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Columbus: And the Conquest of the Impossible by F Fernandez Armesto Synopsis This controversial biography of Christopher Columbus argues that he is best understood as a primitive celestial navigator, fuelled by a progressive religiosity yet strongly influenced by mysticism and millennarianism.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia: Volume 1 (Duckworth Discoverers) by Henry M Stanley Publisher Comments Sir Henry Stanley is best known for his expeditions and explorations in Africa. However as a journalist he spent much time in other continents before his famous search for Livingstone. In this gripping volume, he writes poignantly about his journeys to... (read more) List Price $37.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by Alasdair Macleod Synopsis The urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. "Explorers" tells the story of man's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of 50 of the most intrepid people ever known.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus by David Abulafia Publisher Comments The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca Across North America (Texas Archaeology & Ethnohistory) by Alex D Krieger Publisher Comments Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize La Florida in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America (John MacRae Books) by Paul Schneider Publisher Comments "Schneider's 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 story of an army... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life & Adventures of John Nicol Mariner by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments Publisher: W. Blackwood Publication date: 1822 Subjects: Seafaring life Convicts Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Hawaii... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin American Literature and Culture #9: Reading Columbus by Margarita Zamora Publisher Comments Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stanley (07 Edition) by Jeal Publisher Comments "A magnificent new life . . . [and] a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable and exhaustive, profiting from his access to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler Publisher Comments The first authorized biography of the antarctic explorer who gave us the greatest classic of polar literature In February 1912, Apsley Cherry-Garrard drove a team of dogs 150 miles to a desolate outpost on Antarctica’s rough ice shelf to meet... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments In this insightful history of world exploration, Fernandez-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that drew together the farthest reaches of the world. 16 pp. of color. 48 maps. 44 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Mammoth Book of Explorers by John Keay Publisher Comments During the golden age of exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the intrepid travelers emerged from the jungles, deserts, and ice caps of the world's remotest locations, they were greeted by an awestruck public as though they had... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventures by Fergus Fleming Synopsis Adventure literature at its best: the breathtaking story of England's heroic 19th-century expedition to the Arctic, the heart of Africa, and Antarctica, under the command of John Barrow.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Discoveries of Guiana by Walter Raleigh Publisher Comments Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discovery of Guiana is a masterpiece of early travel literature that brings together important themes of Renaissance exploration, the European encounter with the New World, and the culture and politics of early modern Europe. Part... (read more) List Price $16.90 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Modern Library Classics) by Marco Polo Publisher Comments Marco Polo the Venetian traveled throughout the Far East in the 13th-Century, discovering all manner of advanced wonders of art and technology unknown to Europeans, and serving as Kubla Khan's trusted advisor and ambassador. When he returned to Venice... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic by Charles Officer Publisher Comments Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and stamina. A Fabulous Kingdom: Tales of the Arctic charts these quests and the eventual race for... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Latin American Literature & Culture #0010: Castaways by A N Cabeza De Vaca Publisher Comments This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways (Naufragios), Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America 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 Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by Fergus Fleming Publisher Comments Forty-five gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the historyof exploration are divided between three "ages of exploration," each of whichis prefaced by a lively essay introducing key aspects of the age in question.560 pp.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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