Overview :At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevel... Read More
Overview :The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett venture... Read More
Overview :On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect ... Read More
Overview :Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fern ndez-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenti... Read More
Overview :Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Kha... Read More
Overview :The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, ... Read More
Overview :The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographi... Read More
Overview :NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE - A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving... Read More
Overview :The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery ... Read More
Overview :"A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocea... Read More
Overview :In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail... Read More
Overview :Bartolom de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sai... Read More
Overview :After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to d... Read More
Overview :A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men ... Read More
Overview :At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and... Read More
Overview :Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle E... Read More
Overview :The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage--now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th an... Read More