Expeditions & Discoveries

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...

"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time...

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...

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In...

This Book, A Chronicle Of The Early Sixteenth Century Creation Of The Waldseemuller Map Offers Insight Into How Monks, Classicists, Merchants, And Other Con...

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

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...

Pierre Berton—Canada's most celebrated historian—has earned more than thirty literary awards for his distinguished body of work, and in Prisoners of the...

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...

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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...

Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out “to the ice” to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the p...

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...