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 :Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover North America, only four returned. Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1528-1536 expedition... 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 :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 :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 :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 :This is your guide into the mysterious world of the Adena Hopewell mound builders, 1000 B.C.-500 A.D. 222 mound and earthworks sites have be... 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 :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
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