Adventurers & Explorers

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

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

Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, "Wind, Sand and Stars" is unsurprassed in capturing the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure - through the treacherous passes of the Pyrenees,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153427Author Sebastian JungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501116308Author Franklin JFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

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...

Originally published in 1868, this book follows the life of Prince Henry, including chapters on the Siege of Tangier, the capture of Ceuta and the death of Prince Henry.Book InformationISBN 9780367264208Author Richard Henry MajorFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647507688Author Dale KruseFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 249g

Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War. Today, political strategists view the South as an essential region to cultivate if political hopefuls are to have a chance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311410Author Joan LowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Visiting Africa: A Memoir is a personal journey as well as a physical one: it is about my ongoing and evolving attempt to approach Africa and its cultures with humility and modesty and about my struggles as a privileged white man to ethically encounter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063297401Author Mensun BoundFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 152g

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present-- of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the worldOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River...

An engrossing narrative of one man's struggle to achieve his dream against all odds, this is both a fast-paced adventure and a telling commentary on how heroes are often made despite the system they operate in, by dint of sheer perseverance and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622257Author Sharon WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 521gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809083886Author Paul E JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 20mm

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,...

The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as to its authenticity. Did this intrepid Venetian really trek across Asia minor as a teenager, explore the length and breadth...

The Triumphs, Struggles, and Secrets of a Captain's Life Richard Metz was a Great Lakes captain for 20 years. He experienced wild weather, close calls, near misses, and events that can only be described as "unimaginable." He has incredible sea stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501143380Author Ed CaesarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

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...

Join the Search for Lost Treasure First popularized by folklorist and author J. Frank Dobie in his book Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver in 1928, the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings is one of the most mythologized tales of lost treasure on the continent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582436166Author Daniel ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 685g