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...
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...
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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774870139)
Sheds light on the impact of twentieth-century northern expansion in Canada. Exploration has long been pivotal to southern engagements with northern Canada, but it is most often associated with the nineteenth century or earlier. A C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781634995870)
Burlington Northern Adventures relates the personal experiences of the author William J. Brotherton, who went “railroading” as a brakeman, conductor, and trainmaster for the Burlington Northern Railroad system from 1979 to 1982. Burlington No...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...
“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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217169030)
The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over 1 billion dollars in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it—from the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at...Loe edasi...
From the bestselling author of Thirst and Mud, Rocks, Blazes, this compelling memoir chronicles Heather Anderson’s ambitious journey to thru-hike America’s Triple Crown--the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trails--in...Loe edasi...
Previously published under the title Throne of GraceThe explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: North Star Press of St. Cloud, ISBN-13: 9781682011621)
Spanning 417 years from the first entry in 1353 to the last in 1770, the Sinclair/ Wemyss journals tell the personal stories of how fifteen generations within two Scottish clans completed a sacred mission to establish a sanctuary in the lands “far...Loe edasi...
New York City native Derick Lugo’s life changed in 2012 when he spontaneously decided to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. In the years that followed, he became an advocate for the outdoors and eventually set out on his second thru-hike--this time on...Loe edasi...
Junglekeeper is for any reader yearning to be led on an expedition into the wild of life in that strange world on which all life on Earth depends-and in that wild, into discovering the deepest truths of human existence, calling, purpose, connectedne...Loe edasi...
“A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon WooA riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing jou...Loe edasi...
This is history as you long to read it, charismatic, concise and unputdownable. – HORATIO CLARELike Sir Francis Drake and Lord Horatio Nelson in Kevin Jackson’s acclaimed maritime history series, Captain James Cook was also born of h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780593803400)
Step into the life and times of George Forster, the young naturalist and revolutionary who journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and whose radical ideas about humanity and freedom made waves in eighteenth-century Europe—from the bestsell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Calendar, Kirjastus: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806941032)
This calendar curates 12 amazing photographs from the collections of The Polar Museum, documenting the expeditions of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and...Loe edasi...
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...
(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...
(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: 30-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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Apr-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: 29-Apr-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...
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...
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...
(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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774870139)
Sheds light on the impact of twentieth-century northern expansion in Canada. Exploration has long been pivotal to southern engagements with northern Canada, but it is most often associated with the nineteenth century or earlier. A C...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: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781634995870)
Burlington Northern Adventures relates the personal experiences of the author William J. Brotherton, who went “railroading” as a brakeman, conductor, and trainmaster for the Burlington Northern Railroad system from 1979 to 1982. Burlington No...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...
