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by Alexander And Shackleton  Publisher Comments January 15th. A rather breezy day. Breakfast of tinned rabbit waiting for me in my bowl. Went on deck for my Watch, stationing myself under stern rail and leaning over so as to observe the bubbles in our wake. Was joined at rail by some of my shipmates... (read more)  List Price $11.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments This annotated edition of Shackleton's legendary, ill-fated Antarctic expedition features highly revealing side notes to the explorer's vivid narrative as well as dramatic archival photographs.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Gurney Synopsis This is the story of the early British, American and Russian expeditions to Antarctica, from the astronomer Halley's voyage in the Paramore in 1699 to the sealer John balleny's 1839 voyage in Eliza Scott, all in search of land, fur or elephant seals and... (read more) Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by National Geographic Publisher Comments Founded more than 112 years ago "for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," the National Geographic Society has chronicled the exploits of some of the most famous explorers of the 20th century, and often helped fund those efforts. Roald... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $10.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexan Von Humboldt Publisher Comments A great and innovative thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Stark Publisher Comments Well into the nineteenth century Arctic explorers believed that they needed only to smash their ships through a ring of ice circling the top of the globe and from there they could tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Acting on this belief... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $2.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William La Mckinlay Synopsis Written as a tribute to human courage this book traces the ill-fated expedition of the "Karluk" which set sail to the Arctic in June 1913. The Canadian explorer and captain led 25 crew members - seamen and scientists - on a journey from which 11 of them... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sanjay Subrahmanyam Publisher Comments 'Vasco da Gama (?1469 — 1524) is well known as one of a generation of discoverers, along with Magellan, Cabral, and Columbus. Yet little is known about his life, or about the context within which he ‘discovered’the all-sea route to... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $14.95 (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 explorer to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lonnie Dupre Synopsis This text, filled with photographs, details the author's 15-month adventure kayaking and dog-sledging across the unexplored wilderness of Greenland. Lonnie Dupre shares his experiences, and those of his companion, as they trekked through sub-zero... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roff Smith Publisher Comments The author of "Cold Beer and Crocodiles" now takes readers on a fascinating trek across the icy plains of the coldest and most remote edge of the world.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Beau Maurice Publisher Comments At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson"s Bay Company and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no telephone or radio and only one ship arrived each year. But the Inuit people... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Gifford Publisher Comments For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest H Shackleton Publisher Comments "Literally the epic of the ice, ("South") is the narration, in rich detail . . . of Shackleton's final Antarctic journey, 1914-1917".--"Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger". 70 photos & line drawings.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Samuel Elio Morison Publisher Comments Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 fold-outs.... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maurice Collis Synopsis This book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manrique's career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma to the Church and to Portuguese trade.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $2.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Roberts Publisher Comments When David Roberts came across a reference to four Russian sailors who had survived for six years on a barren Arctic island, he was incredulous. An expert on the literature of adventure, Roberts had never heard the story and doubted its veracity. His... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Preston And Scott Publisher Comments On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier found what they sought--the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. 3 maps. Two 8-page inserts.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott C Davis Publisher Comments Lost Arrow and Other True Stories contains eleven nonfiction tales based on the author's life: He is a rock climber, foreign traveler, and carpenter. Also, he spent 14 years tracing the obscure roots of a small African-American community where he lived... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rob Hanbury Tenison Publisher Comments Complemented by nearly four hundred paintings, photographs, maps, and portraits, a compilation of adventure stories chronicles the exploits and accomplishments of the world's greatest explorers, including Marco Polo, David Livingstone, Neil Armstrong... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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