Expeditions & Discoveries

A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors. "For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced."-Samuel...

The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalised generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061564895Author Gavin MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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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 how...

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 9780954919429Author Michael TraynorFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Michael TraynorPublisher Michael Traynor

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)...

Geography Militant is a compelling account of the relations between geographical knowledge, exploration and empire.About the AuthorFelix Driver is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Power and...

Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century," naturalists for the first time were commonly...

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 *...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803502Author Constance Victoria BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited...

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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385543101Author Candice MillardFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm)...

"That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312428327Author Tony HorwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909219106Author David ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Greyhound Self-PublishingPublisher Greyhound Self-Publishing

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their...

It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long...

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 *...

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...

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'...

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...

In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. In the wake of his diagnosis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954919412Author Michael TraynorFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint Michael TraynorPublisher Michael Traynor

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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 9781451677584Author Martin DugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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 9781416535348Author Toby LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 167mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616402624Author Ibn BattutaFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of...

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 *...

Half a century has passed since arguably the greatest feat of the twentieth century: when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11: The Moon Landing In Real Time brings the mission back to life as never before in a thrilling...

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 9781680515411Author Katie IvesFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...