Expeditions & Discoveries

Documenting The Interconnectedness Among The Crucial Milestones Of Our Time, And Illustrated With Full-color Photography, A Comprehensive Tour Of Modern Sci...

The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedi...

In History, Myth Often Abides. It Was Long Assumed That The Centuries Immediately Prior To Ad 1000 Were Lacking In Any Major Cultural Developments Or Geopol...

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

Product Description *A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*\From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly ...

National bestsellerA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer."In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, best...

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

A Best Book of the YearUSA Today * Time Magazine * Washington Post * Miami Herald * Richmond Times Dispatch * Christian Science Monitor * Daily Beast * Min...

A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, this blockbuster adventure takes listeners on a gripping journey into the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove...

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...

The truth is that John Rae solved the two great mysteries ofnineteenth-century Arctic exploration: during a single expedition in 1854, hediscovered both th...

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...

Chronicles The Final Voyage Of The Ss Central America, As It Sank Off The Carolina Coast In 1857, And Explains The Recent Technology Used To Recover The Shi...

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beas...

Here, For The First Time In A Single Volume, Is The Full And Detailed Saga Of The Nineteenth-century Quest For Two Of The World's Great Geographical Prizes....

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...

From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's Explorers tells th...

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...

Canadian Edition, revised and updated.With hundreds of thousands of copies in print around the world, Smart Women Finish Rich, by financial advisor David Ba...

This First-person Narrative About An Archaeological Discovery Is Rewriting The Story Of Human Evolution. A Story Of Defiance And Determination By A Controve...

The spellbinding story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history—and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent d...

Robert Snedden explores the great mathematical breakthroughs in history in this beautiful, full-colour, hardback volume, featuring nearly 200 illustrations ...

This is the complete saga of the pursuit for two of the world's greatest geographical prizes--the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic, the Pacific, and th...

A Well-researched Story Brilliantly Recounts How Twenty-eight Men Battled Against Almost Insuperable Odds In 1914 To Return To Civilization After Their Ship...

In The Late Nineteenth Century, People Were Obsessed By One Of The Last Unmapped Areas Of The Globe: The North Pole. No One Knew What Existed Beyond The For...

An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery—from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyage...

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...

Featuring show-stopping imagery and thrilling behind-the-scenes tales, National Geographic 125 Years captures the heart of National Geographic's fascinatin...