The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration
by Simon Nasht




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This riveting biography recounts the life of the world's first truly modern explorer, a life of unrelenting adventure and the high drama of polar exploration. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history: no one saw with his own eyes more... (read more)

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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
by Klaus Brinkbaumer


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Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before it was discovered in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Klaus Brinkba umer and Clemens Ho ges, journalists with... (read more)

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Voyage Discovery V2
by Robert Falcon Scott


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This publication reproduces in facsimile the rare, lavishly illustrated deluxe edition. Robert F. Scott is best known for his failed, fatal efforts to be the first to reach the South Pole, but his initial Antarctic expedition aboard the Discovery from... (read more)

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Some Like It Cold
by Neville Shulman


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From the icy plains of the Arctic to the glacial wilderness of the Antarctic, Neville Shulman embarked on two epic journeys to achieve his dream of reaching both the North and South Poles. Throughout his adventures, Shulman recounts the stories of the... (read more)

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A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
by Preston And Scott


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On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier found what they sought--the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. 3 maps. Two 8-page inserts.... (read more)

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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
by Klaus Brinkbaumer


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Of all the great seafaring vessels of the Age of Discovery, not one has been recovered or even--given the lack of detailed contemporary descriptions--accurately represented. Then, in the mid-1990s, a sunken ship was found in a small, shallow gulf off the... (read more)

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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


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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)

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Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Women Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
by Sheila Nickerson


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In 1871, Charles Francis Hall's Polaris expedition set out to be the first official American party to reach the North Pole. Five months later, the Polaris had become locked in ice and Hall was dead-likely murdered. The expedition members were set adrift... (read more)

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Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
by Ernest Shackleton


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Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition and astonishing march to reach the South Pole. With the same drama and adventure of Shackleton's later memoir, South, Heart of the Antarctic chronicles the first polar expedition he led... (read more)

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The Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
by Peter Aughton


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Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east coast of Australia, the whole of New Zealand and many islands in the Pacific... (read more)

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The Drake Manuscript
by Francis Drake


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By the end of the sixteenth century, Sir Francis Drake had made at least four and perhaps as many as eight voyages to the West Indies. He was known to have painted much of what he encountered, although none of his own work survives. He was also known to... (read more)

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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole
by Fergus Fleming


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The author of "Barrow's Boys" presents the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole.... (read more)

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