History - Expeditions & Discoveries
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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage Through the AmazonWith a new introduction, the acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history's greatest adventures of discovery, a legendary 16th-century explorer's death-defying navigation of the Amazon, river of darkness and pathway to gold--the first complete exploration of the world's largest...
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the ColumbiaIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers' encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark's adventures through their journey to the Bitterroot Mountains but have said little about the rest...
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the NileNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE...
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SacajaweaIn the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 1806. Her fame rests upon her contributions to the expedition....
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842"A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's...
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia"Who hasn't stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Christina Thompson's Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all."--Richard Rhodes, author of Energy: A Human History and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb"Magnificent. . . . A...
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Secrets of Antarctica: The Untold History of the Ice ContinentThe 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 discovered. New Swabia (Neuschwabenland) was...
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South: The Endurance ExpeditionAs war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it...
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Space Journal: Art, Science and Cosmic ExplorationAn endless source of fascination, space is both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. Space Journal is a visual celebration of our perception of the cosmos across centuries and cultures. In drawings and diagrams, plans, charts, and paintings, a great range...
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The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and SurvivalIncredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West. The "mountain men" were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals,...
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The Art of Biodiversity: Artists & Naturalists, 1700-1900Strikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the astonishing diversity of life on Earth.Between 1700 and 1900, an art movement unveiled nature's great secret:...
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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant PandaA 2025 Wall Street Journal Summer Book to Get Lost In A 2025 New York Times Nonfiction Summer Preview Pick "A beautiful and powerful book." --Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author "Valuable, revelatory, and contagiously page-turning." --David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author...
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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant PandaA New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 - A New York Times Book Review Critics' Pick - A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 - Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature "A thrilling work of history that's...
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The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American WildernessRenowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers in this fascinating "blend of history, science, art, biography, and memoir" (Booklist, starred review) that is "a bird lovers' delight" (Kirkus Reviews). Raging ambition. Towering egos....
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The Blue NileIn the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or...
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of MexicoThe revolutionary account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, through the eyes of the vanished, challenging colonial narratives and centering Aztec voices A limited Beacon Classics edition, with a gorgeous spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette For hundreds of years, the history of...
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The Complete Journals of Lewis and Clark (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)The Journals of Lewis and Clark document an expedition across the United States as commissioned by President Jefferson. Shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Lewis and Clark set out on a journey to explore and map the newly acquired territory, to find a...
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The Endurance Photographs: A Definitive Visual Record of Shackleton's ExpeditionExperience Sir Ernest Shackleton's fascinating and harrowing journey as never before. This deluxe art book presents the first high-quality prints of all surviving photographs from the 1914 polar expedition, one of the most epic survival stories of all time. Crew photographer Frank Hurley not...
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic ExpeditionNATIONAL 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...
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The Essential Lewis and ClarkThis compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure--in their own words The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most...
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