Exploration - Used Books
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by Miles H Davidson  Publisher Comments The author traces the events of Columbus's life in chronological order, drawing on manuscripts, diaries, private correspondence, court and naval records, and shipping logs to provide a historically credible portrait. He uses sources never before... (read more)  List Price $55.00 Your price $11.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Peter Aughton Synopsis This is the story of Captain Cook's second voyage of exploration in the far southern waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It charts the adventures of James Cook and his crew aboard the Resolution as they landed on exotic islands and coasts... (read more) Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Balzar Publisher Comments The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is one of the most challenging sporting events in the world. Every February, a handful of hardy souls spends over two weeks racing sleds pulled by fourteen dogs over 1,023 miles of frozen rivers, icy mountain... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrea De Porti Publisher Comments A superbly illustrated reference of great explorers and their expeditions since 1845. One the most exciting periods of exploration coincided with the invention of photography. As a result, the most important expeditions over the last 160 years were... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Glyndwr Williams Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-453) and index.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerri Nielsen Publisher Comments "Ice Bound" is the inspiring true story of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician with breast cancer stranded at a South Pole research station, whose amazing rescue made headlines around the globe. Set in a remote and desolate yet strikingly beautiful... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $4.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barry Lopez 
Powells.com Staff Pick "Barry Lopez won the 1986 National Book Award for Arctic Dreams. A more accurate test, though, for the true quality of a book is how well it wears over time. And though it may yet be too soon to conclude, Arctic Dreams appears to have taken its place as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miles Harvey Publisher Comments In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by As Baynton Williams Publisher Comments A collection of 120 faithfully reproduced antique maps in a sumptuous supersize format. The maps chart five centuries of exploration tracing the discovery of our world as science, legend, politics and art are blended together in the art of cartography... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Martin Dugard Publisher Comments The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $3.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments The arrival of Christopher Columbus on American shores, albeit controversial, remains one of the most consequential events in world history. In "Columbus in the Americas", acclaimed and bestselling author William Least Heat Moon turns his attention to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Beau Maurice Publisher Comments At 16, Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where he immersed himself in the Inuit people's culture and way of life. Through deadly epidemics and the struggle to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvah Simon
Publisher Comments In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest H Shackleton Publisher Comments Based upon Shackletons diaries and writings , South gives the reader an insight into the appalling condi tions that the author and his party endured when the Enduran ce lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Publisher Comments Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the South Pole, recounts the unforgettable journey across forbidding, inhospitable terrain. He was also a member of the search party that ultimately... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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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