Expeditions books

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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Author: Bill Streever
ISBN: 9780316042918
Format: Hardback
$65.97

A wide-ranging narrative adventure through the coldest places, chilliest times and frostiest experiences on Earth...  Read More >>

Captain Oates

Captain Oates

Author: Sue Limb ,  Patrick Cordingley
ISBN: 9781848840881
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World (1761-1881)

Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World (1761-1881)...

Author: Ivo Klaver (, University of Urbino.)
ISBN: 9780199568895
Format: Hardback
$324.00

Ivo Klaver discusses four major expeditions which assembled scientific data in various parts of the Arab world between...  Read More >>

Go Get a Woolly Hat: An Account of the Recovery of Kursk Submarine

Go Get a Woolly Hat: An Account of the Recovery of Kursk...

Author: Adrian Ladd
ISBN: 9781449016425
Format: Paperback
$36.93

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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution

Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the...

Author: Iain McCalman (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780393068146
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A group portrait of the three British voyagers who became fierce defenders of Darwin’s theory of evolution.  Read More >>

Charles Wilkes and the Exploration of Inland Washington Waters: Journals from the Expedition of 1841

Charles Wilkes and the Exploration of Inland Washington...

Author: Richard W. Blumenthal
ISBN: 9780786443161
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Presents maritime history in the Pacific Northwest. This book follows naval officer and explorer Charles Wilkes,...  Read More >>

With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson: Explorer, Naturalist, Artist

With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson: Explorer,...

Author: Isobel Williams
ISBN: 9780752452463
Format: Paperback
$37.99

First full biography of the Antarctic hero who accompanied Scott on his expeditions  Read More >>

I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany

I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in...

Author: Mark Greenside
ISBN: 9781416586951
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Bannock and Beans: A Cowboy's Account of the Bedaux Expedition

Bannock and Beans: A Cowboy's Account of the Bedaux...

Author: Bob White ,  Jay Sherwood
ISBN: 9780772660602
Format: Paperback
$50.03

The Bedaux Expedition, which celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2009, is one of the most unusual events in the history...  Read More >>

Shackleton of the Antarctic

Shackleton of the Antarctic

Author: T. H. Baughman ,  T. H. Baughman
ISBN: 9780803219441
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson

Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson...

Author: Peter C. Mancall
ISBN: 9780465005116
Format: Hardback
$71.15

Presents the tale of Henry Hudson's doomed final voyage in search of sea passage across the New World on its 400th...  Read More >>

Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure

Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure...

Author: Dan Parry
ISBN: 9780091928377
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Simultaneously connected and separated by television, millions of people around the world held their breath as a...  Read More >>

Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism

Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing...

Author: Stephanie Barczewski
ISBN: 9780826445629
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Covers the two famous expeditions of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition...  Read More >>

The Voyage of the Discovery

The Voyage of the Discovery

Author: Captain Robert Falcon Scott ,  Dr Beau Riffenburgh (Scott Polar Research Institute)
ISBN: 9781840221770
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Scott is best known for his doomed last expedition in 1912, but it was this earlier voyage that truly began the...  Read More >>

The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
ISBN: 9780559086533
Format: Hardback
$139.89

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The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly...

Author: David Grann
ISBN: 9781847374363
Format: Hardback
$43.96

A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the Amazon  Read More >>

Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition

Supply Party: Ludwig Becker on the Burke and Wills Expedition...

Author: Martin Edmond
ISBN: 9781921037269
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Edmond takes the reader on a physical trek and intellectual quest across outback Australia to unravel the life and...  Read More >>

K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World's Second-Highest Mountain

K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story Of Disaster...

Author: Charles Houston ,  Robert Bates
ISBN: 9781599216089
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.  Read More >>

Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland

Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New...

Author: New Netherland Institute
ISBN: 9780962536854
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Sheds light on the culture, society, and legacy of the New Netherland colony.  Read More >>

Black Smoke: A Woman's Journey of Healing, Wild Love, and Transformation in the Amazon

Black Smoke: A Woman's Journey of Healing, Wild Love,...

Author: Margaret De Wys
ISBN: 9781402748837
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Captures one woman's physical, emotional and 'holy voyage' through a world that differs vastly from our own. This...  Read More >>

Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818-1860

Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration...

Author: Janice Cavell
ISBN: 9780802092809
Format: Hardback
$163.68

Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell recaptures and examines the experience...  Read More >>

My Life as an Explorer

My Life as an Explorer

Author: Captain Roald Amundsen ,  E. C. Coleman
ISBN: 9781848680593
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The true story of the first man to reach the South Pole. The first new edition of Amundsen's work in English since...  Read More >>

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