History - Expeditions & Discoveries
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to...
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to...
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke*National Bestseller*A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island...
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's EnduranceBy the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance, streaming soon on Disney+"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound's account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe...
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The Shortest History of Scandinavia: 14,000 Years from the Stone Age and the Vikings to the Happiest Nations in the WorldScandinavia has long been lauded for its equality, universal welfare, peacefulness, and untouched nature--not to mention its interior design, crime literature, and love of all things hygge. But the Nordic nations have had their dark periods, too: pandemics, wars and occupations, and expansionism are...
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The Space Shuttle: A Mission-By-Mission Celebration of Nasa's Extraordinary Spaceflight Program"Any backyard astronomer or space enthusiast would be delighted to have this visual journey on their shelf." --The Strategist, The Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books A Barnes & Noble Best Gift Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2022 selection 6 orbiters,...
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The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest***NPR Books We Love selection*** "If you're only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure."--OutsideShivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott...
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The TrailA Transformative Journey on the John Muir TrailWINNER OF TWO LITERARY AWARDSA NEXT GEN INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALISTIn Kirkus Reviews BEST BOOKS OF 2021 issue"UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMENDED" -Midwest Book ReviewSet authentically in the High Sierra, The Trail is a moving story of how nature helps...
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The Travels Marco PoloMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war...
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The White DarknessFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime...
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of MountaineeringWhether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary...
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of MountaineeringWhether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary...
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James CookNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to...
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The Worst Journey in the WorldA firsthand account of Scott's disastrous Antarctic expedition The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard--the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey--draws...
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The Year 1000: When Globalization Began*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a "vivid" and "astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected...
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America"A landmark . . . brilliantly [demonstrates] has that there is far more to black history than the slave trade."--John A. Williams They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America....
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Titan Unfinished: An Untold Story of Exploration, Innovation, and the Oceangate TragedyA firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofounder and friend. In the summer of 2023, the entire world fixated on...
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at SeaIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American WestFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803...
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Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert DarrellCanada's greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old. In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike...
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