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by Ranulph Fiennes  Publisher Comments The real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest is told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed "the world's greatest living explorer," Sir Ranulph Fiennes.... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marco Polo Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time — a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments This beautifully packaged volume captures, in the words of veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, his excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the "Endurance."... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim 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 $38.00 Your price $27.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 gripping... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kelly Tyler-Lewis Publisher Comments The harrowing tale of the Ross Sea party, the other side of Shackleton's Endurance expedition. In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Gurney Synopsis In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this as yet uncharted and unexploited region especially enticing. This volume provides and account of three... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Publisher Comments The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion, is a new and improved translation of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Thayer Publisher Comments Everyone told her it couldn't be done...especially by a woman. But in 1988, fifty-year-old Helen Thayer, accompanied only by her black husky Charlie, became the first woman ever to ski solo to the North Pole. After overcoming her first obstacle--the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eviatar Zerubavel Publisher Comments Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?<P... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Henderson Publisher Comments THIS BOOK is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every crime from rape to murder." They had... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell
Powells.com Staff Pick Morrell and Capparell do a wonderful job of articulating Shackleton's leadership successes in everyday terms that will resonate with decision-makers in all varieties of business. Lessons in team-building and performance management are evident throughout... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leonard F Guttridge Publisher Comments "On all levels, not least as a psychological tale of polar exploration, Icebound is a book well worth reading." (The New York Times Book Review) On July 8, 1879, thirty-three men set off from San Francisco on the small sailing ship Jeannette planning to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francis Spufford Publisher Comments Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, “A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination...” The title, a last quote from one... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kim Gillis Publisher Comments Highlights photographs which show the activities of life aboard an Arctic exploration vessel, and captures the life of the Inuit of northern Greenland a century ago.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $8.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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