Adventurers & Explorers

In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621453383Author Leon LogothetisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501143373Author Ed CaesarFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

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The authoritative biography of British explorer Sir Francis Drake, from the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Long considered one of the great heroes of British history, Sir Francis Drake was a brilliant navigator, intrepid explorer, and fearsome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090600202Author Nigelle de VismeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Roberto Polo GalleryPublisher Roberto Polo Gallery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621453239Author Leon LogothetisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534040Author Ben ShattuckFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968927Author Sara WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311229Author Owen ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering...

In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering...

'A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn't write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time ... that is why my book is not in chronological order; for everything is of the present, held in the moment when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994316585Author Alistair McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Discover Your TribePublisher Discover Your TribeWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal...

Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue climbing. Her choices were clear: give in to her doubts and descend or push past her own limits and continue up the mountain's steep face...

W.C. Jameson was an active treasure hunter for more than fifty years. He has fallen from cliffs, had ropes break during climbs, been caught in mine shaft cave-ins, contended with flash floods, been shot at, watched men die, and had to deal with...

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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"Scott Parazynski's drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being." -John Glenn, NASA astronaut An epic...

"Scott Parazynski's drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being." -John Glenn, NASA astronaut An epic...

Lieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 1938) was a British Army officer with an established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of Tibet, his explorations of the Himalayas, and a biography which included records of the 1903-4 military...

"Let's go!" With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the stars from within the shadowy world of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620931700Author Lisa ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Lisa ArmstrongPublisher Lisa ArmstrongWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halevy on his archaeological tour of Yemen. Twenty years later, Habshush wrote A Vision of Yemen, a memoir of their travels, that provides a vivid account of daily life,...

This is the first full-length biography of George James Christian. Originally from Dominica, Christian qualified as a barrister-at-law in London, participated in the first pan-African conference and migrated to the Gold Coast in 1902 where he established...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646953731Author Shirley Hardy-RixFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shirley Hardy-RixPublisher Shirley Hardy-Rix

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647507480Author Sally FennerFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

An affectionate travelogue that conveys not only impressions of everyday life and descriptions of unique Tibetan customs and traditions but brings us Tibetan history, politics, and religion from a fresh, unstudied perspective Despite the determined...

An affectionate travelogue that conveys not only impressions of everyday life and descriptions of unique Tibetan customs and traditions but brings us Tibetan history, politics, and religion from a fresh, unstudied perspective Despite the determined...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420967913Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461345Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the...

Son of a scientifically-minded Scottish aristocrat, Basil Hall joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13 in 1802. His first naval engagements in America and Spain during the Peninsular War are described, as are his travels in India and the Far East. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140437515Author Charles A. SiringoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...