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1	The Discoverers more books like this by Daniel J Boorstin add to wishlist In THE DISCOVERERS, historian Boorstin explores the major scientific and technical inquiries and inventions of the West and how they contributed to mankind. THE DISCOVERERS is the first of a trilogy; it is followed by THE CREATORS and THE SEEKERS. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Around the World in a Hundred Years more books like this by Jean Fritz, Anthony Bacon Venti (Illustrator) add to wishlist Biographies of ten European explorers who journeyed between the years of 1421-1522. Pencil drawings accompany the text which includes profiles of such adventurers as Christopher Columbus, Henry the Navigator, and Amerigo Vespucci. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Conquistador more books like this by S M Stirling add to wishlist In 1946, a soldier just back from the Pacific discovers a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows and a virgin America untouched by European influence in the 21st century: But the two realities soon collide. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration more books like this by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto add to wishlist Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again. Pathfinders tells the epic story of how the route-finders did it: who they were, where they came from, where they went, how they coped ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nat more books like this by Richard Hakluyt add to wishlist Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the ... see all copies from $3.43! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
6	Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator more books like this by Gianni Guadalupi, Professor Antony Shugaar (Translator) add to wishlist Italian historian Guadalupi weaves together the histories, real and imagined, that have been fostered by the equator--the 24,000 mile imaginary line that has lured adventurers as diverse as Columbus, Magellan, and Dante Alghieri. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Minus 148 Degrees more books like this by Art Davidson add to wishlist Classic tale of dramatic near-death experiences in the harshest of conditions. see all copies from $3.35! new only from $13.66! \| signed copies \| SVS
8	Explorer more books like this by Rupert Matthews add to wishlist This is a guide to the world's great explorers and the history of exploration - at sea, over land, beneath the oceans and out into space. It explains why people explored and includes sections on the Egyptians, Chinese, the exploration of the large continents and the history of map-making. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America more books like this by Mr. Peter C Mancall add to wishlist Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of Hakluyt, a trained minister who became an editor of travel accounts. "Hakluyt's Promise" ... see all copies from $3.26! new only from $3.26! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened & How It Changed the World more books like this by Marc Aronson, John W Glenn add to wishlist National Geographic has always given readers the bigger picture of our world. Now "The World Made New" shows children the bigger context of American history. Written by award-winning children's author Marc Aronson and John W. Glenn, this innovative title will lead children through the causes and consequences of the defining age of exploration. Its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.75! \| signed copies \| SVS
11 view cover	Hippolyte's Island: An Illustrated Novel more books like this by Barbara Hodgson, Chronicle Books add to wishlist From the author of The Sensualist and The Tattooed Map comes another fascinating work of illustrated fiction. The discovery of a group of lost islands on a centuries-old map sends modern-day explorer Hippolyte Webb on a quest for vanished lands. His adventures in both the South Atlantic and the New York publishing world make for another mysterious ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa more books like this by Charles M Hudson add to wishlist "This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends," writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, his extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of presentday Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Cast ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $17.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13	To the Ends of the Earth: Four Expeditions to the Arctic, the Congo, the Gobi, and Siberia more books like this by John Perkins add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $88.16! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era more books like this by Stuart B Schwartz (Editor) add to wishlist This volume brings together the work of twenty historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars who have tried to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800, the early modern era. The book is world-wide in scope - ranging from Hawaii, Australia, and China to the Americas and ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Seventy Great Journeys in History more books like this by Robin Hanbury-Tenison (Editor) add to wishlist From the migrations out of Africa by our earliest ancestors to the latest voyages into space, an incredible team of historians, travellers and explorers brings to life seventy of humanity's most remarkable journeys. With hundreds of evocative photographs, paintings, illustrations and portraits, plus specially commissioned maps, this volume is for ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $16.89! \| SVS
16 view cover	New Worlds: The Great Voyages of Discovery 1400-1600 more books like this by Ronald H Fritze add to wishlist This is a narrative history of the great voyages of discovery. The author starts his survey with a portrait of medieval Europe, its economy, its geography and the developments in naval architecture and design that made the great voyages possible. From there, he goes on to consider in detail the voyages of Henry the Navigator, Columbus, da Gama, ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $23.20! \| SVS
17 view cover	So You Want to Be an Explorer? more books like this by Judith St George, David Small (Illustrator) add to wishlist This newest installment in the series that began with the Caldecott Medal-winning "So You Want to Be President?" looks at some of the world's most renowned--and some not so well-known--explorers. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration more books like this by Dr. Peter Whitfield, Whitfield Peter add to wishlist This work provides an intellectual context of exploration. The author asks, how did explorers and their patrons understand the expanding world and their place in it? What were they really seeking, and how did they believe they could achieve it? How did they balance the known and the unknown in their minds? Historical maps are important in ... see all copies from $2.08! new only from $17.95! \| first editions
19	Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries more books like this by Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jon Leverenz (Editor), Elizabeth G Fagan (Editor) add to wishlist On the eveof the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America, Rand McNally presents a lavish treasury of the maps and charts followed by the early explorers, accompanied by a concise narrative that conveys each map's significance, detail and beauty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.87! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980 more books like this by Professor David B Abernethy add to wishlist This survey of the rise and decline of European overseas empires asks how and why these empires were formed, persisted, and eventually fell. In a discussion that encompasses European and non-European actors as well as the economic, social, cultural and political dimensions of empire, David Abernethy explains Europe's long occupation of global ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $18.49! \| first editions
21 view cover	Voyages of Discovery: Timeframe Ad 1400-1500 more books like this by Time-Life Books add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Great adventures and explorations from the earliest times to the present as told by the explorers themselves more books like this by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.53! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Globe Encompassed: The Age of European Discovery, 1500-1700 more books like this by Glenn J Ames add to wishlist Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, The Globe Encompassed combines the most recent secondary work in the field with the author's own personal archival work to present a updated synthesis of the topic. The Globe Encompassed lays out in clear narrative form a series of connected stories that simultaneously instruct and ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
24 view cover	Great Exploration Hoaxes more books like this by David Roberts, Jan Morris (Introduction by) add to wishlist Did Peary reach the North Pole? Was Admiral Byrd the first to fly over it? Did Frederick Cook actually make the first ascent of Mt. McKinley? Spanning 450 years of history, Great Exploration Hoaxes tells the spellbinding stories of ten men who pursued glory at any cost even the truth. Acclaimed author and explorer David Roberts delves deeply into ... see all copies from $4.85! new only from $11.15! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Historical Atlas of Exploration 1492-1600 more books like this by Dr. Angus Konstam add to wishlist Developed in association with the National Maritime Museum, "Historical Atlas of Exploration" shows how humankind's thirst for knowledge and increasing ability to act on ambition created an age of adventure and discovery. The period is a fascinating one, as Europeans emerged from the psychological and physical confinement of the Middle Ages into ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $16.99! \| first editions

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