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...
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...
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...
Queen of the night, Darwins comet, ladys slipper, little dragon, black chimaera - the otherworldly names of orchid species are as beautiful as these sought-after flowers themselves.From flamboyant and colourful to strange and unde...Loe edasi...
A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth. The White LadderThe White LadderThroughout, Light pays special attention to Incan climbers, Gurkha guides, Sherpa mountaineers...Loe edasi...
The first chapters of Secrets of Antarctica will question the possibility of a lost continent, and visit the land of the Patagonia giants. Next are the Age of Exploration maps depicting the Ice Continent centuries before Antarctica was officially dis...Loe edasi...
THE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALLIn 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond adventure. Aided by...Loe edasi...
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 sca...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...
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...
