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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen
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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)
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Into the Blue Boldly Going Where Captain
by Tony Horwitz
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In a vivid and humorous narrative, Horwitz retraces the great voyages of James Cook. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Confederates In The Attic". "A fine piece of reporting" "Guardian".... ( read more)
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
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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)
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The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
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The harrowing tale of the Ross Sea party, the other side of Shackleton's Endurance expedition.
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few... ( read more)
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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
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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)
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South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
by Ernest H Shackleton
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Based upon Shackletons diaries and writings , South gives the reader an insight into the appalling condi tions that the author and his party endured when the Enduran ce lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea... ( read more)
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
by Jennifer Niven
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Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through... ( read more)
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South
by Ernest Shackleton
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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)
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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole
by Fergus Fleming
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Fleming relates the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole. In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was... ( read more)
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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
by Linda Colley
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This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to... ( read more)
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As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure
by George Plimpton
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Tales of exploration from the worlds most exclusive... ( read more)
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The Travels Marco Polo (Penguin Classics)
by Marco Polo
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Classic translation of Marco Polo's famous travels. Includes index and maps.... ( read more)
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Over the Edge of the World Magellans
by Laurence Bergreen
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A superb story that throws light on Magellan’s audacious circumnavigation of the globe, Over the Edge of the World is a fascinating lesson in history that delivers as much adventure and appeal as Dava Sobel’s Longitude, and Nathaniel... ( read more)
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Weird and Tragic Shores (Modern Library Exploration)
by Chauncey C Loomis
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In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any... ( read more)
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Latin American Literature & Culture #0010: Castaways
by A N Cabeza De Vaca
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This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of "Castaways" ("Naufragios"), Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an... ( read more)
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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest
by Ranulph Fiennes
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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)
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Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat
by Alexander And Shackleton
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January 15th. A rather breezy day. Breakfast of tinned rabbit waiting for me in my bowl. Went on deck for my Watch, stationing myself under stern rail and leaning over so as to observe the bubbles in our wake. Was joined at rail by some of my shipmates... ( read more)
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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
by Bill Gifford
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For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... ( read more)
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Jaguars and Electric Eels
by Alexan Von Humboldt
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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)
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
by Samuel Elio Morison
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Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 fold-outs.... ( read more)
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