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by Sara Wheeler  Publisher Comments The first authorized biography of the antarctic explorer who gave us the greatest classic of polar literature In February 1912, Apsley Cherry-Garrard drove a team of dogs 150 miles to a desolate outpost on Antarctica’s rough ice shelf to meet... (read more)  List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by John Logan Allen Publisher Comments The three volumes that will encompass North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald H Fritze Synopsis Travel Legend and Lore is your Baedeker. More than 200 A-to-Z entries (each with leads to further reading) transport you to the places, real and imaginary, that have lured armchair travelers for millennia, from the ancient Greeks to the American pioneers.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Farrington Synopsis From Christopher Columbus to Charles Darwin, this atlas follows the journeys of great explorers throughout history and around the world. The book features timelines and maps in each section; major inserts on famous explorers, their routes of march and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barry Cunliffe Publisher Comments Around 330 B.C., a remarkable man named Pytheas set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille) to explore the fabled, terrifying lands of northern Europe—a mysterious, largely conjectural zone that, according to Greek science, was too... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by S Allen Counter About the Author S. Allen Counter is a neuroscientist at Harvard and the founder of the Harvard Foundation, an organization devoted to intercultural and race relations. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Solomon Publisher Comments This riveting book tells the tragic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team who in November 1911 began a trek across Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole. After marching 900 miles, the men found that a group of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Burke Publisher Comments Author, journalist, and explorer David Burke was smitten with Antarctica on his first visit in 1958. Forty-three years later he made his sixth trip south aboard a 12,000 ton Russian icebreaker, Kapitan Khlebnikov. The captain and crew's objective was to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Liv Arnesen Publisher Comments The first women to cross the continent of Antarctica on foot "prove that nothing is beyond our wildest dreams" (Billie Jean King) in this riveting true-life adventure of suspense, danger, and endurance.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Paolucci Publisher Comments The story of Christopher Columbus still raises questions and controversies. In this book, Anne Paolucci reviews that story in bold strokes, giving the reader, in terse and compelling prose, the highlights of a life characterized by a brief success and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Turk Publisher Comments Evocative and mesmerizing, Cold Oceans is the thrilling story of Jon Turk's expeditions to some of the most inhospitable regions on earth. Guided by his restless spirit and tales of Elizabethan explorers, Turk first heads off alone to kayak around Cape... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest Shackleton Synopsis Shackleton's voyage to the heart of the frozen continent has been the subject of three "New York Times" bestsellers, a TV documentary, as well as a major motion picture in production. Now, Signet presents the only mass market edition of this history... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert E Peary Publisher Comments Was Robert Peary the first man to reach the North Pole, as he claimed, on April 6, 1909? Rival explorer Frederick A. Cook called Peary's announcement a hoax, a conspiracy to fame supported by Peary's moneyed financiers.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $3.10 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by German Arciniegas Publisher Comments Despite the fact that the Americas were named after Florentine Amérigo Vespucci, he has been one of the least researched characters in American history. In this profile, Vespucci is revealed as a smart, trustworthy businessman and explorer, worthy... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerard Helferich Publisher Comments The thrilling story of the charismatic explorer who Simon Bolivar called "the true discoverer of South America" and the daring expedition that altered the course of science. From 1799 to 1804 German naturalist and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Baker Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack D Forbes Publisher Comments The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $24.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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 David Crane Publisher Comments With full access to all family papers and to the voluminous diaries and records of key participants in the Antarctic expeditions, this richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott is an absolutely convincing portrait of a complicated hero.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Reinhold Messner Publisher Comments Detailed account of Reinhold Messner's and Arved Fuchs' 1,800-mile, 92-day journey on foot across Antarctica.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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