Geographical discovery and exploration Books
Oxford University Press Weighing the World
Book SynopsisAt the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World, master-surveyor and bestselling author Edwin Danson presents the stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through jungles, crossed the artic tundra, and braved the world''s highest mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. Danson also recounts the extraordinary experiment, conducted on a desolate Scottish peak by Astromer Royal Neville Maskelyne, to understand the so-called attraction of mountains, the curious capability mountians have to bend gravity, without which it would be impossible to accurately map Earth''s surface. A spell-binding scientific adventure story, Weighing the World will Trade ReviewThis is history writ large, with a long list of characters, and a background of wars, where good maps could be the key to victory. * The New Scientist *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. I Cannot Be Wrong ; 2. The Titan King ; 3. A Calm And Gentle Character ; 4. The Galileo Of France ; 5. Extreme Science ; 6. Robberies And Depredations ; 7. A Magnificent Military Sketch ; 8. Persons Well Versed ; 9. Very Expert In His Business ; 10. A Passage With My Horse ; 11. Frankenstein And Other Experiments ; 12. A Remarkable Hill ; 13. Important Observations ; 14. So Great A Noise ; 15. The Attraction of Mountains ; 16. The Best Of The Position ; 17. Distinguished Merit ; 18. Late A Whole Year ; 19. Geodetic Experiments ; 20. I Know It Will Answer ; 21. Offering Violence To Nature ; 22. A Meritorious Foreigner ; 23. Men Worthy Of Confidence ; 24. Irregularities We Have Discovered ; Explanations and Definitions
£26.12
Lulu.com RICORDI D INFANZIA
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Yale University Press Natures Government
Book SynopsisThis attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science and imperialism argues that expansion led to increasing knowledge. Science was fed by information culled from around the globe, aiding imperialism by guiding the exploitation of exotic climes and making conquest seem beneficial.
£61.59
Yale University Press Columbuss Outpost among the Taínos
Trade Review"Thanks to the superlative efforts of Kathleen Deagan and José Maria Cruxent, the archaeology of La Isabela—one of America’s most important sites—is now accessible to the world. Columbus’s Outpost among the Taínos is destined to become a classic in the field of historical archaeology."—David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History “La Isabela, founded by Columbus during his second voyage, was the first Spanish settlement in the New World. Kathleen Deagan and J.M. Cruxent are uniquely qualified to discuss this important event. Their book is based on sound scholarship and its style is clear and readable.”—Irving Rouse, author of The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
£33.78
Crown Finding Everett Ruess
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—OutsideWandering alone with burros and pack horses through California and the Southwest for five years in the early 1930s, on voyages lasting as long as ten months, Ruess became friends with photographers Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange, swapped prints with Ansel Adams, took part in a Hopi ceremony, learned to speak Navajo, and was among the first outsiders to venture deeply into what was then (and to some extent still is) largely a little-known wilderness. When he vanished without a trace in November 1934, Ruess left behind thousands of pages of journ
£14.99
Random House USA Inc In the Kingdom of Ice The Grand and Terrible
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with m
£17.00
Mariner Books The Viking Heart
Book SynopsisFrom a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and AmericaScandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—including the most famous, the Vikings—would reshape Europe and beyond. Their ingenuity, daring, resiliency, and loyalty to family and community would propel them to the gates of Rome, the steppes of Russia, the courts of Constantinople, and the castles of England and Ireland. But nowhere would they leave a deeper mark than across the Atlantic, where the Vikings’ legacy would become the American Dream.In The Viking Heart, Arthur Herman melds a compelling historical narrative with cutting-edge archaeological and DNA research to trace the epic story of this remarkable and diverse people. He shows how the Scandinavian experience has universal meaning, and how we can still be inspired by their indomitable spirit.
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Alfred A. Knopf The Endurance
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BEST SELLER • A riveting account of Shackleton's famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration—perhaps the greatest of them all—the shipwreck that stranded the crew for twenty months. Including never-before published photographs.In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail in their ship, Endurance, for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attemp
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Random House Publishing Group Farthest North The Incredible ThreeYear Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North Exploration S
Book SynopsisIn 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea’s drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount to suicide. This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration. Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sledge. Farthest North is an unforgettable tale and a must-read for any armchair explorer.
