by Tony Horwitz  
Powells.com Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your Price $19.25 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies 
by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Nicholas Thomas Publisher Comments "Deep in its research, broad in its sympathies, imaginative in its reconstruction of events and thought processes and graceful in its prose style, Cook presents a winning combination of qualities."-- The New York Times Book Review Commonly regarded... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Alfred Lansing
From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John Bockstace Synopsis The Arctic is a land of elemental contrasts, a place of both sublime beauty and unforgiving harshness. From the heat and endless light of summer to the punishing cold and deep blue nights of winter, its great organic oneness has been admired and... (read more) Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Samuel Bawlf Publisher Comments When Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unansweredhis journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to divulge where they had been. Drawing on newly uncovered... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bill Gifford Publisher Comments For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Ranulph Fiennes Synopsis The real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest is told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed "the world's greatest living explorer," Sir Ranulph Fiennes.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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by Peter Aughton Synopsis This is the story of Captain Cook's second voyage of exploration in the far southern waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It charts the adventures of James Cook and his crew aboard the Resolution as they landed on exotic islands and coasts... (read more) Your Price $12.97 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Paul Schneider Publisher Comments “Schneider’s thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget.” —The New York Times Book Review A gripping survival epic, Brutal Journey... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Laurence Bergreen
Powells.com Staff Pick Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments "A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book Review Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new... (read more) Your Price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John Ledyard Publisher Comments The Last Voyage Of Captain Cook Meet John Ledyard, perhaps the greatest little-known explorer in American history. Ledyard (1751-1789) sailed with Capt. James Cook, formed a fur trading company with John Paul Jones, and dreamed, with Thomas Jerfferson... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jerri Nielsen
Publisher Comments Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Read an original essay by Simon Winchester and save 30% on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.
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