Expeditions & Discoveries

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...

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...

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...

Explores both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From disciplinary and topical perspectives, contributors consider the many ways in which the world of the long 18th century was brought to view...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525435648Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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John Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based, Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters. This comprehensive account of Tongan Society is his only book. He was inspired to write it by a chance encounter with its subject, William...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756801Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

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...

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores the ways in which new polities were established in freshly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064240Author Captain Joshua SlocumFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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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

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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...

Since "Jaws" scared a nation of moviegoers out of the water three decades ago, great white sharks have attained a mythical status as the most frightening and mysterious monsters to still live among us. Each fall, just twenty-seven miles off the San...

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'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...

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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...

"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 *...

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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 *...