Exploration - Used Books
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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 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 John Bockstace Synopsis The Arctic is a land of elemental contrasts, a place of both sublime beauty and unforgiving harshness. From the heat and endless light of summer to the punishing cold and deep blue nights of winter, its great organic oneness has been admired and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jones And Scott Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-333) and index.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Neider Publisher Comments This book presents Charles Neider's fascinating narrative of his third trip beyond Cape Horn to Antarctica--the last wild place on earth.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roland Huntford Publisher Comments The acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $4.18 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerri Nielsen 
Publisher Comments Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $2.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Don Starkell Synopsis The incredible story of a kayak quest across the roof of the world.... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Millman Publisher Comments Lawrence Millman writes stylish, often wildly amusing tales of remote places and offbeat characters (from the South Pacific islands of Yap to eccentric author and explorer Hassoldt Davis, a literary man-of-action whose many brushes with death including... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.25 (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 Frederick A Cook Publisher Comments The accounts of Cook and Peary's expeditions combined.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Norman Vaughan Publisher Comments Norman Vaughan recounts the story of his amazing life, which includes exploring Antarctica as part of Byrd's 1929 expedition, then returning 65 years later to climb Mount Vaughan, the polar peak named in his honor.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (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 Anne Salmond Publisher Comments Captain Cook in the South Seas. A spectacular recreation of three of the greatest and most startling of all human journeys.... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dav Hempleman Adams Publisher Comments For adventurers, climbing the Seven Summits—including Everest—and reaching all four Poles is the Holy Grail of world exploration. In 1998, David Hempleman-Adams became the first man on the planet to do it. In Walking on Thin Ice, the world's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by F A Worsley Publisher Comments You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets", replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Roberts Synopsis Did Peary reach the North Pole? Was Admiral Byrd the first to fly over it? Did Frederick Cook actually make the first ascent of Mt. McKinley? Spanning 450 years of history, Great Exploration Hoaxes tells the spellbinding stories of ten men who pursued... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Aughton Publisher Comments Dramatically told, often in the words of the voyagers themselves, and beautifully illustrated with maps, portraits and historic illustrations, these are the gripping stories of how a handful of sailors, adventures, pirates and mavericks shaped the course... (read more) Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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