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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World's Most Daring Explorers by Kari Herbert Synopsis Polar explorers were the superstars of the “heroic age” of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In this engaging book, author Kari Herbert explores the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery by Lynne Cox Publisher Comments Roald Amundsen, “the last of the Vikings,” left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers ever. A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsens career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh (07 Edition) by Linda Colley Publisher Comments In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Exploration Hoaxes (Modern Library Exploration) by David Roberts Publisher Comments Did Peary reach the North Pole? Was Admiral Byrd the first to fly over it? Did Frederick Cook actually make the first ascent of Mt. McKinley? Spanning 450 years of history, Great Exploration Hoaxes tells the spellbinding stories of ten men who pursued... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Book Club Paperback
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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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Travels of Ibn Battuta (04 Edition) by Ibn Battuta Publisher Comments In 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, and elsewhere. "Essential reading... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific: As Told by Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1799 by James Cook Publisher Comments Cook's three great voyages into the uncharted Pacific, told in his own words. Travel classic recounts exploration of the eastern coastline of Australia, mapping of New Zealand, discovery of Hawaiian Islands, much more.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Discovery of Jeanne Baret (10 Edition) by Glynis Ridley Publisher Comments The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wanderings in Three Continents (Folios Archive Library) by Richard Burton Publisher Comments This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton in the aspect in which he was known best to the world - as a traveler and explorer. Spanning the period from 1853 to 1870, the most active years of Burton's life, the book includes... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - 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 Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World with DVD by Harry Rutstein Synopsis The Marco Polo Odyssey tracks the fantastic journey of an intrepid adventurer who spent ten years following the 13,000 mile overland route of Marco Polo from Venice to Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally crossing China to Beijing. It... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Voyages of Captain Cook by John Barrow Publisher Comments Told from Cook's own journals, this account of his three world voyages is as much a work of literature as one of pure history, and is a testament to eighteenth century exploration as well.... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Land of the Great Image by Maurice Collis Synopsis This book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manrique's career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma to the Church and to Portuguese trade.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany by Mark Jenkins Publisher Comments In centuries past, undertaking a journey meant a voyage into the unknown, traveling for months or years into unexplored areas on the map where cartographers could only speculate "There be dragons." And those fortunate adventurers who made it home again... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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