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Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
by Joyce E Chaplin
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andlt;Bandgt;In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and... (read more)

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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
by Toby Lester
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"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemand#252;ller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name... (read more)

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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places
The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places
by John Keay
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A timely reissue of this classic collection, formerly titled The Mammoth Book of Explorers, contains over 40 fascinating first-hand accounts of exploration including the first crossing of North America, exploration of the Congo, and adventures in Machu... (read more)

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Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder (Brassey's Military Profiles)
Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder (Brassey's Military Profiles)
by Wade G Dudley
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Chronicles the dramatic life of one of England's earliest naval heroes and the origins of British naval... (read more)

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The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama
by Nigel Cliff
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In 1498 a young captain named Vasco da Gama sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies and, with it, access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage ever... (read more)

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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
by Tony Horwitz
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W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn't have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the... (read more)

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Nansen the Explorer As Hero
Nansen the Explorer As Hero
by Roland Huntford
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Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century—Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South, and Peary in the North—looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen, the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the... (read more)

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The Travels of Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo
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Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Working from the traditional lyrical Marsden translation, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yule's magisterial two... (read more)

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National Geographic Society Exploration Experience: The Heroic Exploits of the World's Greatest Explorers
National Geographic Society Exploration Experience: The Heroic Exploits of the World's Greatest Explorers
by Beau Riffenburgh
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Filled with names that made and changed the course of history, National Geographic Society Exploration Experience takes readers on a thrilling voyage of discovery—in a fun and dynamic format thats unique in todays reference market. From the... (read more)

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The Search for the North West Passage
The Search for the North West Passage
by Ann Savours
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The search for the North West Passage to the Far East was the main driving force behind British arctic exploration from the 16th to the mid-19th century. It included the famous and ill-fated John Franklin expedition--the disappearance of which and... (read more)

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Marco Polo
Marco Polo
by Jonathan Clements
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Marco Polo (1254-1324) was born in either Venice or Korcula in what is now Croatia. The son of a merchant family, he left Europe on a trading mission with his father and uncle. The man who arrived back in Italy a generation later in 1295 was... (read more)

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen
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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)

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Marco Polo's Silk Road: The Art of the Journey: An Italian at the Court of Kublai Khan
Marco Polo's Silk Road: The Art of the Journey: An Italian at the Court of Kublai Khan
by Marco Polo
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In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated an account of his amazing adventures in China. That book, The Travels of Marco Polo, was an instant success. Though scholars once derided Polo's tale, today's historians accept it as accurate... (read more)

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Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University #88: The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle
Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University #88: The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle
by Robert Weddle
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Robert Cavelier de La Salle: daring explorer, empire builder, shaper of history—and shameless schemer who abused his followers and deceived his king. In The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle, acclaimed historian Robert S. Weddle reveals how... (read more)

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University of Alaska Press - Lives of Great Explorers #01: Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis De Bougainville
University of Alaska Press - Lives of Great Explorers #01: Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis De Bougainville
by John Dunmore
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Witty, charming, and fiercely intelligent, Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) managed, in the course of a long life, to play a part in nearly every facet of eighteenth-century life and culture. Storms and Dreams is a lively, authoritative... (read more)

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Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
by Andrea Di Robilant
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From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause cél&egrave... (read more)

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The Pepper Wreck: A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology)
The Pepper Wreck: A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology)
by Filipe Castro
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In 1606, a Portuguese ship, Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, put into Lisbon laden with peppercorns, porcelain, and other products from Cochin. A large vessel for the time, the merchantman displaced twelve hundred tons and carried three to four... (read more)

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Stanley the Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer
Stanley the Impossible Life of Africas Greatest Explorer
by Tim Jeal
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A magnificent new life . . . and] a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable and exhaustive, profiting from his access to an immense... (read more)

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