Expeditions & Discoveries

For years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper's naturalist's edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive ver...

From The Mid-fifteenth To Mid-eighteenth Centuries, The Driving Force Behind World Exploration Was Europe's Growing Passion For The Luxuries Of Life And For...

america's First Frontier Was Not The West; It Was The Sea—and No One Writes More Eloquently About That Watery Wilderness Than Nathaniel Philbrick. In His ...

He led the greatest sailing voyage of all time: five years at sea, across 65,000 miles of ocean, the equivalent of twice around the world, visiting every co...

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. Nathaniel Philbrick now re...

Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwr...

No event in our history is more legendary than the Yukon Gold Rush of 1896. On August 16, when rich gold deposits were discovered in Bonanza Creek, 100,000...

Perkins, President Of A Business Consulting Group, Cites Critical Moments In Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic Expedition To Illustrate Ten Strategies To Improve ...

In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South ...

One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of t...

Published Simultaneously In New York By Alfred A. Knopf Under Title: Irresistible North : From Venice To Greenland On The Trail Of The Zen Brothers. Include...

From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage a...

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers--including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker--this vivid and authoritative adventure history chron...

An omnibus edition of Facing Up and Facing The Frozen Ocean, about two of the greatest adventures of Bear Grylls, one of the world's most famous survivors B...

“Bear Grylls is a veritable superhero….The former UK Special Forces paratrooper has braved the world’s harshest environments.”—Hampton Sides, Out...

Intrepid Voyager, Writer And Comedian Michael Palin Follows The Trail Of Two Expeditions Made By The Royal Navy's Hms Erebus To Opposite Ends Of The Globe, ...

From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris ...

from The Bestselling Author Of The Definitive Book On D-day Comes The Definitive Book On The Most Momentous Expedition In American History And One Of The G...

Bear Grylls has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on a remote island off of Britain's windswept coast, he was taught by his father to sai...

in April 1992 A Young Man From A Well-to-do Family Hitchhiked To Alaska And Walked Alone Into The Wilderness North Of Mt. Mckinley. His Name Was Christophe...

A spellbinding adventure about investigating folklore in the wilds from a beloved modern-day explorer.Categories: History WorldExpeditions & Discoveries...

Book by Owen Beattie, John GeigerCategories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

Collects the dramatic, true-life accounts of the remarkable underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of NUMA volunteers--a group dedicated to ...

NOMINATED FOR THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS-TV'S THE MORNING SHOW Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hu...

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Times} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} The #1 New York Times a...

The thrilling adventures of traveler, rancher, and fighter Big-Foot” Wallace in a bygone era of the American frontier. Amid the embroiling conflicts of f...

Chronicles Early Expeditions To Uncover The Treasures Of El Dorado And Looks At The Culture, Sophisticated Skills, And Traditions Of The Colombian Indians. ...

In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat of...

Prologue: Obsession -- Part One: Some Gallant Heart. A Blaze Of Light ; Shadows ; Bond For Our Blood ; The Abban ; The Enemy Is Upon Us -- Part Two: What Mi...

Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near t...

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 sc...

A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the ...

Canadian Writer. Vikings, Europeans To Reach Norhern Canada, Albans, Celt, Norse. Farley Mowat. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 335-354) And Index.C...