Adventurers & Explorers

A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska.John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son,...

The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, "Yellowstone Vic" Smith. Born Victor Grant Smith in 1850, he lived a colorful life across the American frontier from the 1870s to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869198428Author Al J. VenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea Boekhuis

Between 2010 and 2014 Lynn Jenner made several related emotional and intellectual investigations. Lost and Gone Away is the record of these: a fascinating hybrid text of nonfiction, prose poems and poetry. The book traverses the aftermath of the...

As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government-not because he liked the work but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the...

From 1810, when a newspaper published the first account of "Colter's Run," to 2012, when one hundred and fourscore participants in Montana's annual John Colter Run charged up and down rugged trails-even across the waist-deep Gallatin River-interest in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813429366Author Hiram Dr. DracheFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Hobar PublicationsPublisher Hobar PublicationsWeight(grams) 903g

Told through South African conservationist Clive Walker's own experiences, Baobab Trails is the story of a 40-year journey that covered nearly 28,000 miles of southern Africa's diverse landscape in an effort to preserve its natural heritage. Forty trees,...

In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new...

In this book Sonja Krause Goodwin recounts her experience joining the Peace Corps in 1964 and describes the training she underwent to teach in Nigeria at Columbia Teachers College in New York City. Goodwin tells readers about her service as a University...

A joint biography of three extraordinary sisters and the tumultuous century that they helped to shape Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681-1741) is a towering figure in the history of exploration. In the course of two expeditions that consumed most of his adult...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310741Author Ian CutlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780602097Author Peter MayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Eland Publishing LtdPublisher Eland Publishing Ltd

In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, Tappan Adney embarked on his first trip to New Brunswick. He had plans to enrol at Columbia University in the fall, primed for a meteoric rise in academia a but fate intervened. He fell under the spell of the New...

The story of Celso Cesare Moreno, one of the most famous of the emigrant Italian elites or "prominenti." Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to to establish his reputation as a middleman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927330708Author Susan Oakey-BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaPublisher Rocky Mountain Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 608g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926741079Author Walter CheadleFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint TouchWood EditionsPublisher TouchWood EditionsWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

The Italian airship designer and pilot Umberto Nobile had flown to the North Pole and beyond in 1926. He resolved to go back to the Arctic with a new airship in 1928. There were areas of the Arctic that had not been explored and it was believed that new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550175837Author Lisa BaileFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 634g

Trek through the untamed American West, soar through the skies over the majestic Midwest and set sail with L. Ron Hubbard through his early adventures and explorations at the beginning of his epic journey. Anecdotes, articles and photographs illuminate...

Experience the real texture of living in L. Ron Hubbard's letters and journals. Accompany him as he photographs the secluded hinterlands of Puerto Rico, the captivating voyages across the Pacific, the island of Guam and the, then, rarely visited Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941936804Author Douglas McHardieFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Craven Street BooksPublisher Craven Street Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395504Author Sunny FaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of history's most famous travellers and their finest adventures.Inside each of us lives an explorer who yearns to visit the great unknown. Feed the adventurer in you with Origins...

"A layered inquisition and a reportorial force…a technicolor mystery.... In prose that moves like a clear river....Rustad has done what the best storytellers do: tried to track the story to its last twig and then stepped aside.”— New York Times Book...

Ocean Bound Woman is an intriguing first-hand narrative of circumnavigating the globe in the 1880s. Based on family documents stored in a seaman's chest, this book provides a scholarly account of the history of the Swedish sailing-ship Atlantic...

The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck-an Episcopal priest-and his team's history-making summit of Denali. In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029255Author Andrew SchellingFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616496166Author Jeff JayFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hazelden Information & Educational ServicesPublisher Hazelden Information &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250796691Author Brad RiccaFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 137g

The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe-not least also those who admired and desired other men. Among these sojourners was William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman who found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785432354Author Robert E PearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint WanderlustPublisher WanderlustWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061140457Author Robert GoodwinImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927051818Author Anthony DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Visionary, explorer, researcher, diplomat, humanist-Fridtjof Nansen was no ordinary man. Nansen was a dedicated scientist who made an outstanding contribution to marine zoology and oceanography, an audacious adventurer who pushed our knowledge of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615674155Author Erik B KayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Erik B. KayePublisher Erik B. KayeWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998825755Author Kristen JokinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Hawthorne BooksPublisher Hawthorne Books