Geographical discovery and exploration

This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia.

In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on.

Through its extensive use of primary source materials and invaluable contextual notes, this book offers a documented history of one of the most famous adventures in early American history: the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Focusing on ten key figures whose careers illuminate the history of the European exploration of North America, this book presents compelling first-person narratives that bring to life the challenges of historical scholarship in the academic classroom.

It's a Wonderful World is a celebration of ordinary people whose lives cross in extraordinary ways at different parts of the world.

New York Times Bestseller: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook: "e;Alternately hilarious, poignant, and insightful.

The geologist and explorer's own account of his perilous venture into one of the last unmapped portions of the continental United States.

When did Christopher Columbus begin his second voyage to the New World?

Wild Men, Wild Alaska is more than just a bookit's an entry ticket into an untamed wilderness adventure in Alaska, written by professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen.

An epic visual guide to the most intrepid explorers in historyGo on an extraordinary adventure with some of the world's greatest explorers - from Pytheas to Darwin.

Now that you've mastered the Overworld, the time has come to brave the perilous Nether and End dimensions.

Learn the art of redstone and become a master engineer with the Minecraft Guide to Redstone, and put theory into practice to construct intricate contraptions in Minecraft.

The mysterious world of Minecraft is just waiting to be explored.

An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth centuryScurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal.

The Periplus Maris Erythraei, "e;Circumnavigation of the Red Sea,"e; is the single most important source of information for ancient Rome's maritime trade in these waters (i.

It's a Wonderful World is a celebration of ordinary people whose lives cross in extraordinary ways at different parts of the world.

Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries.

Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries.

Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration.

Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration.

The true story of a colorful and momentous 16th-century voyage, and of the Black mariner whose accomplishment was almost lost to history.

The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries.

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This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

First Published in 2001.

First Published in 2001.

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community.

This new edition of the well-established Kearey and Brooks text is fully updated to reflect the important developments in geophysical methods since the production of the previous edition.

The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history.

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

This book examines how the power of the Ptolemies depended upon control of waterways, the easiest form of communication in the ancient world.

What price is a man's soul?

Alonso Abugattas is more than a fanatical hunter, fisherman, shooter, and mountain climber.

This book is entitled Memorial Stones because it is about remembering what God has done to and provided for my family as we followed His plan for our lives.

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Yorkshire, or as it is sometimes beautifully referred to, God's Own County.

Covering the adventures of coastal and ocean explorers who made key discoveries and landmark observations from northern California up the coastline to Alaska during the mid-1700s to the early 1800s, this anthology of primary source journal entries, book excerpts, maps, and drawings enables readers to "e;discover"e; the Northwest Coast for themselves.