“Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Calendar, Kirjastus: Rizzoli Universe, ISBN-13: 9780789348678)
Sail through twelve months with Jack and Rose aboard the iconic vessel with the official Titanic 2026 Wall Calendar based on the Academy Award–winning cult classic. Let your heart go on as the official Titanic 2026 Wall Calen...Loe edasi...
Flying is one thing . . . but landing in one piece is another thing altogether.Every Rocketman is destined to crash. But only some are willing to fly again.Ever since he was a kid, Dan Schlund was showman...Loe edasi...
This features Antarctic exploration after the heroic years of Scott, Shackleton and Mawsom but before the technological age. It interweaves a personal story of discovery in Antarctica in the ’60s with the lives and deaths of those who were tragically...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819810963)
Chinese Explored Asia Long Before the Europeans: An Ancient World Map Tells All is the fruit of the authors research into the history of exploration prior to the European Age of Discovery. This book analyses thoroughly the Asian regions of an impor...Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of geography’s five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombus’s second voyage....Loe edasi...
Jack Baronett (1829–1906) was an important figure in the history of Yellowstone National Park. In his early life he traveled the world, prospecting and mining in Australia, Africa, China, and Alaska. He traveled to the Yellowstone region in 1864—eigh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: James Currey, ISBN-13: 9781847014061)
A detailed overview of East African diplomacy at the end of pre-colonial era, which provides a corrective to the commonly held view that African diplomats were inexperienced, naïve and parochial....Loe edasi...
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of...Loe edasi...
A “radical retelling” (Financial Times) of the history of science—a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from across the globe, far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.When we think about the origins...Loe edasi...
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. In Four Points of the Compass, Jerry Brotton takes the reader on a journe...Loe edasi...
“As sensitive and touching as it is urgent . . . ( Wild Life is) a poignant exploration of the natural world.” –O, The Oprah Magazine“Wild Life is the bushwacking, honest, and inspiring memoir I wish I...Loe edasi...
Graphic memoir that brings together adventure, community, conservation, and personal growth from an award-winning artist and storyteller...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: AU Press, ISBN-13: 9781771994378)
Uses first-hand accounts to better understand the experience of those who traveled the popular overland trek from Turkey to India in the 1960s and 70s.Safarnameh—an Urdu word meaning “an account of a journey”—is the story of Tre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816555437)
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contex...Loe edasi...
