Expeditions & Discoveries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616085940Author Michael AsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912937011Author Blue Magpie BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Blue Magpie BooksPublisher Blue Magpie BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910858196Author Lewis Grassic GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint JetstonePublisher JetstoneWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 21mm * 12mm * 5mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455540006Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400047536Author David KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

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.

David Livingstone was one of the intrepid and daring explorers of the Victorian age. In 1858, he and his brother embarked upon an expedition up the Zambesi river to explore Eastern and Central Africa, and in 1859 they and their party became the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911072331Author Ken LeesFormat HardbackImprint Skyscraper PublicationsPublisher Skyscraper Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755248Author Tim SeverinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266g

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)...

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 9780802142726Author Fergus FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

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

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...

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...

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...

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) 259g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647483616Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

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 9780940450103Author Francis ParkmanFormat HardbackPage Count 1504Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

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...

The authoritative biography of British explorer Sir Francis Drake, from the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Long considered one of the great heroes of British history, Sir Francis Drake was a brilliant navigator, intrepid explorer, and fearsome...

Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook's career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982113346Author Andrea PitzerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187868Author Robin Hanbury-TenisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

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 9781845407636Author Alan PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint Academic

"We did not all come back." Thus begins the rare firsthand account of the extraordinary ordeal of the Karluk, the flagship of explorer Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Arctic expedition of 1913-1916. When ice trapped the Karluk, Stefansson abandoned Captain...

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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814828413Author Juleen ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Marshall Cavendish EditionsPublisher Marshall Cavendish Editions

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439268018Author Professor Joy DunkerleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams)...