Expeditions & Discoveries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781795053808Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297162Author Darrell HartmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm *...

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Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524747374Author Andrea WulfFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1406gDimensions(mm) 311mm * 248mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492766179Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788307703Author Paul ClutterbuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486477329Author Apsley Cherry-GarrardFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956400Author Alan MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The Age of Discovery was a time of exploration and developing new ideas, when Europeans first travelled across the seas to other lands. In his warm and expressive style, Charles Kovacs tells stories of key European historical figures, from the Crusades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996345552Author John M ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Maury BooksPublisher Maury BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Local prosecution associations were a method of controlling crime which was devised in the second half of the eighteenth century, fifty years before the introduction of police forces. They were a national phenomenon, and it is estimated that by the end...

"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Audacious...Life on the Mississippi sparkles." -The Wall Street Journal * "A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch * "Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692185216Author Becky VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey , acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates...

In the mid-1880s, Johnny Lind, a teenager from Pond Mills, Ontario, struck out for adventure and wealth. After a decade working as a railroader in the United States, Johnny headed north, to Yukon and Alaska, and he was mining gold nearby when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492205333Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic account and investigation. In July 1916, a time when World War I loomed over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973693Author Robert KursonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The American Diaries of Count de Berlaymont is the first-ever English translation of a nineteenth-century French travel narrative, outlaying the adventurous travels of Count Guy de Berlaymont throughout the United States and Cuba. Perhaps most...

This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560378037Author Barbara FiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Farcountry PressPublisher Farcountry Press

The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to...

The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing...

Authors Angus Konstam and Roger Michael Kean reveal the truth behind our myths, fairy tales, and Hollywood-inspired images. The reality is, unbelievably, even more intriguing than the flashing swords, talking parrots, and mysterious eye patches portrayed...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982123550Author Andrew RaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272g

In 1842, when famed world explorer James Douglas first encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as "A perfect Eden." He was just one among many European explorers to experience the intense beauty of the...

In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole...

An exciting collection of dangerous adventures, harrowing travels, and heart-stopping journeys, Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories compiles tales from around the globe that are sure to amaze. Popular and well-known tales of exploration...

Heroic endeavour or diaster of hemispheric proportions? What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations. This volume brings together 11...

Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich in details about almost every aspect of the region's...

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061735134Author Nigel CliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 547Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800744981Author Nikita CatherineFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the Gobi Desert might kick back and, over some port, have a chat with a...

John Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based, Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters. This is his only book. He was inspired to write it by a chance encounter with its subject, William Mariner (1791-1853) who spent four years...

After James Cook's voyage in HMS Endeavour, Banks developed a network of scientists and explorers. Banks's correspondence is one of the great primary sources for studying the Pacific region during this important period of exploration and colonial...