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1	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition more books like this by Caroline Alexander add to wishlist In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail aboard the "Endurance" bound for the South Atlantic. Their goal was to be the first men to cross Antarctica. Caroline Alexander tells the story of Shackleton's expedition accompanied by the photographs of Australian Frank Hurley. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Champlain's Dream more books like this by David Hackett Fischer add to wishlist A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brings to life one of the great figures in North American history, Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec 400 years ago and established a colony where respect for the native people and religious tolerance were practiced. B&w illustrations throughout. see all copies from $5.34! new only from $9.85! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer more books like this by Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell, Alexandra Shackleton (Preface by) add to wishlist In this motivational business guide, management consultants illuminate the leadership qualities of Ernest Shackleton, the Irish explorer who led a repeatedly thwarted but ultimately successful expedition to Antarctica in 1914. By applying lessons from this exploration to modern business challenges, the authors provide techniques for executives to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World more books like this by Tony Horwitz (Read by) add to wishlist The bestselling author of "Blue Latitudes" takes readers on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, "A Voyage Long and Strange" captures the wonder and drama of first contact. see all copies from $2.66! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before more books like this by Tony Horwitz add to wishlist A traveler recreates the 18th century journeys of Captain James Cook through locales such as Tahiti, New Zealand, Alaska, and Hawaii. He conveys a sense of sailor-life with extracts from the journals of Cook and those of Joseph Banks, a well-to-do botanist who, along with his retinue, accompanied Cook through the Pacific. The author and a buddy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Journals of Lewis and Clark more books like this by Bernard Augustine DeVoto add to wishlist In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank - not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
7	In the land of white death : an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic more books like this by Valerian Albanov add to wishlist This recounting of a 1912 disaster tells how a crew of a Russian ship survived on provisions for over a year and a half while frozen in the Siberian Arctic and how, almost without hope, some of the crew decided to try to make it across land. Only two survived. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Last Place on Earth more books like this by Roland Huntford add to wishlist First published in the late 1970s, this book details the events surrounding the first voyage to the South Pole. The British Naval officer Robert Falcon Scott and crew died on the return from the Pole, after discovering that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had reached the site first in 1911. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America more books like this by Gary B Nash add to wishlist For courses in Colonial and Revolutionary American History. Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this text presents an interpretive account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans during the colonial and revolutionary eras. It reveals the crucial interconnections between North America's ... see all copies* from $1.99! new only from $26.00!
10	Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer more books like this by Tim Jeal add to wishlist "A magnificent new life . . . [and] a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable and exhaustive, profiting from his access to an immense new trove of Stanley material." -- Paul Theroux, front page, "New York Times Book Review" Henry ... see all copies from $3.65! new only from $11.76! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Course of Empire more books like this by Bernard Augustine DeVoto add to wishlist Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.61! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman more books like this by Nancy Marie Brown add to wishlist Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America more books like this by Paul Schneider add to wishlist The journey of the Narvaez expedition is one of the greatest survival epics in the history of American exploration. By combining the accounts of the explorers with the most recent findings of archaeologists and academic historians, this work offers an authentic narrative to replace a legend of North American exploration. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery more books like this by Martin Dugard add to wishlist As every schoolchild knows, in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue--and he did it again in 1502. In THE LAST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS, Martin Dugard relates the story of Columbus's eventful fourth and final voyage to the New World, from 1502 to 1504, when he was still looking for a passageway to India and China and was under ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk more books like this by Jennifer Niven add to wishlist This chronicle of the aftermath of a 1913 shipwreck in Siberia tells of the struggle of 24 men, women, and children to survive in open nature and the intense rivalries that developed among them. Some of those marooned were eventually rescued after the captain left the camp and trekked across the wilderness for help. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World more books like this by David E Stannard add to wishlist For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $18.18! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Pedro's Journal: A Voyage with Christopher Columbus August 3, 1492-February 14, 1493 more books like this by Pam Conrad, Peter Koeppen (Illustrator) add to wishlist A fictional journal that tells the story of one of the young "ships boys" who sailed with Christopher Columbus. Historical facts about the historic journey are presented alongside fictional material. Illustrated with line drawings and maps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons more books like this by John W Powell add to wishlist In 1869, Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell and nine other men undertook a hazardous three-month excursion down the unmapped Colorado River. Three of them survived famine, Indian attacks, mutiny, and dangerous rapids, and Powell told their harrowing story in this 1874 account. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Exploration and empire; the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West more books like this by William H. Goetzmann add to wishlist From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise more books like this by Ian Baker, Dalai Lama (Introduction by) add to wishlist One of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery in recent memory, "The Heart of the World" is an extraordinary journey to one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on Earth--and a pilgrimage to the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist faith. see all copies from $2.59! new only from $6.20! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca more books like this by Andres Resendez add to wishlist This is the gripping story of a doomed mission to North America - and the four survivors who journeyed for a decade across the new world just discovered by Christopher Columbus. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. ... see all copies from $4.12! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Arctic Dreams more books like this by Barry Holstun Lopez add to wishlist Considered Lopez's finest book, this is part adventure tale and part meditation on the nature of exploration. Lopez writes about the aurora borealis, polar bears, killer whales, icebergs, and the nobility of the indigenous people of the Arctic. Winner of the American Book Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Voyage of the Narwhal more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist Andrea Barrett's novel is about the 1845 expedition to the Arctic that ended in starvation and possibly cannibalism. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic more books like this by Jennifer Niven add to wishlist From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The White Nile more books like this by Alan Moorehead add to wishlist The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.75! \| first editions \| SVS

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