Geographical discovery and exploration

Keen to learn but short on time?

Nestled on the abandoned benches of New York City and forged in the fires of service unto others, American Dreaming opens to secret conversations between God and a young man.

Keen to learn but short on time?

It is true that everyone has his or her own story of life to tell, but some have far more fascinating stories than others.

Keen to learn but short on time?

'A masterpiece.

Extrait : "En relisant dernièrement diverses notes de voyage, je fus frappé par le caractère d'actualité tout particulier que présente la partie qui a trait à une excursion de plusieurs mois que je fis il y a quelque temps dans l'intérieur de la Chine et, par le conseil de plusieurs amis, je me suis décidé à en livrer le récit à l'impression.

I was born in 1939 in Alton, Illinois.

Extrait : "Ninette et Jean rêvent de voyages : ils regardent de tous leurs yeux les locomotives, et, au bord de la mer, ils montent sur les bateaux en pensant à l'oncle Malo, qui fait le TOUR DU MONDE.

Extrait : "M'y voilà donc, dans ce canton lointain que je m'étais fixé comme but !

Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.

'Utterly extraordinary .

Extrait : "Pour s'emparer de Malte et de l'Egypte, il faudrait de vingt à vingt-cinq mille hommes d'infanterie, et de deux à trois mille hommes de cavalerie sans chevaux.

Extrait : "Autrefois tous les bâtiments qui se rendaient à Calcutta, faisaient escale à Pointe de Galles, et remontaient le golfe du Bengale en s'arrêtant à Pondichéry et à Madras.

Extrait : "La date du départ fixée, nos préparatifs furent très vite faits, et après avoir embrassé parents et amis, vers la fin de mars de l'année dernière, nous gagnions la cité Phocéenne, alors toute angoissée par la grève qui faillit même compromettre notre départ, comme il avait dû en faire ajourner plus d'un.

Extrait : "Il y a deux hommes en Napoléon : le souverain et le capitaine.

Extrait : "La Maladetta est le mont Blanc des Pyrénées.

This is the adventure story of the year -- how Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago.

Extrait : "Diverses circonstances concoururent à me donner de très bonne heure ce qu'on appelle « le goût de la mer ».

A poet's hiking vacation turns deadly in soaring Mojave heat; his true survival story leaves you with chills.

Extrait : "Pourquoi, me dit Barbe, vous êtes-vous mis à étudier l'Ardèche d'une manière aussi exclusive que passionnée ?

From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.

This frontier classic is one of the best books written about the worlds greatest cattle trail, the Chisholm Trail, a trail that was approximately eight hundred miles long, running from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas.

En agosto de 1897, el joven comandante belga Adrien de Gerlache partió para una expedición de tres años a bordo del barco Bélgica con sueños de gloria.

Leadership Re-VisionedCast a vision, set a strategy, rally the troops, and take the hill-you don't need another book to rehash the well-worn principles of modern leadership.

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile.

Antarctica fools you into thinking you are safe, that appearances are reality.

Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations?

This is an extraordinary and little-known story of emigration from Scotland.

A space enthusiast goes inside mission control with a motley crew of rocket scientists in this ';fascinating journey of discovery peppered with humor' (Publishers Weekly).

From an early age, Brice H.

Island Dreams is a true story of thewonders of British Columbias northern Gulf Islands.

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.

In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers.

As senior surgeon on board Discovery, Dr.

Lure of the Trade Winds: Two Women Sailing the Pacific Ocean transports readers to a place where few have gone before: aboard a thirty-four-foot boat, cruising the Pacific Ocean.

As a seven-year-old boy, Jon Coile dreamed of spending the summer sailing Author of Evolution of an Xmas Letter the Atlantic.

Thrill of the Rookie chronicles the life of Osaze Ehigiator, beginning in Nigeria, a nation plagued with corruption and incessant coup, and how the author escaped to the USA.

A fascinating account of his extraordinary life and timesRecord of naval history in the first half of the 19th century.

In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific.

A journey both historical and contemporary among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar.