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1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies 9780061564895
RRP: $44.83$29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061564895Author Gavin MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton
RRP: $25.33$17.22In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American... -
It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin 9780141398556 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.85$3.47'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate... -
Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace by Julia Cooke 9781785787799
RRP: $21.43$8.33At a time when that 1960s notion of air travel as decadent and exceptional is experiencing an unexpected revival, this book ... could be the G&T in a plastic glass you need.' The SpectatorTravel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am... -
The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue by Stephen McGinty
RRP: $19.48$13.10The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out of their depth, out of breath, and out of time. It was 1973. Two men were trapped in a crippled submarine... -
The Ra Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 9780006545309
RRP: $23.38$19.05Ra is the story of Heyerdahl's voyage from North Africa to South America in a 45 ft papyrus boat modelled on those depicted in the pharoah's wall paintings. A violent storm ended the first expedition but within a year the seven men had embarked on their... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn
$29.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563617Author Mary DearbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen
RRP: $21.43$15.58He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged... -
K2 by David Roberts 9780767932608
RRP: $29.23$19.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767932608Author Ed ViestursFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood 9781801102575
RRP: $39.00$28.29100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and... -
The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier by Tim Flannery
$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137197Author Tim FlanneryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal 9781913505721
RRP: $25.33$17.90When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great - yet forgotten - novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend,... -
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell 9781602399693
$23.32This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and... -
Northern Lights: The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan 9781780277875
RRP: $58.50$39.20Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage - a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific - has not received a great deal of attention. This book charts the extensive contribution... -
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon 9781642503371
RRP: $27.28$21.35For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." -Wreck Watch MagazineMaritime Media Mountbatten Literary Award... -
Geography and Enlightenment David N. Livingstone 9780226487212
RRP: $78.00$75.95Explores both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From disciplinary and topical perspectives, contributors consider the many ways in which the world of the long 18th century was brought to view... -
Meet the Georgians by Rob Peal
RRP: $37.03$13.75'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept... -
Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain's Wildest Century by Robert Peal
RRP: $21.43$14.55'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept... -
Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet by Larry Crumpler 9780008407261
RRP: $48.75$28.57From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-colour photographs-a wondrous chronicle of... -
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
RRP: $21.43$15.58Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.'A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with... -
Over the Edge of the World, Updated Edition: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen 9780062890481
RRP: $38.98$31.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062890481Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Prince Henry "the Navigator": A Life by P. E. Russell 9780300091304
RRP: $37.03$31.55Henry the Navigator, fifteenth-century Portuguese prince and explorer, is a legendary, almost mythical figure in late medieval history. Considered along with Columbus to be one of the progenitors of modernity, Prince Henry challenged the scientific... -
In The Footsteps Of Adam by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: $25.33$17.22Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic exploration of the world and the amazing events that Heyerdahl... -
Sherpa by Ankit Babu Adhikari
RRP: $39.00$35.69SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATUREChanging the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world.Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale... -
Livingstone by Tim Jeal
RRP: $37.03$32.33An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography of the great explorer David Livingstone David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin
RRP: $39.00$34.36A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands... -
Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 Sandeep Jauhar 9781786075734
RRP: $19.48$12.89'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New... -
Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance by Malyn Newitt
RRP: $48.75$47.87Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in... -
Thin White Line by Andy Cave
RRP: $31.18$28.22In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... -
The Dig Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition by Sarah Murgatroyd 9780747562986 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08$4.47In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262785
RRP: $19.48$13.34'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire Nicholas Thomas 9780300180565
RRP: $33.13$28.49An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin 9780008333409
RRP: $21.43$14.55A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands... -
Captain Shakespear: Desert exploration, Arabian intrigue and the rise of Ibn Sa'ud by Alan Dillon 9781911487333
RRP: $48.75$40.99Two years before T E Lawrence received orders to travel to the Hejaz to liaise with the leader of the Arab Revolt, other British officers had already roamed the Arabian Peninsula's unforgiving Nejdi desert, to rally tribal support for the British war... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley
RRP: $33.13$19.09'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Searching for Franklin: New Light on History’s Worst Arctic Disaster by Ken McGoogan 9781771623681
RRP: $42.88$29.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623681Author Ken McGooganFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Boehme
RRP: $27.28$18.53"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the... -
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Journey by Caroline Alexander 9780375404030
RRP: $58.50$47.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Awards 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780375404030Author Caroline AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A... -
Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson 9781513208664
RRP: $19.48$15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208664Author Matthew HensonFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g -
The Hunt for Mount Everest Craig Storti 9781529331530
RRP: $39.00$23.85The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain...