Expeditions & Discoveries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800747265Author Christine JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Presenting a study of the Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton as well as their most heroic expeditions, the author looks in detail at just how and why their individual reputations have evolved over the course of the last century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922539335Author Bill MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241015Author Adam ShoaltsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451659177Author Rinker BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984344857Author Jean-Philippe SouleFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Native Planet AdventuresPublisher Native Planet AdventuresWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845255Author Mark CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see...

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A new and fascinating perspective on the earliest phases of European exploration across the Atlantic Ocean The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything...

At the age of 57, Peter Keating set out to sail, single-handed, across the Atlantic. It was a lifelong dream of a lifelong sailor and though it was to be a solo journey, his waking and sleeping hours were spent in the 'company' of his memories and...

Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic account and investigation. In July 1916, a time when World War I loomed over...

Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the Great Southern Ocean in 1773, mankind has sought to push back the boundaries of Antarctic exploration. The first expeditions tried simply to chart Antarctica's coastline, but then the Sixth International...

"Unduanted Courage" is the story of a heroic and legendary man, and the saga of a great nation creating itself. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson chose Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead the first government-backed exploration of the vast and...

Curious to find out what it means to be an Anglo-Indian? Join Andrea Malam BEM as she shares the story of her journey from Bombay to London, and the search for her ancestry and identity. Along with her contributors, Andrea reveals the...

At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland.Ambitious and free-thinking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062964120Author Jonathan FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922680Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956400Author Alan MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book is the first to combine all three young men's experiences of the Amazon, drawing heavily on their own letters and books...

As any historian will testify, a nineteenth-century woman's place was very much at home. Or was it? For a lucky (and plucky) few, who had a little determination, and the ability to withstand lice infestations, climbing mountains in corsets, rascally...

This new edition of the well-established Kearey and Brooks text is fully updated to reflect the important developments in geophysical methods since the production of the previous edition. The broad scope of previous editions is maintained, with even...

"These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the interrupted...

This is a primary source collection of narratives about travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century. The authors represent multiple nationalities, including Spanish, Huguenot, French, Italian, and...

The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalised generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527257733Author Emma Louise TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Emma Louise TullyPublisher Emma Louise Tully

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679783619Author Valerian AlbanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771641739Author Owen BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Greystone BooksPublisher Greystone BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518035Author Philip SaumarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518035Author Philip SaumarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

Half a century has passed since arguably the greatest feat of the twentieth century: when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11: The Moon Landing In Real Time brings the mission back to life as never before in a thrilling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645830382Author Paul Blake SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Foundations Book PublishingPublisher Foundations Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780938294986Author Tim R SwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Inner Light - Global CommunicationsPublisher Inner Light - Global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241060Author Adam ShoaltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so...

The Age of Discovery was a time of exploration and developing new ideas, when Europeans first travelled across the seas to other lands. In his warm and expressive style, Charles Kovacs tells stories of key European historical figures, from the Crusades...