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The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a day's sail from its destination...

Am Anfang steht der Plan von der erstmaligen Durchquerung des weißen Kontinents. Doch das Naturwunder Antarktis wird zur Hölle aus Eis...

The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers - an organization of adventurous female world explorers - and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists....

On the first of September 1785, with night coming on and the weather deteriorating, the crew of the ship Faithful Steward sailed toward Delaware's notorious False Cape....

W. Dale Nelson offers a frank and honest portrayal of Toussaint Charbonneau, suggesting his character has been judged too harshly. He was indeed valuable as an interpreter....

The height of Mount Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any Westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mount Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain....

During the Age of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain's best known conquistadors....

Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of 12 American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815....

The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River....

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....

They went West to change their lives and in the bargain they changed the world. This is the extraordinary story of the men and women of the gold rush....

A History of the Philippines is a short, dense and temporally expansive book. It starts with the Evolution of the Land 100 million years ago. The writing...

В начале 80-х годов XIX века в верховьях Амура были обнаружены богатые золотые россыпи. Принятый в 1865 году закон, разрешавший частный золотой...

In the best-selling tradition of Hampton Sides’ In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions....

In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley....

Situated about 25 miles off the Tanzanian coast, Zanzibar has captured the imagination of travelers and writers for hundreds of years....

Published just seven weeks after the killing of Jesse James, this volume gives the full particulars of each and every dark and desperate deed in the career of this most noted outlaw....

Established around the beginning of the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company was determined to squeeze everyone else out of the market....

The heroes of each generation reflect the conditions, priorities, and goals of the era in which they reside....

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War....