Expeditions & Discoveries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562716Author Tommy CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

This is a book about expedition, adventure, our thirst for knowledge and pushing the limits of human endurance.From the navigational instruments that have led us through unknown lands, to the advanced engineering that carried us into the depths of the...

Every schoolchild knows that "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" - but what they don't teach you in history class is that he wasn't the only one. In The Race to the New World, Douglas Hunter tells for the first time the fascinating tale of...

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)...

'A fabulously rich, anecdotal and gripping account of those men and women who ventured out from Britain into the swamps and jungles of the tropics in search, knowingly or not, of the missing link. Through their stoical-sometimes crack-brained-voyages,...

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845-whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice-with the tale of the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, who was on the...

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World relates Polo's experiences in Asia and at the court of Qubilai, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194108Author Valerie HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows...

Memories of Chinatown is a Singapore classic and is now republished with a new visual interpretation by watercolour artist Graham Byfield. Both a memoir and a narrative guide to the vibrant spirit of a bygone Singapore, it is written by much loved...

'Fascinating.' Telegraph Birdie Bowers is a woman with a dead man's name. Her parents had been fascinated by Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, one of Captain Scott's companions on his ill-fated polar expedition. A hundred years after the death of Bowers and...

The Second World War Chief of MI6 said Alexander Wilson had 'remarkable gifts as a writer of fiction, and no sense of responsibility in using them!' Wilson's three year career in the Secret Intelligence Service ended when the country's spy chiefs decided...

Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in...

This fascinating, meticulously researched book is an affectionate account of an English country home, Higham Hall in Kent. When you live in a historic house, you are always conscious of your predecessors. 'Gunpowder, Apples and Cement' brings the...

Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992055943Author Vladislav LobatchevFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Parallel Worlds' BooksPublisher Parallel Worlds' BooksWeight(grams) 254g

Dr Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter - one of the select group of scientists working diligently to map our cosmic neighbourhood. For the first time ever we are reaching the point where we may be able to prevent a natural disaster resulting from an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083200Author Paul SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario...

This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Levant Company, and the Russia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077496Author Alvin M. JosephyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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This is an abridgement of Samuel Morison's magnum opus, The European Discovery of America, in which he describes the early voyages that led to the discovery of the New World. All the acclaimed Morison touches are here - the meticulous research and...

As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904524915Author Michael WardFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Hayloft PublishingPublisher Hayloft PublishingDimensions(mm) 250mm * 180mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366354Author Mick ConefreyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993395116Author Francisco SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Centrala LtdPublisher Centrala LtdWeight(grams) 555gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm *...

In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His...

Some myths don't die, and lies are still being told about Christopher Columbus: that he 'discovered' the Americas, that the land was sparsely populated by native people, that those people were primitive and that they submitted to Columbus's 'God-like'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680515411Author Katie IvesFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The search for the North West Passage took many lives, not least the entire crews of Franklin's Erebus and Terror. This book tells the story of not just Franklin and his ill-fated expedition but also tells the story of the involvement of the Royal Navy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927129197Author Sir Sir Francis Leopold McClintockFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TouchWood EditionsPublisher TouchWood EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742438Author Monte ReelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916007246Author Diana Matos GagicFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Crafty Birdie DesignsPublisher Crafty Birdie DesignsWeight(grams)...

For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a...

This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim to have discovered the source of the Nile during their African expedition in 1857-59. Speke died of a gunshot...

In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as "the most gigantic ape known to zoology." Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992258856Author Joan DruettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Joan DruettPublisher Joan DruettWeight(grams) 245g

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953758265Author Mustafa Siba'iFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Claritas BooksPublisher Claritas Books