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  A Voyage Long and Strange

  Rediscovering the New World

  by Tony Horwitz

  The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus’s sail in 1492 to Jamestown’s founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the... (more)
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  The Lost City of Z

  A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

  by David Grann

  A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David... (more)
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  Wind, Sand and Stars

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.
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  Endurance

  Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

  by Alfred Lansing

  The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as "Time" magazine put it, "defined heroism". Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book--with over 200,000 copies sold--has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the "Endurance's" fateful trip. of photos and maps. Nationwide traveling museum exhibition.
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  The Aeon's gate: Book 1

  Tome of the Undergates

  by Sam Sykes

  The debut novel from an extraordinarily talented twenty-five-year-old author. Fantasy's next global star has arrived. Lenk can barely keep control of his mismatched adventurer band at the best of times (Gariath the dragon man sees humans as little more than prey, Kataria the Shict despises most humans, and the humans in the band are little better). When they're not insulting each other's religions they're arguing... (more)
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  Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

  John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

  by Wallace Stegner

  The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.
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  Over the Edge of the World

  Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

  by Laurence Bergreen

  Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would... (more)
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  Lost City of the Incas

  by Hiram Bingham

  A special illustrated edition of Hiram Bingham's classic work captures all the magnificence and mystery of the amazing archeological sites he uncovered. Early in the 20th century, Bingham ventured into the wild and then unknown country of the Eastern Peruvian Andes--and in 1911 came upon the fabulous Inca city that made him famous: Machu Picchu. In the space of one short season he went on to discover two more lost... (more)
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  Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

  by Patrick French

  A brilliant portrait of legendary English adventurer Francis Younghusband.
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  Sunk Without a Sound

  The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde

  by Brad Dimock

  The mystery of Glen and Bessie Hyde is whitewater navigation's equivalent to Mallory and Irvine's disappearance on Everest in 1924. Just four years later in October 1928, the Hydes, a bright, attractive, and talented young couple built their own wooden sweep scow and launched on a honeymoon voyage down the Green and Colorado Rivers through Grand Canyon. Bessie was the first woman to ever attempt the river. Halfway... (more)
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  Fresh Air Fiend

  Travel Writings

  by Paul Theroux

  Paul Theroux's first collection of essays and articles devoted entirely to travel writing, FRESH AIR FIEND touches down on five continents and floats through most seas in between to deliver a literary adventure of the first order, with the incomparable Paul Theroux as a guide. From the crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snowbound Maine woods to the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over,... (more)
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  Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition

  The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat

  by Caroline Alexander

  The carpenter has a very fine cat who is known as "Mrs. Chippie"... -- from the diary of Commander F. A. Worsley, captain of Shackleton's Endurance When Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in the Antarctic ice, all twenty-nine members of the crew were pushed to their limits of survival, including Mrs. Chippy, the ship's estimable cat. Fortunately for posterity, Mrs. Chippy left a diary of... (more)
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  By the Grace of the Sea : A Woman's Solo Odyssey Around the World

  by Pat Henry

  "Henry's captivating account fills readers with admiration for her courage and stamina." -- Booklist "A wonderful voyage of self-discovery." -- Indianapolis Star "A powerful and compelling personal account of <Henry's> battle with the elements--plus inner and outer demons--while struggling to complete her solo journey around the world. What a book and what a woman!" --Willard Manus,... (more)
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  Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon

  by John Hildebrand

  John Hildebrand sets out in a canoe . . . to explore the great riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska. . . . The geography is closely rendered and the characters especially sharply drawn. The country is filled with mad dropouts at river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns, sullen natives in tumbledown villages, cranky old-timers, terrible drunks and worse moralizers who live off the wild ... (more)
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  A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer

  by Diana Preston

  The pirate genius who inspired Darwin, Defoe, and Cook. Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed around the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a major feat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, and reached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploits created a sensation in Europe. Swift and Defoe used his experiences in writing Gulliver's Travels and ... (more)
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  Nathaniel's Nutmeg

  Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History

  by Giles Milton

  The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by... (more)
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  A Teacup in a Storm

  by Mick Conefrey

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  Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook

  by Nicholas Thomas

  Commonly regarded as the greatest sea explorer of all time, James Cook made his three world-changing voyages during the 1770s, at a time when ships were routinely lost around the English coast. He made history by making geography-- sailing through previously unknown southern seas, charting the eastern Australian coast and circumnavigating New Zealand, putting many Pacific islands on the map, and exploring both the... (more)
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  Bold Spirit

  Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America

  by Linda Lawrence Hunt

  In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot... (more)
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  The Dig Tree

  by Sarah P. Murgatroyd

  The harrowing true story of the Burke and Willis expedition team who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost. They departed Melbourne's Royal Park in the summer of 1860, a misfit party of eighteen amateur explorers cheered on by thousands of well-wishers. Their mission: to chart a course across the vast unmapped interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the northern coast. Months later, only one man... (more)