Expeditions & Discoveries
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Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America
$24.95 Add to cartOne hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark’s “Voyage of Discovery” (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate jo… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080326626X
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Speech
$18.99 Add to cartThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
“A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theo- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0316404632
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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A Grail Quest
$27.99 Add to cartGrail Quests often begin with what seems like normal travel adventures, but then suddenly turn into divine synchronistic events that makes one feel as though they’re being guided by the Universe. I wa
- Author: Ball, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888964477
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World: With Scott in Antarctica 1910-1913
$18.95 Add to cartThe Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece.–The New York Review of Books
When people ask me, ‘What is your favorite travel book?’ I near… [more below]- Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0486477320
- Language: English
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The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest
$10.95 Add to cartOf the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover North America, only four returned. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1528-1536 expedition crackles with excitement, relating the survivors’ journey a… [more below]
- Author: Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0486431800
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
$25.00 Read moreA Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America’s history vividly to life.
What happened in North America betwe- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428324
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Thailand: Monarchy, War and Resilience: The Fascinating Story of the Gilded Kingdom at the Heart of Asia
$16.99 Add to cartThailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there’s much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize.
A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at th- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Ruth, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0804851212
- Language: English
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Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
$19.95 Add to cartTupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship’s translator. Lauded by Europeans as an “extraordinary genius,” Tupaia was a star navigator
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0995130906
- Language: English
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The Conquistadors
$12.99 Add to cartWith startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the wor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0195392299
- Language: English
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Alaska Homesteader’s Handbook: Independent Living on the Last Frontier
$18.95 Add to cartA remarkable compilation of practical information for living in one of the most impractical and inhospitable landscapes in the United States. More than forty pioneer types ranging from their mid-ninet… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0882408119
- Language: English
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99 Add to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- Language: English
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South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
$35.00 Add to cartExperience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0760364826
- Language: English
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s
- Author: Nicandri, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224152
- Language: English
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The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
$19.00 Add to cartThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling advent… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476753873
- Language: English
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Sacajawea
$21.95 Add to cartIn the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 1806.
- Author: Howard, Harold P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0806115785
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia’s Largest Nation
$16.95 Add to cartSultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World’s Largest Archipelago
Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Hannigan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0804844763
- Language: English
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
$16.99 Add to cartOne of Library Journal‘s 10 Best Books of 2015
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0062315420
- Language: English
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Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
$23.95 Add to cartDavid J. Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed… [more below]
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235119
- Language: English
