheds new light on the ill-fated 1924 Mount Everest expedition
Features unseen and rarely seen expedition images and cultu- Author: Tenzing, Norbu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1588347826
- Language: English
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L.A. Birdmen: West Coast Aviators and the First Airshow in America
$29.95 Read moreAlthough most credit Wilbur and Orville Wright with America’s first powered flight, two months before the brothers lifted off the sands of Kitty Hawk, a French immigrant named August Greth flew the Ca
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084399
- Language: English
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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible
$15.99 Add to cartIn 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world’s oldest Bible scroll in a desert cave east of the Dead Sea. With his phenomenal find, Shapira swiftl… [more below]
- Author: Tigay, Chanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0062206427
- Language: English
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Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Untethered Flight in Space
$24.95 Read moreThe Man You Never Knew You Knew
It’s one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse
- Author: McCandless III, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1626348650
- Language: English
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
$22.99 Add to cartIn an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422601
- Language: English
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Antarctica: A Biography
$40.99 Add to cartSince the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world’s imagination. David Day’s brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating d… [more below]
- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 642
- Publish Date: June 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0199861455
- Language: English
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The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590
$16.00 Add to cartSixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the Engli… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, David Beers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0865261954
- Language: English
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Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
$29.95 Read more“Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world’s highest peaks.”– Jon Krakauer… [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Bernadette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1680515780
- Language: English
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Lewis & Clark for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartThe Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details … [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Meadows, Sammye J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 26 2003
- ISBN10: 076452545X
- Language: English
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Morning of Fire: America’s Epic First Journey Into the Pacific
$24.99 Add to cartMorning of Fire by Scott Ridley is the thrilling story of 18th century American explorer and expeditioner John Kedrick as he journeyed for land and trade in the Pacific. Set against the backdrop of on
- Author: Ridley, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0061700193
- Language: English
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
$18.99 Add to cartLearn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and “a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history’s most famous explorers…[with] infusio… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1451677588
- Language: English
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The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier
$18.00 Add to cartA lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts… [more below]
- Author: Flannery, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137199
- Language: English
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
$21.95 Add to cartThe legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American e… [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Leroy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803272103
- Language: English
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The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World
$16.99 Add to cartNever tell a woman where she doesn’t belong.
In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that “women are not
- Author: Zanglein, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1728239583
- Language: English
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Through the Brazilian Wilderness – An Epic Adventure of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition: Organization and Members of the Expedition, Cooper
$13.10 Add to cartThis book is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland. In 1914 Theodore Roosevelt with his son, Kermit and Colonel Rondon traveled to South America on a quest to … [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 16 2019
- ISBN10: 8027334535
- Language: English
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The Ship, the Saint, and the Sailor: The Long Search for the Legendary Kad’yak
$17.99 Add to cartThe true story about a shipwreck discovery, exciting explorations, broken alliances, and returning a lost piece of Alaskan history.
Since its sinking in 1860 while transporting a valuable cargo of ic- Author: Stevens, Bradley G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1513261371
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“Particularly valuable for Ronda’s inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper pe
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803289901
- Language: English
