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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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Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made
by Robert Poole Publisher Comments For more than one hundred years, the National Geographic Society has brought "the world and all that is in it" to millions worldwide. Through its unparallel led research, exploration, publications, and photography, the organization and its magazine have,...
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High Endeavours: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Miles & Beryl Smeeton
by Miles Clark Publisher Comments Miles Clarke's moving and exhilarating biography establishes Miles and Beryl Smeeton as the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century. It is both a love story and an adventure story beyond compare....
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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
by Klaus Brinkbaumer Publisher Comments Of all the great seafaring vessels of the Age of Discovery, not one has been recovered or even--given the lack of detailed contemporary descriptions--accurately represented. Then, in the mid-1990s, a sunken ship was found in a small, shallow gulf off the...
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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole
by Fergus Fleming Publisher Comments The author of "Barrow's Boys" presents the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole....
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Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
by Nicholas Thomas Publisher Comments "Deep in its research, broad in its sympathies, imaginative in its reconstruction of events and thought processes and graceful in its prose style, Cook presents a winning combination of qualities."-- The New York Times Book Review Commonly regarded...
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Historical Atlas of Expeditions
by Karen Farrington Synopsis When Sir Edmund Hillary made his famous comment about climbing Mount Everest 'because it was there', he summed up the raison d'etre behind every explorer's drive to leave safe boundaries and tackle the unknown. The thrill and honor of being the first to...
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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship
by Klaus Brinkbaumer Publisher Comments Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before it was discovered in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Klaus Brinkba umer and Clemens Ho ges, journalists with...
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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of de Long and the Jeannette
by John Muir Publisher Comments By 1880, John Muir had spent two decades wandering in the wilderness and was turning toward settled family life, but a proposed voyage on the steamer Corwin to search for a shipwrecked whaling vessel proved irresistible for this great adventurer. The...
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Selkirks Island the Original Robinson CR
by Diana Souhami Publisher Comments The true story of the man who was the inspiration behind Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", a Scottish buccaneer named Alexander Selkirk, who survived for years marooned on a remote island off the Chilean coast. "Masterly...Souhami's excellent book should...
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Footsteps on the Ice: The Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Paine, Second Byrd Expedition
by M L Paine Synopsis In 1933 Antarctica was essentially unexplored. Admiral Richard Byrd launched his Second Expedition to chart the southernmost continent, primarily relying on the muscle power of dog teams and their drivers who skied or ran beside the loaded sledges as...
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Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century
by David Roberts Publisher Comments Roberts and the editors of "Outside" have gathered the most enduring adventure literature of the century into one heart-stopping volume. By turns charming and tragic, whimsical and nerve-racking, this extraordinary collection gets to the heart of why...
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
by Worsley And Shackleton Publisher Comments First published in 1931, this is the legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of the HMS "Endurance." 20 illustrations....
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Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen 
Publisher Comments Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are...
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The Voyage of the Verrazzano
by Henry C Murphy Publisher Comments I. That no evidence of the Verrazzano discovery ever existed in France, is not only necessarily presumed from the circumstance that none has ever been produced, but is inferentially established by the fact that all the French writers and historians, who...
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Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
by John Silverwood Synopsis To escape the humdrum of life in Southern California, a man, his wife, and four young children decide to set sail across the high seas and embark on the adventure of a lifetime--one that will change them forever. 16-page photo insert....
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Prize of All the Oceans
by Glyn Williams Synopsis This selection tells the dramatic true story of British Commodore George Anson's voyage around the world in the 18th century, and how he seized the legendary Spanish treasure galleon....
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Trickster Travels in Search of Leo Afric
by Natalie Zemon Davis Publisher Comments Subtitled, "A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds". Captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptised, and allowed a European life of scholarship, Leo Africanus is a celebrated but hitherto elusive...
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