Expeditions & Discoveries

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist 'A refreshing...

This highly-illustrated volume, by bestselling author Richard Barber, shows how medieval princes proclaimed their special status through displays of magnificence. The book is stunning, in every respect, and will be the gold standard in its subject for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071427Author Larken MerielFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

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...

Ernest 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...

Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in...

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...

A New York Times Bestseller.Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 years and grow to a massive 20 feet long...

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...

In May 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United States would attempt to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth before the end of that decade. Yet NASA did not have a specific plan for how to accomplish that goal. Over the next...

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 9781534907102Author Brien FoersterFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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)...

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...

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771602167Author Junko TabeiFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

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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

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...

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)...

'Fascinating.' Telegraph Birdie Bowers is a woman with a dead man's name. Her parents had been fascinated by Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, one of Captain Scott's companions on his ill-fated polar expedition. A hundred years after the death of Bowers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437070Author Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455540013Author Douglas PrestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803502Author Constance Victoria BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited...

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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...

Much has been written on Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton. This is the story of the Endurance expedition's other hero, Joseph Russell Stenhouse (1887-1941) who, as Captain of the SS Aurora, freed the ship from pack ice and rescued the survivors of...

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297162Author Darrell HartmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm *...

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...

Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524747374Author Andrea WulfFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1406gDimensions(mm) 311mm * 248mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492766179Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788307703Author Paul ClutterbuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers