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Serpent in Paradise
by Dea Birkett  Publisher Comments Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders — descendants of the Bounty mutineers — Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two...
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The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration
by Sarah Moss Publisher Comments This thought-provoking examination of the most influential and popular accounts of polar exploration--from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to expeditions led by such famous explorers as Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen...
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The Shiptwins and the Changing Coin
by Simon Baker Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index....
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The American Discovery of Europe
by Jack D Forbes Publisher Comments The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and...
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Ernest Shackleton (A&E Biographies)
by George Plimpton Synopsis Writer and media personality George Plimpton not only tells Shackleton's story, but recounts his own recent adventure following Shackleton's footsteps through the bleak, beautiful seas, and islands at the bottom of the world....
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North :adventures in the frozen wild
by Nicolas Vanier Book News Annotation The author, who was inspired by the novels of Jack London, answered his own call of the wild and shares a wealth of information and lore garnered over two decades of travel. Through beautiful color photographs (a large proportion of which are full...
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The Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World's Deadliest River
by Martin Strel Publisher Comments Thirty-two hundred miles, piranha, crocodiles, anaconda, river sharks, blistering and relentless sun,dangerous currents, river pirates and drug runners, and the insidious candirú. Martin Strel swam through it all. Why? To call attention to the...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage Volume 2
by Richard Burton Publisher Comments Volume 2 of classic work. Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs...
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Sacred Landscape : Travel Through Ancient Peru (07 Edition)
by Hugh Thompson Publisher Comments The follow-up to "The White Rock," this book provides unforgettable accounts of South Americas most strange--but enduring--Incan culture. Thomson takes readers from the great Moche pyramids to ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in...
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Lost Treasures of American History
by W C Jameson Publisher Comments A professional treasure hunter recounts the search and discovery tales of lost mines and buried treasure throughout the nation's history, in a volume that includes the stories of the Sir Francis Drake Treasure, the Nez Pierce Gold, and Lafayette's Sunken...
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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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Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy
by David Crane Publisher Comments With full access to all family papers and to the voluminous diaries and records of key participants in the Antarctic expeditions, this richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott is an absolutely convincing portrait of a complicated hero....
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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
by Bill Gifford Publisher Comments For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that...
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Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839
by Alan Gurney Publisher Comments In search of scientific knowledge, natural prestige, and profit, many courageous explorers captured the hearts and attention of their countrymen when they set out to discover what lay below the Convergence, the sea frontier marking the boundary between...
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National Geographic Expeditions Atlas
by National Geographic Publisher Comments Founded more than 112 years ago "for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," the National Geographic Society has chronicled the exploits of some of the most famous explorers of the 20th century, and often helped fund those efforts. Roald...
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In Search of Robinson Crusoe
by Tim Serverin Publisher Comments Insightful travel writing, riveting narrative history, and clever scholarly discoveries make this a remarkably rich and varied book. Tim Severin has once again demonstrated a superb ability to bring together literature and adventure in an engrossing...
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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 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...
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Sources of the River : Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America ((Rev)07 Edition)
by Jack Nisbet Publisher Comments From 1784 to 1812, fur trader, surveyor, and mapmaker David Thompson explored western North America. His field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana,...
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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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