Expeditions & Discoveries

Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europe’s global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from afar be trusted when there was...

From the forests of Inverness-shire to fashionable Park Lane, London, this is the fascinating story of a small group of individuals, whose lives intertwined across the social classes to develop one of today's most beloved breeds of dog - the Golden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455569410Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994517883Author George AnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Thalassic PressPublisher Thalassic PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416535348Author Toby LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 167mm...

The Polar Book created as a facsimile of a now very scarce publication for the British Polar Exhibition of 1930 that celebrated the history of Polar discoveries and expeditions of the day. This is the first edition as a case bound hardback, complete with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772033151Author Michael C NeitzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163883Author David MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780821425138Author Mathilde Leduc-GrimaldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University PressWeight(grams) 178g

One Time Fits All provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuses on three components of uniform time all linked to the prime meridian at Greenwich-the International Date...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982113353Author Andrea PitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 140g

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C...

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...

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...

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

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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...