Expeditions & Discoveries

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.

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

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 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)...

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 9780226791050Author Mirela AlticFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 178g

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...

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 *...

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...

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The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices-to mention some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995130968Author Joan DruettFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Old Salt PressPublisher Old Salt PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556351914Author John Hanning SpekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 703g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870046049Author William E HillFormat PaperbackImprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton PressWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993220357Author Justin GerlachFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Phelsuma PressPublisher Phelsuma PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806153858Author Robert S McPhersonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

The extraordinary story of the world's last major exploration and experience of first-contact-a 1938-39 Australian expedition of three thousand kilometres by foot, through the mountainous western highlands of Papua New Guinea.The pale skin of the...

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645720839Author Anonymous Author KanenasFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Anonymous Publishing HousePublisher Anonymous Publishing House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953378760Author Justin GerlachFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Phelsuma PressPublisher Phelsuma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645486001Author Shannon AzzaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Tale PublishingPublisher Tale Publishing

"To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 1795-97 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis and Clark found when they voyaged up the river in 1804. . . . Of all those waterways, none has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648739029Author Tom ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint ETT ImprintPublisher ETT Imprint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645905922Author History TitansFormat HardbackPage Count 98Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645334708Author Bill StanfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint William Morris StanfordPublisher William Morris StanfordWeight(grams) 903g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393022940Author Clive JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

The dramatic story of the largest voyage of discovery in the history of the world, this is an astounding tale of courage, arrogance and adventure on the high seas from the author of 'In the Heart of the Sea'. Headed by the controversial Lieutenant...