£20.70
Random House Publishing Group Weird And Tragic Shores The Story of Charles Francis Hall Explorer Exploration S
Book SynopsisIn 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances.Ninety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence. Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and th
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Penguin Publishing Group The Grizzly Maze Timothy Treadwells Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
Book SynopsisWith a new introduction on Werner Herzog’s film entitled The Grizzly ManTimothy Treadwell, self-styled “bear whisperer” dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media sensation.In The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans, a seasoned outdoor writer with a quarter century of experience writing about Alaska and bears, traces Treadwell’s rise from unknown waiter in California to celebrity, providing a moving portrait of the man whose controversial ideas and behavior earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of animal lovers and the skepticism of naturalists. “Intensely imagistic, artfully controlled prose . . . behind the building tension of Treadwell’s path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms.”—Newsday
£19.10
Basic Books Fatal Journey
Book SynopsisIn 1610, the English mariner Henry Hudson set off on a journey to find the Northwest Passage, the water route that Europeans hoped would speed the time of travel to East Asia. But Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage did not go well. This book tells the full story of Hudson and the other 23 men who set sail from London in April 1610.Trade ReviewBooklist "Mancall's account of the doomed voyage is exciting, tense, and tragic... This is an excellent re-examination of [Hudson] and his final, sad effort." Minneapolis Star Tribune "[Mancall's] facility with primary sources is astounding. The story of Hudson's last voyage becomes, in his experienced hands, a lucid, fascinating lens into early Atlantic explorations. The book bristles with action, details about ship life, insight into British laws (the mutineers were found not guilty), and jaw-dropping accounts of encounters with Americans." Seattle Times "This is a story that stretches the imagination and leaves the reader with a shiver." Las Cruces Sun-News "Mancall [is] a master storyteller and historian... Any reader of Dr. Mancall's account will be caught in an exciting adventure and overwhelming tragedy." Washington Times "Mr. Mancall writes with authority in tone and scholarship." New York Post "Rather than speculate, Mancall delivers the story of how Hudson's crusade put him on a collision course with his men... But the story is perhaps most compelling in its descriptions of the Northern territory itself." Washington Post "[Fatal Journey] recounts the puzzling episode of a captain overthrown by an enraged faction of his own crew... [A] short and dependable guide to what befell a great but flawed explorer." Newark Star-Ledger "For fans of Mutiny on the Bounty and The Caine Mutiny, Fatal Journey will only add to the store and lore of desperate actions on the high seas... [Mancall] combines forensic history with pulsing narrative to achieve a highly credible account of how the mission unraveled." Boston Globe "Bracingly told." Boston Globe "Fatal Journey is a rich, exhilarating narrative of exploration, desperation, and ice-bound tragedy." History Magazine "Mancall places Hudson and the mutiny in the context of their age, a time when economic and cultural forces lured explorers and sailors into the dangers of a new world in search of profit and fame." Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research "Mancall, in this fascinating account based on a great deal of research, provides a reasonable explanation of Hudson's likely fate, after probably surviving for a polar winter or two... I recommended this excellent book to both armchair explorers and serious students of the history of the Arctic."
£22.64
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Exploration Map by Map
£34.00
iUniverse OK So Now I Know
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iUniverse MADAM HAVE YOU EVER iREALLYi BEEN HAPPY An Intimate Journey through Africa and Asia
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iUniverse BlueCollar Wings Remembering Thirty Years of Private Flying
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iUniverse Quest for Antarctica A Journey of Wonder and Discovery
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iUniverse Flying North South East and West Arctic to the Sahara
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iUniverse BlueCollar Wings Remembering Thirty Years of Private Flying
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Linda Bootherstone Three Wandering Poms
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Nick Jaffe The Years Thunder By
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BLACK & WHITE PUB WellIntentioned Advice
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Samuel Tree Publishing, LLC Winds of Skilak A Tale of True Grit True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness Volume 1
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Independently Published Between the Seas Josefina and I in Central America
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Xlibris Corporation In Search of the Elusive Peace Corps Moment Destination Estonia
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AuthorHouse Flying Star A Sailboats Story
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Thomas Nelson Wild Men Wild Alaska
Book SynopsisIn Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers directly into the Alaskan bush, and shows how a majestic wilderness can push a man to his limits until there is nowhere to look but up.
£12.34
John Wiley & Sons By His Own Hand The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
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Random House USA Inc Pirate Hunters
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New York University Press The South Pole 19101912 An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram 19101912 An Account of the Norwegian Antartic Expedition in the Fram
Book SynopsisBefore Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic waters in 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen led a courageous team through ice-chocked waters to become the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. Read the fascinating account of his journey in The South Pole. Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag on the South Pole on December 14, 1911: a full month before Robert Falcon Scott arrived on the same spot. Amundsen's 'The South Pole' is less well-known than his rival's, in part because he is less of a literary stylist, but also, perhaps, because he survived the journey. His book is a riveting first-hand account of a truly professional expedition; Amundsen's heroism is understated, but it is heroism nonetheless. --The Times of London, 23 June 2001 At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the spring of 1911 two separate expeditions left their respective camps in AntarcticTrade Review"Amundsen was the supreme exponent of Polar technique. He towered above his rivals; he brought an intellectual approach to exploration and stood, as he still stands, the antipole to the heroic delusion... The journey to the South Pole remains his masterpiece, the culmination of the classical age of Polar exploration and, perhaps, the greatest snow journey ever made." -Roland Huntford,The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole
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Design Enterprises of San Francisco Sole Survivor
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Amazon Hitchhiker
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Laurence Parent Photography, Inc Death In Big Bend
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Spruce Tree Press Conquistador Voices vol I
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Renee Budde Cody Life Lessons Inspired by My Spirited Mare
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Staghorn Ridge Publications Packin Spuds The History of the IDAHO Potato
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Pat Toth-Smith Photography Wild Among Us True Adventures of a Female Wildlife Photographer Who Stalks Bears Wolves Mountain Lions Wild Horses and Other Ellu
£33.29
Brian Westland The Yosemite
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Joan Druett Tupaia Captain Cooks Polynesian Navigator
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B. Goldstein Publishing Shackletons Three Miracles Bilingual YiddishEnglish Translation of the Endurance Expedition
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LEGARE STREET PR Sailing Alone Around the World
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LEGARE STREET PR David Thompsons Narrative of His Explorations in Western America
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LEGARE STREET PR Man Eaters Of Kumaon
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