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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....
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Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
by George Kennan Publisher Comments In the 1860s, the Russo-American Telegraph Company set out to telegraphically connect the United States and Europe using lines running through the Bering Straits and Siberia. The failed expedition marked one of the first explorations of the vast...
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Voyages of Discovery
by Lynne Withey Publisher Comments Voyages of Discovery is the story of the last great age of European sea exploration, when state-supported expeditions driven by both scientific and political motives set out to map the remaining unknown parts of the globe. Focusing on the voyages of the...
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Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Women Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
by Sheila Nickerson Publisher Comments In 1871, Charles Francis Hall's Polaris expedition set out to be the first official American party to reach the North Pole. Five months later, the Polaris had become locked in ice and Hall was dead-likely murdered. The expedition members were set adrift...
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Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
by Lennard Bickel Publisher Comments A true story of the heroic group that was to lay supplies across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the Endurance expedition. Launched by Shackleton, and led by Captain Aenaes Mackintosh, the team accomplished most of their mission, but all...
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
by Samuel Bawlf Publisher Comments Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, geographer and maritime historian Bawlf masterfully reconstructs Francis Drake's historic round-the-world expedition, exploring the drama surrounding the voyage and offering intriguing insights into life at sea in the...
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Poles Apart
by Bess Balchen Publisher Comments "Poles Apart" introduces Bernt Balchen, who repaired the skis on Admiral Richard E. Byrd's plane, making Byrd's 1926 flight toward the North Pole possible....
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Women of the Four Winds
by Elizabeth Fagg Olds Publisher Comments Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane...
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Buccaneers and Pirates
by Frank Stockton Publisher Comments Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always intriguing, these true stories describe the exploits of such notorious maritime marauders as Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Captain Kidd, and other lesser known but equally cutthroat brigands. Stockton...
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Imperial Footprints: Henry Morton Stanley's African Journeys
by James L Newman Publisher Comments Reevaluates the extraordinary exploits of one of history??'s most controversial...
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River Road to China: The Search for the Sources of the Mekong, 1866-73
by Milton Osborne Publisher Comments In 1866, six Frenchmen set out on a dangerous mission to seek a trade route up the Mekong. During the two years that followed, they would journey through more than four thousand miles of unmapped territory, from the tropical heat of the swamps of Vietnam...
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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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The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
by Daniel Liebowitz Publisher Comments Traces the nineteenth-century, three-year African expedition of Henry Morton Stanley, a journey that was launched with the official intention of rescuing jihad victim lieutenant Emin Pasha of the southern Sudan, in an account that reveals Stanley's...
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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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Resolution Captain Cooks Second Voyage
by Peter Aughton Synopsis This is the story of Captain Cook's second voyage of exploration in the far southern waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It charts the adventures of James Cook and his crew aboard the Resolution as they landed on exotic islands and coasts...
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South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
by Ernest H Shackleton Publisher Comments Based upon Shackletons diaries and writings , South gives the reader an insight into the appalling condi tions that the author and his party endured when the Enduran ce lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea...
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Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life
by Peter Stark Publisher Comments Well into the nineteenth century, Arctic explorers believed that they needed only to smash their ships through a ring of ice encircling the top of the globe, and from there they could tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Acting on this belief...
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The Discoveries of the World from Their First Original Unto the Year of Our Lord 1555
by Antonio Galvano Publisher Comments 1862. Galvano was governor of the Moluccas in the East Indies. Hakluyt, a British geographer, corrected, quoted, and published a translation of this work from the Portuguese....
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The Mammoth Book of Polar Journeys: 42 Eye-Witness Accounts of Adventure and Tragedy in the Artic and Antartica (Mammoth Book of)
by Jon Lewis Publisher Comments Fifty first-hand accounts of intrepid travel through the wild polar wastelands form Sir John Franklin's starvation march through Alaska in 1821 to Vassilli Gorshkovsky's trip aboard a creaking Russian icebreaker....
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by John Wesley Powell Publisher Comments The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, recently ranked number four on Adventure magazine’s list of top 100 classics, is legendary pioneer John Wesley Powell’s first-person account of his crew’s unprecedented odyssey along...
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