Exploration - New World
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 Used: $18.95 Hardcover List Price $27.50 
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz  
Powells.com Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson...
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Used: $18.95 Hardcover List Price $27.00
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Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America
by Miles Harvey Publisher Comments In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a...
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Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.00
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Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Publisher Comments A classic tale of exploration and adventure in the New World. First time in Penguin Classics....
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Sale: $23.00 Hardcover List Price $25.95
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Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America
by David Boyle Publisher Comments The untold story of the rivalries and alliances between Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and John Cabot during the Age of Exploration.When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the long-established trade routes to the East became...
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The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast
by Patricia Galloway Publisher Comments From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume--anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary...
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Sale: $24.98 Hardcover List Price $36.95
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The Ships of Christopher Columbus (Anatomy of the Ship)
by Xavier Pastor Publisher Comments This popular ship-design series is praised for its superb drawings and full descriptions of each ship's design, construction, operational history, and much more....
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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
by David Abulafia Publisher Comments The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers’ experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the...
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Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (Zia Book)
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Publisher Comments Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remarkable book is his odyssey, first written in 1542 as an official report to the king of Spain under the title La Relacion....
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Adventuring with Boldness: The Triumph of the Explorers
by Bruce C Paton Publisher Comments "Adventuring with Boldness is split into two sections, the first telling the stories of the expeditions of Alexander Mackenzie, Zebulon Pike, Lewis and Clark, John Wesley Powell, and more. The second part tells how they dealt with the issues of food...
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
by Nancy Brown Publisher Comments Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after...
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Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
by Hans Koning Publisher Comments "The book is an idea that has finally found its time."<BR>"--Publisher's Weekly" "I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years."<BR>"--Kurt...
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John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609
by Helen C. Et Al Rountree Synopsis Captain John Smith's voyages throughout the new world did not end--or, for that matter, begin--with the trip on which he was captured and brought to the great chief Powhatan. Partly in an effort to map the region, Smith covered countless leagues of the...
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
by Samuel Elio Morison Publisher Comments Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 fold-outs....
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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane and Discovery
by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize...
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Why America?: 500 Years of a Name: The Life and Times of Amerigo Vespucci
by German Arciniegas Publisher Comments Despite the fact that the Americas were named after Florentine Amérigo Vespucci, he has been one of the least researched characters in American history. In this profile, Vespucci is revealed as a smart, trustworthy businessman and explorer, worthy...
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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery
by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments Columbus' fourth voyage is a saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery, yet his quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril....
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The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Publisher Comments The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion, is a new and improved translation of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States....
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The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Publisher Comments Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover and conquer the wilderness of North America, only four returned — after covering about 6,000 miles in the course of eight harrowing years. Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1528-1536 expedition...
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Bering: The Russian Discovery of America
by Orcutt Frost Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-315) and index....
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Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
by Peter C. Mancall Publisher Comments Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...
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