An award'winning environmental historian explores American history through wrenching, tragic, and sometimes humorous stories of getting lost The human species has a propensity for getting lost.
INSIDE THE RAINBOW by Sandy Sinclair, Alaskan bush teacherNot just memoirs of an ol teacher but the author deals with how the events of the past may be connected to our current life.
In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West.
In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois.
Un diplomate moldave, Nicolas Milescu, deja presente a Louis XIV et a d'autres princes d'Europe, est envoye par le tsar de toutes les Russies en Chine, porteur d'un message d'amitie aupres de l'empereur Kang Xi.
From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage,Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and fishing in Alaska.
Without discrediting the expedition's success or Admiral Richard Byrd's leadership, this book makes clear for the first time that the admiral was not the saintly hero he and the press depicted.
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.
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.
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.
Grail Quests often begin withwhat seems like normal travel adventures, but then suddenly turn into divinesynchronistic events that makes one feel as though theyre being guided by the Universe.
With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West-through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time.
This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767-1820, for the first time publishing this globally scattered material in one place, thereby revolutionizing its availability and understanding of the activities of a key figure who helped organize and publish a series of missions to penetrate the African interior, mainly from West Africa and by crossing the Sahara from Cairo and Tripoli.
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.
Geology and Landscape Evolution: General Principles Applied to the United States, Second Edition, is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and applications within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology and climatology of the United States.
This book, narrating the discovery of an ancient lead anchor stock embossed with the names of the Egyptian gods Isis and Sarapi(s) in the seabed off Salina Bay on a Sunday morning in April 2005, is also the story of the search for the real site of St Paul's shipwreck in Malta.
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».
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;.
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.
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.
