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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams Publisher Comments What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and andldquo;discoveredandrdquo; Machu Picchu. While history has recast... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester Publisher Comments Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemuller world map of 1507. So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams Publisher Comments What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and andldquo;discoveredandrdquo; Machu Picchu. While history has recast... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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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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Searching for Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez: A Makeshift Expedition Along Baja's Desert Coast by Andromed Romano Lax Publisher Comments Written by the author of "Adventure Kayaking, " this book is a celebration and re-creation of Steinbeck's famous trip to some of the most biologically diverse waters in the world. Map.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin Publisher Comments Daniel Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, this book delves into the discoveries of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton Publisher Comments The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 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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Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson Publisher Comments In this extraordinarily well researched and insightful biography, Aronson explores the amazing accomplishments and dismal failures of one of the most flamboyant figures of the Elizabethan age. Illustrated with archival prints. Maps, end notes and... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trickster Travels the Search for Leo Africanus by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments A] fascinating tale of a man forced . . . to live between incompatible worlds. Highly recommended. --Library Journal Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco--became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn Mckay Brodie Publisher Comments Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!" So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 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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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America by Toby Lester Publisher Comments "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) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Faber Book of Exploration by Benedict Allen Publisher Comments An anthology of human exploration which showcases the writings of those who have dared to set off into the unknown, and who have returned to tell the tale. Covering a broad range of exploits and historical periods, it brings together botanists, Vikings... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin Publisher Comments An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead Publisher Comments Chapter 1 The Blue Nile‘ Egypt is an acquired country, the gift of the river.'--Herodotus. The Blue Nile pours very quietly and uneventfully out of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is no waterfall or cataract, no definite... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 White Nile by Alan Moorehead Publisher Comments Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller "The White Nile" -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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