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Columbus in the Americas
The arrival of Christopher Columbus on American shores, albeit controversial, remains one of the most consequential events in world history. In "Columbus in the Americas", acclaimed and bestselling author William...
The Search For The Inland Sea
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A biography of the explorer John Oxley (1783-1828), third Surveyor General of New South Wales. Oxley undertook the earliest major expeditions west of the Great Dividing Range, believing the western...
The Sugar Rush: A Memoir of Wild Dreams, Budding Bromance, and Making
Filled with humor and raucous adventure, The Sugar Rush is the story of two friends with a sweet, golden, syrupy dream, set against the rugged New England wilderness. Trying to...
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary...
A First Rate Tragedy: A Brief History of Captain Scott's Antarctic
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside,...
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended....
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir Situated in the early decades of the powerful Mughal Empire,...
Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
Fatal Voyage is a story of great feats of navigation and danger, Cook once more traversed the huge uncharted waters of the Pacific, made a brave attempt to find the...
The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus: By His Son Ferdinand
""The cornerstone of the history of the American continent."" --Washington Irving This revised edition (originally published in 1959) of the famous biography of Columbus by his son Ferdinand was published...
My Encyclopedia of Very Important Adventures: For little learners who
A charming book for little learners that's bursting with facts about inspiring explorers, adventurers, daredevils, and pioneers An exciting introduction to the awesome adventures of the eager explorers, dynamic daredevils,...
Down the Great Unknown
This was wild adventure, but it was also a journey with a practical purpose. Powell furthered the cause of modern science, seeing the Grand Canyon as a geological textbook which...
Bligh: Master Mariner
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators,...
Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the
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On the eve of a new century, an up-and-coming Theodore Roosevelt set out to transform the U.S. into a major world power. The Spanish-American War would forever change America's standing...
My Encyclopedia of Very Important Adventures: For little learners who
A charming book for little learners that's bursting with facts about inspiring explorers, adventurers, daredevils, and pioneers An exciting introduction to the awesome adventures of the eager explorers, dynamic daredevils,...
Cook
From Sailor to Legend - the story of Captain James Cook Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time. Written with colour, sweep and the...
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into
The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress 'David Rooney is...
Captain Scott
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress...
Thesiger
In 1979, the author of this work read "Arabian Sands" by W. Thesiger, which had an impact on his life and made him become a desert explorer. In tribute to...
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________ 'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator 'The ride is...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
Matchbook: The Diary of a Modern-Day Matchmaker
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Fans of Sex and the City and Bridget Jones's Diary, and anyone who loves to date vicariously, will fall in love with Matchbook. In this irresistible read, America's hippest Matchmaker...
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a
An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from \"The World's Greatest Living Explorer\" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by...
The Wide Wide Sea
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration - the fateful final journey of Captain James...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A TLS Book of the Year 2022'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical...
Fallen: Everest and the Enigma of George Mallory
On 6 June, 1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Next day they were glimpsed through...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and
An extraordinary treasure trove Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
Mawson
A comprehensive biography of this tall, quiet figure. Ayres not only illuminates Mawson's many achievements but also enables us to know and understand him as a human being. The icon...
Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's...
The Great White South: Traveling with Robert F.Scott's Doomed South
175 photos illustrate this account by photographer Ponting of his journey with Capt. Robert Scott to the Antarctic, a voyage from which Scott did not return.
Holler Rat: A Memoir
Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came...
My Attainment of the Pole
Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus...
The Man Who Loved Siberia
Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains
'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
From "weird, scary, ingenious" ( The New York Times ) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and "laugh-out-loud funny" (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York...
Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend.
The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have...
Maurice and Maralyn: An extraordinary true story of shipwreck,
An extraordinary true tale of love, shipwreck and survival, beautifully told -- Maurice and Maralyn's escape from 1970s England and its oil crisis, strikes and inflation is also a story...
Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture,...
James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world
Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real...
Sisters in Captivity: Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth...
Five Days in November
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