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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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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 women to... (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 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 Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name... (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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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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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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The North Pole: A Narrative History
The North Pole: A Narrative History
by Anthony Brandt
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"A few toes aren't much to give to achieve the Pole," observed Robert Peary, but as Anthony Brandt's gripping new anthology shows, much more was at risk for the men who tested the limits of endurance to reach the top of the world. Drawing on the... (read more)

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Ring of Ice True Tales of Exploration
Ring of Ice True Tales of Exploration
by Peter Stark
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Well into the nineteenth century Arctic explorers believed that they needed only to smash their ships through a ring of ice circling the top of the globe and from there they could tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Acting on this belief... (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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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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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
by Klaus Brinkbaumer
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“Not since Morrisons classic book on Columbus has a volume so brilliantly captured the spirit of the man long credited with discovering the New World, yet been the subject of so much mythology and mystery.”—Filipe Castro, Nautical... (read more)

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Xanadu Marco Polo & Europes Discovery of the East
Xanadu Marco Polo & Europes Discovery of the East
by John Man
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The respected historian and travel writer, John Man, tells the remarkable story of the world's most famous traveller -- Marco Polo -- and the moment when East met West for the first time. Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia,... (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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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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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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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson - A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic
Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson - A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic
by Peter Mancall
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The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates... (read more)

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