Geographical discovery & exploration books

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La vie est une scène de théâtre ou chacun vient jouer sa partition avant de partir. C'est comme une scène à la belle...  Read More >>

If you are looking for something different in subject, form, and style, this is it. This is a cross between literary...  Read More >>

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In May of 1843, James Williams, John Williams, Isaac Williams, and Squire Williams decided to leave their vast 640-acre...  Read More >>

This book, Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration...  Read More >>

In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California...  Read More >>

The 2020 Commemorative Annotated Edition of Hubbard's 160-mile canoe journey through Maine.  Read More >>

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This is a story about losing everything and what it takes to rebuild a life from absolute rock bottom, not giving...  Read More >>

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From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of...  Read More >>

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From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking...  Read More >>

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In this venerable nature text, The Yosemite, the great American naturalist, John Muir, describes the Yosemite valley's...  Read More >>

A hard town for scoffings, was what the hoboes called it at that time. I know that I missed many a meal, in spite...  Read More >>

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"This book of short stories is a confession. It is also a compendium. It is a confession in the sense most of these...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1978, The Starship and the Canoe is the remarkable story of a father and son: Freeman Dyson...  Read More >>

Edge of the Map is equal parts inspiring, dramatic, and heartbreaking. One of America's greatest high altitude mountaineers,...  Read More >>

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