Geographical discovery and exploration

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.

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?

Survival Tips for Living the Adventurous Life contains true-life accounts of an individual growing up through adventure after adventure, shortly after birth to retirement age.

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.

The story of the tree snails of the Pacific Islands spans 250 years of the history of biology as a science.

For readers who relish the image of clinging to a sinking makeshift raft while fighting off sword-wielding and delirious mutineers wrenching the last cask of water from a sailor's sun-scorched hands (while sharks circle in famished anticipation), Shipwrecked!

The Alaska Homesteader's Handbook is a remarkable compilation of practical information for living in one of the most impractical and inhostpitable landscapes in the United States.

RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys fleet, sank in the great St.

Wordie's career as both an explorer and academic geologist opened up his participation in Shackleton's epic Endurance expedition of 1914-1916, where he proved one of the most resilient of those stranded in appalling conditions on Elephant Island.

The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago.

For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover.

Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers.

Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today.

Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers.

The third in Sven Hedin's Central Asia trilogy, The Wandering Lake is arguably his most famous work and a rare account of a now-vanished world.

For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover.

Captain James Cook was the greatest explorer of his age, perhaps of any age.

David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire; yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own lifetime and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal.

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War.

The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico.

In the late 1850s many of the most striking places in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana had not yet been surveyed by any government expedition.

Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de Leon vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru.