Expeditions & Discoveries

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Utilizing forensic evidence that was ignored by the police, and documents that have never before been released to the public, Alan Strachan has produced the horrific account of a man who was wrongfully executed for rape and murder -- even though it is...

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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

In the winter of 1739, Georg Steller received word from Empress Anna of Russia that he was to embark on a secret expedition to the far reaches of Siberia as a member of the Great Northern Expedition. While searching for economic possibilities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307276568Author Anthony BrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 412gDimensions(mm)...

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In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent. He has a ship (the aptly named Endurance), a head brimming with optimism, and 28 men willing...

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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...

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 9780987305299Author Sir Walter BesantFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Robert W StrugnellPublisher Robert W StrugnellWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355205575Author Manoj Kumar MisraFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

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This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they "discovered." While Cook and his men were initially confounded by the Polynesians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480116801Author Tony RichesFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519764Author John Odling-SmeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 202mm *...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991109449Author John S NagyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Prometheus Genesis PublishingPublisher Prometheus Genesis PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

Richard Garriott has been many things: video game pioneer; wildly successful entrepreneur; and daring adventurer. In 1997, Garriott, who is known online by the handle "Lord British," forever changed the video game industry when he published Ultima...

Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much...

Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486833132Author Ernest ShackletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781549651205Author Patrick StakemFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

In the feverish, money-making age of railroad barons, political machines, and gold rushes, corruption was the rule, not the exception. Yet the Republican mogul 'Big Alex' McKenzie's audacity was remarkable. Charismatic and shameless, he arrived in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226791050Author Mirela AlticFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 178g

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The "outstanding" biography of the Italian navigator and explorer from the bestselling author of The Great Siege (The New York Times). Christopher Columbus, credited with discovering America in 1492, was a great explorer who forever changed the world-but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629146997Author Garth James CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535038799Author Steven R ServiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause celebre of the nineteenth century. Just before sunset on August 8th 1882 HMS Cockatrice, a small...

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first...

This is a first edition case bound hardback, which contains a number of Photographs and maps of Antarctica which appeared with a Tom Crean feature after his death by Dennis Barry. The rest of the book contains photos showing Discovery just fitted out...

As polar exploration reached its zenith, and in the same month that Captain Robert Falcon Scott perished in Antarctica, four young scientists from Zurich took ship for Greenland. Though they had little previous experience of arctic travel, their ambition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639361458Author Mick ConefreyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...