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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology by Andrew Hadfield Publisher Comments Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is an accessible and unique anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Publisher Comments A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley Publisher Comments Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography by David Hempleman-adams Publisher Comments A treasure trove of photographs--some never before reproduced in book form--from the two greatest Antarctic expeditions. Among the greatest achievements in the history of photography, those of the early polar explorers surely stand out, for the beauty of... (read more) Your price: $47.50 New - Hardcover
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A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz 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) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester Publisher Comments Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemuller world map of 1507. So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments In 1519, Magellan, five ships, and more than two hundred men set sail from Spain to find a water route to the Spice Islands. Despite suffering starvation, disease, torture, and death, they discovered the passageway known today as the Strait of Magellan... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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University of Alaska Press - Lives of Great Explorers #02: Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-Francois de La Perouse by John Dunmore Publisher Comments French explorer and naval officer Jean-François de la Pérouse (1741–88) was, after James Cook, the greatest explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century. In 1785, La Pérouse was commissioned by Louis XVI to head an expedition... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $27.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration by David Roberts Publisher Comments This collection of adventure writing ranges from Robert Falcon Scott's final journal entry to Jon Krakauer's reckless solo climb of the Devil's Thumb to Tom Wolfe's brilliant portrayal of Chuck Yeager shattering the sound barrier in "The Right Stuff". A... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.60 Used - Hardcover
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