Expeditions & Discoveries

Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of...

Before Captain Cook's three voyages, to Europeans the globe was uncertain and dangerous; after, it was comprehensible and ordered. Written as a conceptual field guide to the voyages, Longitude and Empire offers a significant rereading of both the...

Borrowing from his naval experience and his expertise as a historian, David Stam performed extensive archival and secondary research for this study of the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International...

The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of `humanity' through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471391487Author Michael GolayFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 1140g

This is a chronological history of the Sufi tradition, divided in to three sections, early, middle and modern periods. The book comprises 35 independent chapters with easily identifiable themes and/or geographical threads, all written by recognised...

An award‑winning environmental historian explores American history through wrenching, tragic, and sometimes humorous stories of getting lost"Fascinating. . . . Underlying . . . is a deep belief in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between...

First published in 1555, Cabeza de Vaca's narrative of his South American expeditions is a detailed account of his five years as governor of Spain's province of the Rio de la Plata in South America. Cabeza de Vaca was already a celebrated explorer by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623476Author Gordon MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species-interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"-are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist...

The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of...

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 9781647480028Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162125Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm)...

Hidden behind the Himalayas and ruled over by a God-king, Tibet has always cast a powerful spell over travellers form the West. In this remarkable, and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241682791Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint DKPublisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd

A compelling history of the lives of five Scottish medical explorers set in the context of British dominance in exploration. It opens a new and enlightening window on this great era of exploration.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598670Author Jim WillisFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of...

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767–1820, for the first time publishing this globally scattered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598557Author Jim WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures—including Sacagawea, Pocahontas and Dr Livingstone—with tales of individuals who...

Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of...