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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 $5.00! new only from $10.63! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Polar Shift more books like this by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos add to wishlist 60 years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger a polar shift, but then his work was lost, or so it was thought. Now the leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use the work to give the world a jolt, then reverse the shift back again. The only problem is, it cannot be reversed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	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
5	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
6	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
7	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 $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Lost City more books like this by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos add to wishlist This thriller set on the high seas is the fifth in the NUMA Files series. A life-extending chemical found deep in the ocean, a corpse frozen in a glacier, and various murders and disappearances are linked to the sinister plottings of a family of arms dealers. Once again, the fate of the world is in the hands of Kurt Austin, head of the National ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Pacific Vortex! more books like this by Clive Cussler add to wishlist When an American sea vessel loaded with nuclear weapons disappears in the suspicious area of the ocean known as the "Pacific Vortex," Dirk Pitt sets out to uncover the real plot. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe more books like this by Robin Kerrod add to wishlist Dramatic images never before published in a single volume. Stargazers will be astonished to see in color pictures what were once fuzzy photographs. These dramatic, unforgettable images will bring into sharp focus how the Universe is unfolding in new and astonishing ways. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.13! \| SVS
11 view cover	George's Secret Key to the Universe more books like this by Stephen & Lucy Hawking add to wishlist In his first book for children, the worlds preeminent theoretical physicist and author of "A Brief History of Time" teams with his daughter for a tale of a boy who befriends a computer that helps him to travel to other planets and a black hole. Includes four 8-page full-color inserts of scientific photos. Illustrations. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $9.06! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	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
13 view cover	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
14 view cover	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 $34.00!
15 view cover	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 $3.56! new only from $11.76! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	White Death more books like this by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos add to wishlist Following a harrowing sea rescue, Kurt Austin and his team investigate the Oceanus Corporation, ostensibly a global fish-farming concern, but in reality an evil multinational with designs on unauthorized genetic resequencing and, naturally, world domination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	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
18 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
19 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
20 view cover	The Case for Mars more books like this by Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner add to wishlist In this provocative new vision of the Red Planet, the author explains not only the means to travel to Mars, but how to settle on the surface--and why doing so is vital to our physical and cultural survival. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 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
22 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
23 view cover	Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space more books like this by Carl Sagan (Read by) add to wishlist As we complete the preliminary reconnaissance of our neighborhood in space, we need a long-term over-arching vision of the human future. In this new title by "Cosmos" author Carl Sagan, he reveals how science has altered our perception of who we are and where we stand--and challenges us to weigh what we will do with that knowledge in the future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 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
25 view cover	Titanic: The Last Great Images more books like this by Dr. Robert Ballard, Ian Coutts add to wishlist Over seventy years after the great ocean liner sank, marine geologist Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic 12,500 feet beneath the surface of the icy North Atlantic. Now Ballard presents the world with an opportunity to live the story of the famous ship through his amazing last great images, before Titanics remains are gone forever. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.38! \| signed copies \| SVS

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