Exploration - Used Books
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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 Lynne Withey Publisher Comments Voyages of Discovery is the story of the last great age of European sea exploration, when state-supported expeditions driven by both scientific and political motives set out to map the remaining unknown parts of the globe. Focusing on the voyages of the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sheila Nickerson Publisher Comments In 1871, Charles Francis Hall's Polaris expedition set out to be the first official American party to reach the North Pole. Five months later, the Polaris had become locked in ice and Hall was dead-likely murdered. The expedition members were set adrift... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $2.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Derek Oconnor Publisher Comments John Duncan first sailed to West Africa in 1841, as master-at-arms aboard HMS Albert, flagship of the Niger steamship expedition. Ravaged by disease, this anti-slavery mission soon turned into a debacle that nearly cost Duncan his life. Undeterred... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Samuel Bawlf Publisher Comments Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, geographer and maritime historian Bawlf masterfully reconstructs Francis Drake's historic round-the-world expedition, exploring the drama surrounding the voyage and offering intriguing insights into life at sea in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill A Fredston 
Publisher Comments Two by sea: A couple rows the wild coasts of the far northJill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J C Beaglehole Publisher Comments The culmination of the life work of the most distinguished historian of Pacific exploration, this lavishly illustrated biography places Cook in the context of his times and affirms his eminence in the history of maritime discovery.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Djelal Kadir Publisher Comments Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of explorers whose right to claim and conquer each new land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. Columbus and the Ends of the Earth brings to life the system of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 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 Diana Preston Publisher Comments On November 12, 1912, a rescue party trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier found what they had set out to find: the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lying... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Publisher Comments Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remarkable book is his odyssey, first written in 1542 as an official report to the king of Spain under the title La Relacion.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mick Conefrey Publisher Comments Conefrey and Jordan profile legendary adventurers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook as well as lesser-known Arctic explorers who left their marks. Photos.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roald Amundsen Publisher Comments Part historical essay, part scientific article, and part enthralling diary-Roald Amundsen's (1872-1928) book presents intriguing documentation about how his expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, just one month ahead of his rival, Robert... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Myron Arms Publisher Comments For twenty-four hours after leaving Gotthabsfiord, Brendan's Isle races before strong easterly winds, skidding down the faces of following seas, vibrating and shuddering, throwing a curtain of spray from her bows, carving a line of white foam in her wake.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $1.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Fredston
Publisher Comments Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.50 (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 $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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