Geographical discovery and exploration

Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating long-distance walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' TELEGRAPH'This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you're reading about a dream or a nightmare.

Haben Sie schon einmal versucht, sich IHRE EIGENE Zukunft vorzustellen?

Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous, grisly businesstwenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale, falling out of a moving train, decapitation due to a hanging gone wrong, life on the lam, horse thievery, illegal alcohol trade, and more.

The newspaper advertisement for volunteers to accompany Ernest Shackleton on his planned traverse of Antarctica in 1914 was frank in its offering.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh.

A survivors true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush.

This in-depth collection, unchanged since the 1940s, tells of the most legendary heroes and villains of the Old West.

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California.

Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet.

This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure,"e; Fine writes.

For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet.

This richly illustrated book takes a different angle on Robert E.

'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland.

+ Bücher, die Kinder gerne lesen wollen + Beliebtes Thema: Weltraum + Ausgewogenes Text-Bild-Verhältnis + Große Schrift + Kurze Kapitel + Geeignet zum ersten Selberlesen + Hochwertiges Hardcover + Mit vielen farbigen Illustrationen + Das Original + Bewährte Qualität + Seit Jahrzehnten Marktführer + Mit Pädagogen entwickelt + Von Lehrkräften empfohlen +Kurz nach dem Start stellt Astronaut Marc fest, dass ein Meteorit auf die Rakete zurast.

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

Some of the maps in this title are best viewed on a tablet device.

The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history.

Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

Diario de la navegación que va a hacer don Basilio Villarino, segundo piloto de la Real Armada, con las dos embarcaciones de su mando, el bergantín Nuestra Señora de Carmen y Ánimas, y la chalupa San Francisco de Asís, desde el Río Negro, a reconocer la costa, la Bahía de Todos los Santos, Islas del Buen Suceso y demás adyacentes, buscar el desagüe del río Colorado, y penetrar su entrada, de orden del Comisario Superintendente de estos establecimientos, el señor don Francisco de Viedma.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things?

The newspaper advertisement for volunteers to accompany Ernest Shackleton on his planned traverse of Antarctica in 1914 was frank in its offering.

A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt.

Hunt for Gold: Sunken Galleons in the New World is the engaging tale of the legendary oceanic explorers Bob ';Frogfoot' Weller and his wife Margaret.

Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.

An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras.

Livingstone's Missionary Tales had already been a bestseller.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Geschichte der Sintflut und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Geheimnisse hinter diesem zeitlosen Mythos.

William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard.

La ruta del sastrugi relata el último gran evento de la exploración antártica del siglo XX realizado por argentinos.

Diario de la navegación que va a hacer don Basilio Villarino, segundo piloto de la Real Armada, con las dos embarcaciones de su mando, el bergantín Nuestra Señora de Carmen y Ánimas, y la chalupa San Francisco de Asís, desde el Río Negro, a reconocer la costa, la Bahía de Todos los Santos, Islas del Buen Suceso y demás adyacentes, buscar el desagüe del río Colorado, y penetrar su entrada, de orden del Comisario Superintendente de estos establecimientos, el señor don Francisco de Viedma.

La joven arqueóloga peruana Esperanza Gracia, famosa por sus investigaciones y hallazgos en lugares tan misteriosos como la Isla de Pascua y la ciudad perdida de Paititi, en las selvas del Perú, había sido solicitada para colaborar en una investigación en México por su fama y prestigio.

Shackelton inició su experiencia antártica como tercer oficial de Scott en la «Expedición Discovery»; lideró la «Expedición Nimrod», entre cuyos logros estuvo llegar al punto más meridional jamás pisado por el hombre, quedando a tan sólo 180 km del Polo Sur; y alcanzó definitivamente su fama con la malograda aventura transantártica de la «Expedición Endurance».

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.

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;.

The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker - The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903.

Star Born Andre Norton - The saga begun in The Stars Are Ours!

Tarzan At The Earth's Core Edgar Rice Burroughs - Continuing the saga of Pellucidar, the empire located in the Earth's hollow center, Tarzan at the Earth's Core is the fourth work in this classic series.

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

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.

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.

Auf der Fram ins Packeis: Sein größter Traum geht nicht in Erfüllung: 1893 bricht der Norweger und spätere Friedensnobelpreisträger Fridtjof Nansen mit einem eigens dafür gebauten Schiff zur Eroberung des Nordpols auf und kehrt drei Jahre später in die Heimat zurück, ohne den Nordpol je betreten zu haben.

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Während Columbus bis zu seinem Tod wahrscheinlich davon ausgeht, er habe den Seeweg nach Asien gefunden, ist Amerigo Vespucci der richtigen Überzeugung, dass es sich bei den neu entdeckten Küstenlandschaften um einen eigenen Kontinent handeln müsse.

Alexander von Humboldt ist jedermann als einer der größten deutschen Forschungsreisenden und Geographen ein Begriff.

Das komplette Reisehandbuch, das alle wesentlichen Informationen über Outdoor-Aktivitäten einschließlich Survival-Tipps ausführlich und übersichtlich darstellt:- Ausrüstung von Bekleidung über Rucksack, Schlafsack und Zelt bis zu Kochequipment und sonstigem Zubehör.

+ Bücher, die Kinder gerne lesen wollen + Beliebtes Thema: Weltraum + Ausgewogenes Text-Bild-Verhältnis + Große Schrift + Kurze Kapitel + Geeignet zum ersten Selberlesen + Hochwertiges Hardcover + Mit vielen farbigen Illustrationen + Das Original + Bewährte Qualität + Seit Jahrzehnten Marktführer + Mit Pädagogen entwickelt + Von Lehrkräften empfohlen +Kurz nach dem Start stellt Astronaut Marc fest, dass ein Meteorit auf die Rakete zurast.