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by Laurence Bergreen  
Powells.com Staff Pick Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more) Your Price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Alfred Lansing
From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Joan Myers Publisher Comments Award-winning photographer Joan Myers traversed Antarctica by plane, helicopter, and snowmobile to capture life at McMurdo and surrounding field stations, explorers' abandoned huts, the South Pole, and Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, among other landmarks.... (read more) Your Price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Alexan Von Humboldt Publisher Comments A great and innovative thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in... (read more) Your Price $4.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by George Plimpton Publisher Comments Tales of exploration from the worlds most exclusive... (read more) Your Price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Paul Schneider Publisher Comments “Schneider’s thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget.” —The New York Times Book Review A gripping survival epic, Brutal Journey... (read more) Your Price $15.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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by Marco Polo Publisher Comments Classic translation of Marco Polo's famous travels. Includes index and maps.... (read more) Your Price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ranulph Fiennes Publisher Comments The real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest is told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed "the world's greatest living explorer," Sir Ranulph Fiennes.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments Comparable to "Into Thin Air" and "Alive, " this first-hand account of the expedition which is the subject of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Arctic Expedition" is written by the leader of the fateful expedition... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Geoffrey Symcox Publisher Comments In 1492, previously separate worlds collided and began to merge, often painfully, into the world-system in which we live today. Columbus's four Atlantic voyages (1492-1504) helped link Africa, Europe, and the America. These carefully selected documents... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Fergus Fleming Synopsis Adventure literature at its best: the breathtaking story of England's heroic 19th-century expedition to the Arctic, the heart of Africa, and Antarctica, under the command of John Barrow.... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Mick Conefrey Publisher Comments Conefrey and Jordan profile legendary adventurers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook as well as lesser-known Arctic explorers who left their marks. Photos.... (read more) Your Price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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