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 The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian DetectiveBest Price: $15.97 If you enjoy detective novels and also have an interest in sociology and literary history, this... |  A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New WorldBest Price: $12.90 I heard Mr. Horwitz speak a few years ago. He mentioned that he was working on a book about the... |  The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyBest Price: $7.99 This is a magnificently written book about a true American hero. This is not a book about a... |  Big Book of BreastsBest Price: $35.95 I was hoping for all pictures, there are a lot of words. I would have liked it to be just... |  Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeBest Price: $2.93 An author such as Tony Horwitz is a rare find. After reading his latest release (as of this... |
 A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de VacaBest Price: $15.28 The author does a good job of setting the context for Cabeza de Vaca's adventure. I found the... |  The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic ExpeditionBest Price: $5.11 Caroline Alexander's work of non-fiction The Endurance is a wonderful read, effectively... |  Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition)Best Price: $5.99 Read this as a first edition hardback---my Amazon reviewing is a little behind, to say the... |  The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.45 I got this book to read while I was rafting the Grand Canyon. It was well worth it. John Wesley... |  Apollo 13Best Price: $2.24 Apollo 13 tells the story of the famous mission that told the world, that it "had a... |
 The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)Best Price: $24.98 Everyone knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, seeking a new... |  The Last of the Bush Pilots: In the Remote Wilderness of Rugged Alaska, a Fearless Breed of Men Cross the Last FrontierBest Price: $20.95 This is the best book ever written about Alaskan bush pilots. Helmericks has been a pilot in... |  The Travels of Marco PoloBest Price: $7.39 Marco Polo purportedly spent 17 years travelling to the courts of Kublai Khan and, as an... |  In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian ArcticBest Price: $6.89 Talk about an incredibly survival journey, this is it. These guys were very resourceful and... |  Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European CapitalismBest Price: $6.75 This is a short book by a black author. He focuses on the Middle Passage or the slave trade and... |
 The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the AmazonBest Price: $3.97 "The Mapmaker's Wife" by Robert Whitaker lives up to its intriguing subtitle, "A... |  The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of ColumbusBest Price: $17.50 The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of... |  The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration)Best Price: $7.74 Stellar story that was painstakenly researched. This is the kind of book that inspires one to... |  The White NileBest Price: $1.40 A good book, written almost 50 years ago (at a time when many African countries were gaining... |  Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American SouthwestBest Price: $13.23 I bought this book to give to a friend who loves the Southwest and its history. I opened it one... |
| In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic Best Price: $6.90 Talk about an incredibly survival journey, this is it. These guys were very resourceful and... |  Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid WorldBest Price: $8.07 Good book, well written, interesting facts and also for the non diver a good read. |  Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of EgyptBest Price: $5.74 Ms. Burleigh's Mirage is an excellent account of the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon's army, and... |  South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance (The Explorers Club Classic)Best Price: $12.72 SOUTH: THE LAST ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Here is a list of equipment that Sir Ernest Shackleton... |  The Blue NileBest Price: $6.98 The first time I read the book in 1983 and as I got a copy for a friend I reread it now. As good... |
 Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950Best Price: $25.09 "In 1898, Fanny Bullock Workman launched her assault on the Himalayas. Hanging from the... |  From A Watery Grave: The Discovery And Excavation Of La Salle's Shipwreck, La BelleBest Price: $16.47 As I say, this is a job well done. The story of the discovery and excavation of La Belle is... |  Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever WrittenBest Price: $7.24 I have read Endurance (about Shakelon's trip) and been to Antarctica in the last few years. The... |  The Course of EmpireBest Price: $1.49 This is a magisterial history of the exploration of the west by an icon of western histiography.... |  Endurance: An Epic of Polar AdventureBest Price: $4.74 Endurance: An Epic of Polar AdventureI wanted to know something new, beyond the shackleton's... |
 Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery: An Interactive History with Removable Artifacts (Lewis & Clark Expedition)Best Price: $13.00 Much has been written, let it simply be said this is the type of book you can pick up for ten... |  The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.59 I wanted to like this book. I really did. When I saw it online, I thought that it looked... |  Atlas of ExplorationBest Price: $33.70 Humans have always been explorers. Countless millennia ago our distant ancestors were traversing... |  Ice Master, The: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the KarlukBest Price: $2.47 This is one of the most gripping stories I have ever read. Jennifer Niven has done an... |  Farthest North (Modern Library Exploration)Best Price: $17.06 If you like adventure, this one is for you. This one is in the same genre as Shackleton's... |
 Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North AmericaBest Price: $8.88 Schneider's account of this indeed-brutal journey describes the misadventures of a group of... |  Ten Discoveries That Rewrote HistoryBest Price: $4.98 To read this book is to take journeys where few people go. And, they are journeys to some of... |  The Medieval Expansion of Europe (Clarendon Paperbacks)Best Price: $34.11 This book covers the period from 11th to 15th century. It offers a very good and profound... |  Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James CookBest Price: $12.44 Fast-moving and fascinating account of Captain Cook's three around-the-world voyages,... |  Lewis & Clark: Voyage of DiscoveryBest Price: $13.51 This was so interesting and beautifully filmed. I learned alot from it. Jeri Hartman |
 Journals: Scott's Last Expedition (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $3.57 In January 1912, Britain's Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had... |  Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin ExpeditionBest Price: $11.28 God this book was amazing. It took me months to read because it was so dense with information... |  The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and DiscoveryBest Price: $5.14 I loved this book, finishing it in a few days. Not only do you get a sense of Columbus, but... |  Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory and IrvineBest Price: $15.46 I had never heard of Mallory or Irvine until the day the news mentioned Mallory was found. All... |  Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for AmericaBest Price: $10.35 I've read a number of books on the exploration of the New World over the years. This is one of... |
| Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America Best Price: $3.98 Excellent book, interesting premise -- 16th century Spaniards lost in the New World. Covers... |  Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map (Adrenaline)Best Price: $3.33 EXPLORE adds 18 well-selected tales of adventure to the Adrenaline series. They blend of humor,... | The Course of Empire Best Price: $3.49 This is a magisterial history of the exploration of the west by an icon of western histiography.... |  Vikings : The North Atlantic SagaBest Price: $20.34 This sumptuous and lavishly illustrated volume of 432 large pages, was published by the... |  Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of AntarcticaBest Price: $8.99 Anyone approaching this book as a sociological critique of human mores in an extreme environment... |
 South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $3.81 It is tough to get through this book. Only the first half is about Shakleton's expedition. The... | From A Watery Grave: The Discovery And Excavation Of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle Best Price: $18.21 As I say, this is a job well done. The story of the discovery and excavation of La Belle is... | |||
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