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A Voyage Long and Strange Signed
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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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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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen
Powells.com Staff Pick Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves...
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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...
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations...
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David...
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Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology
by Peter C Mancall Publisher Comments The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ushered in a new era of discovery as explorers traversed the globe, returning home with vivid tales of distant lands and exotic peoples. Aided by the invention of the printing press in Europe, travelers were able to...
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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...
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Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
by Sara Wheeler Publisher Comments Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of...
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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
by Rolf Potts Publisher Comments Veteran shoestring traveler Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent, curious spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel, once thought to be the sole province of students, counterculture dropouts, and the idle rich....
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Memoirs of a Buccaneer Memoirs of a Buccaneer: Dampier's New Voyage Round the World, 1697 Dampier's New Voyage Round the World, 1697 (Dover Value Editions)
by William Dampier Publisher Comments Mapmaker and navigator Dampier guided important voyages of exploration, and his journals as a buccaneer constitute a historical treasure. This fascinating travel and adventure book recounts pirate life while offering a firsthand look at the 17th-century...
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through...
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Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (02 Edition)
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations...
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Kon Tiki ((Rev)84 Edition)
by Thor Heyerdahl Publisher Comments The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before....
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Explorers: The Most Exciting Voyages of Discovery -- From the African Expeditions to the Lunar Landing
by Andrea De Porti Publisher Comments A superbly illustrated reference of great explorers and their expeditions since 1845. One the most exciting periods of exploration coincided with the invention of photography. As a result, the most important expeditions over the last 160 years were...
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
by Gretel Ehrlich
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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest
by Ranulph Fiennes Publisher Comments The real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest is told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed "the world's greatest living explorer," Sir Ranulph Fiennes....
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Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
by Glyndwr Williams Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-453) and index....
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic
by Edward Beau Maurice Publisher Comments At 16, Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where he immersed himself in the Inuit people's culture and way of life. Through deadly epidemics and the struggle to...
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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...
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