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Endurance 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) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Marco Polo by Jonathan Clements Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The North Pole: A Narrative History by Anthony Brandt Publisher Comments "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) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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National Geographic Society Exploration Experience: The Heroic Exploits of the World's Greatest Explorers by Beau Riffenburgh Publisher Comments Filled with names that made and changed the course of history, National Geographic Society Exploration Experience takes readers on a thrilling voyage of discoveryin a fun and dynamic format thats unique in todays reference market. From the travels of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship by Klaus Brinkbaumer Publisher Comments “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) List Price $20.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Search for the North West Passage by Ann Savours Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Ring of Ice True Tales of Exploration by Peter Stark Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Voyage To Desolation Island by Jean Paul Kauffman Synopsis Kauffmann follows in the footsteps of the 18th century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago he discovered in the Indian Ocean. When he made his discovery, Kerguelen was convinced he had found Hell.... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by Alasdair Macleod Synopsis The urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. "Explorers" tells the story of man's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of 50 of the most intrepid people ever known.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places by John Keay Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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University of Alaska Press - Lives of Great Explorers #01: Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis De Bougainville by John Dunmore Publisher Comments 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) List Price $45.00 Your price: $31.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo by Ambrosio Bembo Publisher Comments In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Resolution Captain Cooks Second Voyage 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: $10.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson - A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic by Peter Mancall Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Xanadu Marco Polo & Europes Discovery of the East by John Man Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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