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1	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex more books like this by Nathaniel Philbrick add to wishlist The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century which was the inspiration for Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick". The author uses a hitherto unknown diary of one of the survivors discovered in an attic in Connecticut in spring 1998 to tell the tale. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	1421: The Year China Discovered America more books like this by Gavin Menzies add to wishlist Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships, whose crews actually charted America 70 years before Columbus. Four 8-page color inserts. 37 maps & diagrams. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	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
4	The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon more books like this by David Grann add to wishlist After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed "New Yorker" writer Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? see all copies from $10.00! new only from $14.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America more books like this by Tony Horwitz 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, this work captures the wonder and drama of first contact. see all copies from $2.51! new only from $6.51! \| first editions \| SVS
6	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
7	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
8	Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage more books like this by Alfred Lansing add to wishlist Following two successful expeditions to the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) led his crew to the region in order to lead a transantarctic trek in the summer of 1914. This book focuses on the several months of hardship followed by the destruction of their ship "Endurance". Diaries and interviews with the crew assist the author in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey more books like this by Candice Millard add to wishlist In a powerful new narrative history, former "National Geographic" writer and editor Millard traces the bold 1914 expedition to chart the Amazon's treacherous River of Doubt, and casts new light on the expedition's extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt. High school & older. see all copies from $3.89! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone more books like this by Martin Dugard add to wishlist David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer, was a frequent visitor to the African interior during the 19th century, and one of its most exciting and prolific chroniclers. So his disappearance in the late 1860s while questing for the Nile's source created an immediate uproar. The journey to get the scoop of the century fell to Henry David Stanley, ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
11 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
12 view cover	Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt more books like this by Nina Burleigh add to wishlist The author of "The Stranger and the Statesman" reveals the true story of the birth of Egyptology, witnessed through the experiences of Napoleon and his men who undertook the world's first archaeological dig in Egypt. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.99! \| 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	Voyage of the Beagle more books like this by Professor Charles Darwin add to wishlist Inviting in its lavish detail, this is Darwin's fascinating account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the now famous Galapagos Archipelago. One of the most important voyages of the 19th century, this is where Darwin made the ... 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	The Jamestown Project more books like this by Karen Ordahl Kupperman add to wishlist Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had travelled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown, migrants, merchants, and soldiers who had also sailed to the distant shores of the Ottoman ... see all copies from $6.53! new only from $12.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery more books like this by Dayton Duncan (Illustrator), Ken Burns add to wishlist They called themselves the Corps of Discovery, yet they would fail to discover the primary object of their mission: the Northwest Passage, a mythical all-river route through the mountains. Instead their real discovery would be the land itself--and the promises it held. This companion volume to Ken Burns' latest PBS film, airing in the fall, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 more books like this by Nathaniel Philbrick add to wishlist In this maritime history, Philbrick recreates the ambitious scientific excursion of 1838--the U.S. Exploring Expedition--whose mission was to chart the Pacific and collect samples of life forms. Highly successful in scientific terms, it became controversial because of the loss of ships and men, and resulted in a court-martial. Though almost ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Worst Journey in the World more books like this by Apsley Cherry-Garrard add to wishlist Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the South Pole, recounts the unforgettable journey across forbidding, inhospitable terrain. He was also a member of the search party that ultimately discovered Scott's frozen body along with his last notebook entries. With an introduction by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.57! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	How I Found Livingstone more books like this by Henry M. Stanley add to wishlist An extraordinary adventure became legendary with Henry Stanley's description of his search for David Livingstone, a missionary-explorer in Black Africa during the Victorian Era. Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was an uncommon man. Orphaned as a child, he was raised at an English institution, which he fled to go to United States. Here he ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $4.15! \| SVS
21 view cover	Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas more books like this by Peter Freuchen, David Loth add to wishlist Discover the great mysteries of the sea with one of the most famous explorers of our time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	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
23 view cover	The Travels Marco Polo more books like this by Marco Polo, Ronald E Latham (Translator) add to wishlist Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery: An Interactive History with Removable Artifacts more books like this by Rod Gragg add to wishlist This interactive history with removable artifacts contains 19 chapters that detail the Lewis and Clark expedition chronologically with original documents, diary entries, letters, and maps. see all copies from $2.29! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose, Sam Abell (Photographer) add to wishlist Along with National Geographic photographer Sam Abell, historian Ambrose retraces the journeys by 19th-century explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke that helped to open up the West. Includes reproductions of maps, drawings, and journal entries from the period, as well as Ambrose's reflections on the places and how they have changed. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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