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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures) by David Grann Staff Pick Grann's riveting book, The Lost City of Z, delves into the intrepid life and mysterious disappearance of legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett. Armchair travelers will be whisked away to the Amazon on a wild ride with a surprising finish.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Great Exploration Hoaxes (Modern Library Exploration) by David Roberts Publisher Comments Did Peary reach the North Pole? Was Admiral Byrd the first to fly over it? Did Frederick Cook actually make the first ascent of Mt. McKinley? Spanning 450 years of history, Great Exploration Hoaxes tells the spellbinding stories of ten men who pursued... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester Publisher Comments Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemuller world map of 1507. So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Penguin Classics #217: The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. by Christopher Columbus Synopsis To present a consecutive narrative of Columbus' voyages to the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba, Trinidad, and the mainland of America, this book combines reports and letters written by Columbus with large passages from the biography prepared by his son and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wanderings in Three Continents (Folios Archive Library) by Richard Burton Publisher Comments This posthumous volume of essays, first published in 1901, reveals Burton in the aspect in which he was known best to the world - as a traveler and explorer. Spanning the period from 1853 to 1870, the most active years of Burton's life, the book includes... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Atlas of Exploration by Oxford Publisher Comments The history of exploration is the history of human fascination with the world. Almost from the beginning of humanity, people have felt impelled to venture into unknown regions, displaying incredible endurance and bravery in the face of harsh environments... (read more) Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle by Mike Horn Publisher Comments In August 2002, Mike Horn set out on a mission that bordered on the impossible: to travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the Arctic Circle - alone, against all prevailing winds and currents, and without motorized transportation. This is the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Book Club Paperback
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The Book of Exploration by Ray Howgego Publisher Comments A chronological tour of the history of exploration in the style of The Map Book, by the world's leading expert. Before the turn of the 19th century, ventures into uncharted lands required material or spiritual reward to justify the perils of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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Columbus: The Four Voyages by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Water, Ice, and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes by Bill Green Publisher Comments "Nature writing of a very high order . . . a joyride for those who enjoy deep explorations of logic, human frailty and the laws of nature."-San Francisco Chronicle "[Bill Green's] prose rings with the elemental clarity of the ice he knows so well."-PEN... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fedor Petrovich Litke by A I Alekseev Publisher Comments Litke was a remarkable Russian scientist, navigator, statesman, and scholar who made significant contributions to world science. His life was filled with tireless scientific activity, including numerous ocean travels. He was known especially for his... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration by David Roberts Publisher Comments This collection of adventure writing ranges from Robert Falcon Scott's final journal entry to Jon Krakauer's reckless solo climb of the Devil's Thumb to Tom Wolfe's brilliant portrayal of Chuck Yeager shattering the sound barrier in "The Right Stuff". A... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America by Paul Schneider Publisher Comments “Schneiders thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget.” —The New York Times Book Review A gripping survival epic, Brutal Journey tells the... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Across the Top of the World: To the North Pole by Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker (Delta Expedition) by David E Fisher Publisher Comments A chronicle of the history of polar exploration describes the 1991 expedition of a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker across the polar ice cap and discusses previous expeditions to the North Pole and the explorers who took part.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A Cook Publisher Comments The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865–1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels of Ibn Battuta (04 Edition) by Ibn Battuta Publisher Comments In 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, and elsewhere. "Essential reading... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Scotts Last Journey :Scott by Peter King Synopsis This entirely new edition of explorer Robert F. Scott's journal is a first-hand account of his final, ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1910, with more than 150 never-before-seen photographs.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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