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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
by Mark Adams
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Columbus in the Americas
by William Least Heat-Moon
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A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and... (read more)

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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
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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)

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The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake: Being His Next Voyage to That to Nombre de Dios (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration)
by Francis Drake
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Penguin Classics #217: The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives..
by Christopher Columbus
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Oxford Atlas of Exploration
by Oxford
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Great Exploration Hoaxes (Modern Library Exploration)
by David Roberts
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Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
by Mike Horn
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The Book of Exploration
by Ray Howgego
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Secrets of the Ice: Antarctica's Clues to Climate, the Universe, and the Limits of Life
by Veronika Meduna
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Columbus: The Four Voyages
by Laurence Bergreen
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Water, Ice, and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
by Bill Green
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Dead Reckoning: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Golden Age of Exploration,1800-1900 (Outside Books)
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Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration
by David Roberts
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Across the Top of the World: To the North Pole by Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker (Delta Expedition)
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Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in Age of Columbus (08 Edition)
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My Attainment of the Pole
by Frederick A Cook
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Great British Journeys
by Nicholas Crane
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