Recalling some of the most memorable escapades ever conducted in the Canadian Arctic with bush planes, Flying to Extremes takes place in the late ?60s and early ?70s from a base at Yellowknife, in the heart of the Northwest Territories. Beyond recoun...Loe edasi...
Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration. What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve—and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyage...Loe edasi...
As a child Jean-François Champollion had but one fervent wish—to travel to Egypt and solve the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphs. Finally, a brief lull in the Mediterranean war against the Ottoman Sultan offered his expedition a window of a few...Loe edasi...
A collection of the greatest political maps in history and how these images have an unmatched power to influence our thinking—and our world. In a world where Google Maps has largely taken over uti...Loe edasi...
“This is the last big Shackleton event” – New York TimesIn June 2024, John Geiger led an international team that discovered the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship, Quest, off the coast of Labrador where it struck ice and san...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9781779401755)
A story of exploration, family ties, and how the territorial interests of a large corporation enabled scientific study of the natural world, Mapmaker is the first biography of Philip Turnor, the surveyor who traversed and mapped vast areas of northe...Loe edasi...
A critical reassessment of world-shaping Portuguese voyages of discovery that places these quests in historical context. The lasting impact of historic Portuguese voyages of discovery is unquestionable. The slave trade, the diaspora...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803998282)
In 1999, my expedition found George Mallory’s body on Mount Everest. The intense public interest in his tragic fate obscured the other actors in that dramatic story. The pioneers who attempted the first climbs in 1922 and 1924 knew nothin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, 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...
When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from historys great explorers to record its wonders. From Virginia and Florida to Brazil, his engravings captivated the European imagination with freshly discovered landscapes, cust...Loe edasi...
In the epic tradition of Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage, This Vast Enterprise offers a bold new take on the Lewis and Clark expedition, humanizing forgotten figures and shattering long-held myths about one of the most beloved ep...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Brandeis University Press, ISBN-13: 9781684583027)
An inspiring story of adventure and endurance in a quest to rediscover the passions of youth. At the end of 2019, Tom French retired from a four-decade career in business, determined to return to interests that had defined his youth...Loe edasi...
By the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior—“El Norte Mi...Loe edasi...
Tag along with clever guide John OConnor as he leads us on a gonzo journey through the history of psychedelics, the Amazon rainforest, and into the cosmic dimensions of our own minds. This will be the trip of a lifetime....Loe edasi...
After losing her husband, a transformational 2650-mile hike helps the author find wholeness. Body and Grace follows this authors journey over a period of 10 years to completion of the Pacific Crest Trail. The reader will travel through snowfields, d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Washington State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780874224405)
A professional geologist visited route locations and scrutinized expedition journals and complex academic geological reports to offer a detailed and accessible presentation of Lewis and Clark Trail geology, delving deep into the geological formati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Washington State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780874224399)
Although scholars have examined the ethnology, natural history, and geography surrounding the Lewis and Clark Expedition, in the ten expedition reaches Jengo studied, no equivalent earth sciences work exists. Still, multiple scholars questioned the...Loe edasi...
Drawing on family records, diaries and letters and featuring hitherto unpublished photographs and archive material this mesmerising book takes us beyond the myth to Shackleton the man, showing us a hero who eschewed imperial hierarchy and whose gr...Loe edasi...
In the summer of 1961, Stanley Johnson, accompanied by Tim Severin and Michael de Larrabeiti, set out from Oxford on two BSA 500cc Shooting Star motorcycles to follow Marco Polos route from Venice to Beijing. Although they came tantalizingly close t...Loe edasi...
Most people imagine the cold is the hardest part of living at the South Pole. It is not. The cold is predictable. It is the silence that catches you off guard. For nearly three years, Dale Herschlag lived at the Sout...Loe edasi...
Most people imagine the cold is the hardest part of living at the South Pole. It is not. The cold is predictable. It is the silence that catches you off guard. For nearly three years, Dale Herschlag lived at the South Pole, becoming one of fewer than...Loe edasi...
“On December 2, 1988, I lifted off aboard the Shuttle Atlantis on a top-secret mission to deploy a classified surveillance satellite. We accomplished the mission on the first day, but on the second, Mission Control informed us they had seen something...Loe edasi...
Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard has always dreamt of becoming an explorer. So in the spring of 1910, when Captain Robert Falcon Scott offers young Cherry the position of Assistant Zoologist aboard the Terra Nova,...Loe edasi...
Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard has always dreamt of becoming an explorer. So in the spring of 1910, when Captain Robert Falcon Scott offers young Cherry the position of Assistant Zoologist aboard the Terra Nova, Cherry considers himself the lu...Loe edasi...
