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Elizabeth's Sea Dogs

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Conway:

Seller ID: 467097

ISBN: 1844862143

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Knopf: November 1998

Seller ID: 99513

ISBN: 0375404031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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 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 their ship, 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...
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: May 2004

Seller ID: 418678

ISBN: 0142004693

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

More than two centuries after Master's Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mut...
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: May 2004

Seller ID: 467090

ISBN: 0142004693

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

By: Armstrong, Jennifer

Price: $3.00

Publisher: February 2011

Seller ID: 470661

ISBN: 0439109922

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History

By: Balen, Malcolm

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: June 2004

Seller ID: 467096

ISBN: 0007161786

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An unscrupulous Englishman had the notion for a company that would establish a lucrative trade in silver and spices between England and the Americas. What the investors didn't know was that the South Sea Company barely owned a ship. In this gripping account, Malcolm Balen reveals the true story of how a simple stock-share scheme became a Dickensian web of political and financial intrigue that threatened to overturn two monarchies and topple the British government. Set in the mazy back alleys of the newly inaugurated financial districts of 1720s London and Paris, The King, the Crook, and...
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Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas

By: Balf, Todd

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 369735

ISBN: 0609609890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Rolling Home

By: Barnes, William Morris

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 404596

ISBN: 1848321651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Barnes was born in 1850 into a ship owning family in St. Johns, Newfoundland, and first went to sea while still a boy. At the outbreak of the First World War he volunteered for service even though he was 64. During the war, he was mined or torpedoed three times and spent three days adrift in an open boat. After the war, sea-dog's life became the basis for a popular cartoon character and he published the story of his adventures in a memoir marked with a strong narrative flair. His autobiography makes for riveting reading and shows how exciting was the life of a turn-of-the century sailor.
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $6.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 92968

ISBN: 006093638X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
"Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review
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 <...
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 416224

ISBN: 006093638X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
"Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review
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 <...
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 450029

ISBN: 006093638X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
"Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review
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 <...
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 467091

ISBN: 006093638X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
"Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review
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 <...
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Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2012

Seller ID: 467650

ISBN: 014312210X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all the difference, an inborn sense of the sea, of wind and weather, and of selecting the optimal course to get from A to B. Laurence Bergreen's energetic and bracing book gives the whole Columbus and most importantly, the who...
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Last Voyageurs: Retracing La Salle's Journey Across America: Sixteen Teenagers on the Adventure of a Lifetime

By: Boissoneault, Lorraine

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 351093

ISBN: 1605989762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Together they set off on an eight-month, 3,300-mile expedition across the major waterways of North America. They fought strong currents on the St. Lawrence, paddled through storms on the Great Lakes, and walked over 500 miles across the frozen Midwest during one of the coldest winters of the 20th century, all while putting on performances about the history of French explorers for communities along their route. The crew had to overcome disagreements, a crisis of leadership, and near-death experiences before coming to the end of their journey. The Last Voyageurs tells the story of...
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver

By: Bown, Stephen R.

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 404382

ISBN: 1553653394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history s greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its time the most comprehensive ever undertaken. But just two years after returning to Britain, the 40-year-old Vancouver, hounded by critics, shamed by public humiliation at the fists of an aristocratic ...
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Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

By: Burton, Sir Richard

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 371753

ISBN: 0393301664

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool . . . the Devil drives "

So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of the lower Congo in 1863, wrote to Monckton Milnes from the African kingdom of Dahomey. His answer, "the Devil drives," applies not only to his geographical discoveries but also to the whole of his turbulent life.

Burton was a true man of the Renaissance. He was soldier, explorer, ethnologist, archaeologist, poet, tr...
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography

By: Burton/Rice, Edward

Price: $6.00

Publisher: March 2010

Seller ID: 82468

ISBN: 030681028X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European adventurer to search for the source of the Nile; to enter, disguised, the forbidden cities of Mecca and Medina; and to travel through remote stretches of India, the Near East, and Africa. From his spying exploits to his startling literary accomplishments (the discovery and translation of the Kama Sutra and his seventeen-volume translation of ...
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Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

By: Chaplin, Joyce E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2013

Seller ID: 467087

ISBN: 1416596208

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Highly acclaimed, this first full history of around-the-world travel by Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. A witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.
In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth--by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, or going into orbit; even by using their own...
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Mercator : The Man Who Mapped the Planet

By: Crane, Nicholas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Orion Pub Co: June 2003

Seller ID: 467083

ISBN: 075381692X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Gerard Mercator (1512 1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word atlas and solved the riddle of converting the three dimensional globe into a two dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercator's Projection that NASA are using today to map Mars. How did Mercator reconcile his religious beliefs with a science that would make Christian maps obsolete? How did a m...
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Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole

By: Cross, Wilbur

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 353363

ISBN: 1585740497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shackleton. Scott. Amundsen. The great twentieth-century polar explorers. But others, too, were engaged in scrambles to the poles. One of the most bizarre and tragic took place in 1928.
Against the backdrop of Mussolini's rising power, one of Italy's premier aeronautical engineers, Umberto Nobile, gained acclaim by crossing the North Pole in a dirigible. With this success under his belt, Nobile decided in 1928 to raise the ante and take his newly designed airship to the North Pole, land it and then return to base. But what started in glory turned into a tale of disaster when the airship cras...
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