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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World Matthew Goodman 9780345527271
RRP: $29.23$18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527271Author Matthew GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)... -
The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912 by Captian Roald Amundsen
RRP: $48.75$39.82Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but-due... -
Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Untethered Flight in Space by Bruce McCandless III 9781626348653
RRP: $44.36$32.72One of the most powerful images in the history of space exploration is of an astronaut in a spacesuit, untethered, and seemingly floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II was the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around is the... -
The Magnetism of Antarctica: The Ross Expedition 1839-1843 by John Knight
RRP: $37.03$30.99This under-documented expedition was a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration and was the starting point, in historical terms, of revealing the great unknown continent of Antarctica. It was the first time in nearly 70 years since Captain James... -
The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages by Dr. Beth Fowkes Tobin
RRP: $58.50$50.41Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in eighteenth-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was... -
A Book of Voyages by Patrick O'Brian 9780007487127 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.78An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth. Patrick O'Brian has unearthed... -
A Book of Voyages by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: $19.48$13.10An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth. Patrick O'Brian has unearthed... -
Captain Phil Harris by Harris 9781451666069
RRP: $33.15$22.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451666069Author HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Restall 9780195392296
RRP: $17.53$13.30With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the... -
The Untold Story of Captain James Cook RN: Revelations of a Historical Researcher by Colin Waters 9781399056960
RRP: $42.90$30.95The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, left no modern direct descendants. Using compelling, detailed and verifiable evidence, Colin Waters... -
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order by Jason Sharman
RRP: $68.25$54.50How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology,... -
Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas by Gavin Menzies 9780062236784
$26.23Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who... -
The Faber Book of Exploration by Benedict Allen
RRP: $33.13$22.58What does it feel like to walk off the edge of a map? To emerge dazed, dying yet triumphant, from the Amazon? Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration ranges across various terrains - hot and cold deserts, mountains and plains, jungles and high... -
Daredevils of the Atlantic Ocean: Unusual Crossings in Unlikely Vessels by Peter Firstbrook 9781948494342
RRP: $40.95$29.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948494342Author Peter FirstbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seaworthy Publications Inc.Publisher Seaworthy Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth
RRP: $35.08$20.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062691552Author Jill HeinerthFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
The True History of The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal del Diaz Castillo
RRP: $38.98$35.67This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the... -
Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley 9780393318647
RRP: $33.15$28.14Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by... -
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark by Tudor Parfitt 9780007262687
RRP: $25.33$19.42Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest. This is the real-life account of... -
Sea Dogs: Life Aboard an English Galleon by James Seay Dean
RRP: $29.23$22.52'James Seay Dean is the noted authority on these voyages ... he provides a sympathetic treatment of life aboard ship in some of the most challenging circumstances these redoubtable sailors faced "beyond the line".' - Professor Barry Gough, maritime... -
The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by David Igler
RRP: $62.38$44.67The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global... -
Penguin Diplomacy: Brian Roberts, polar explorer, treaty maker and conservationist by June Roberts
RRP: $41.93$28.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519634Author June RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books -
Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle by Paula Byrne
RRP: $25.33$18.23The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the... -
Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Sean Kingsley 9781639364589
RRP: $29.23$18.74A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors. "For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced."-Samuel... -
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth. Scaling the Andes and journeying along the... -
Brazil That Never Was by A. J. Lees
RRP: $29.23$24.86As a boy growing up near Liverpool in the 1950s, Andrew Lees would visit the docks with his father to watch the ships from Brazil unload their exotic cargo of coffee, cotton bales, molasses, cocoa - the ships' names and goods noted down in loving detail... -
No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845 by E. C. Coleman 9781398102118
RRP: $48.75$32.23Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward - and some... -
LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC: Photographs by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition by William Speirs Bruce
RRP: $39.00$37.26LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC Photographs by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition,. William Bruce's Voyage of the 'Scotia' 1902 - 1904 Antarctic Expedition The publishers beg to draw particular note to the fact that the illustrations in this little book are all... -
Extreme Survivors: 60 epic stories of human endurance by Collins Maps
$28.92Foreword by Bear Grylls, presenter of Running Wild and The Island. The most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Compelling descriptions combined with... -
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
RRP: $37.03$25.78'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.' - Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Men Without... -
The Wreck of Annie Jane by Allan F Murray
RRP: $25.25$21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789071238Author Allan F MurrayFormat PaperbackImprint AcairPublisher Acair -
No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845 by E. C. Coleman
RRP: $25.33$16.98Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward - and some... -
The First Treasure Divers: The True Story of How Two Brothers Invented the Diving Helmet and Sought Sunken Treasure and Fame by John Bevan 9781905492169
RRP: $25.33$18.21The recorded history of the diving industry has been fundamentally corrupted over the past 150 years. The result is a complete misunderstanding of how it all began. Who invented the diving helmet? Refer to any encyclopaedia or history book and the... -
Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition by Scott Cookman 9780471404200
RRP: $29.23$26.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471404200Author Scott CookmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Secrets of Goatman's Bridge: True Tales of Chilling Paranormal Encounters at One of the Most Haunted Bridges in America by Becky Vickers 9780692185216
RRP: $31.18$26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692185216Author Becky VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm -
James Fitzjames: Commander of HMS Erebus by William Battersby 9781803994123
RRP: $29.23$22.52'A riveting detective story ... Revelation follows revelation.' - Benedict Allen, author, explorer and TV presenterJames Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his... -
Mod Lib: Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen 9780375754722
RRP: $44.85$40.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754722Author Fridtjof NansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 650g -
The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven 9780230768352
$37.91Drawing on previously unpublished letters of journals of crew members, their descendants and, astonishingly, interviews with survivors, Jennifer Niven's book is a riveting account of one of the most ambitious - and disastrous - Arctic expeditions ever... -
A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby by Joe Moshenska
RRP: $25.33$18.21SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY and THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY'A thrilling account' The Times'As heroic as Digby himself, Moshenska has defied the tyranny of genre and made his own absorbing account'... -
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston 9781538741221
RRP: $58.50$33.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
One Man's Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 Adrian Hayes 9781526751652
RRP: $25.33$18.21A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 metres above sea level on the China-Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the...