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Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown.

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This book is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland.

European colonization of America occurred as a result of the bravery and discoveries of great navigators, visionaries and adventurers.

"e;Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard"e; is a journal describing the adventures of a company of 70 men, who left St.

To these days, the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of the world have never been mistaken when they have said: "e;America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa"e;.

This book represents an attempt to bring into one account the story of European expansion in North America down to 1783.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.

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Zane Grey visits what he considers to be "e;probably the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in the world,"e; and "e;also Monument Valley, and the mysterious and labyrinthine Canyon Segi with its great prehistoric cliff-dwellings.

James Joseph Walsh, M.

John Wesley Powell was a U.

In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scotts expedition to Antarctica.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore, wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in the opening chapters of his now classic exploration narrative, The Worst Journey in the World.

Death Valley was one place that could never be popular with men.

This forms the third and concluding volume of Verne's Celebrated Travels an Travellers.

Jules Verne, in this chief of his works, has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventure of which we have any written record-to give the history, "e;from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley,"e; of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most exciting episodes in the history of human enterprise.

Jules Verne has invented so many tales of adventure that he is quite at home when he comes to chronicle the wonderful feats of exploration which testify that truth is stranger than fiction.

"e;We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders.

"This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country.

Land's writing is the story of fourteen years of her life, taking the reader through a time line direct from God.

Adventure and excitement-this describes Andy Green.

Magallanes, Legazpi, Balmis.

What price is a man's soul?

While this is not a self-help book, some may find a few of the vignettes within the pages here as helpful if you have an open mind and consider the consequences of ignoring the common-sense rules that guide your personal universe.

The Plaisted Polar Expedition of 1968 was the first indisputable attainment of the North Pole over the Arctic Ocean ice surface from a point of land.