History - Expeditions & Discoveries
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly ...
David Grann
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed 'New Yorker' writer Grann sets out to solve 'the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Los...
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A Tr...
The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of...
The Fourth Part of the World: An Asto...
Toby Lester
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave Ame...
The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Ou...
Learn to unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of a great, forbidding adventure and "a fascinating examination of the seven key traits of history's most famous explorers…[with] infusions of insight and enthusiasm&...
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, ...
Robert Kurson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifyin...
Marco Polo: The Journey That Changed ...
John Man
"I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." — ...
The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of...
UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of people who tried an...
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of...
Nigel Cliff
HistorianNigel Cliff delivers a sweeping, radical reinterpretation of Vasco da Gama'spioneering voyages, revealing their significance as a decisive turning point inthe struggle between Christianity and Islam—a series of events which...
Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark ...
Farcountry Press
This full-color poster outlines the Lewis & Clark Expedition's trip from St. Louis to the Pacific and back.
Exploration Fawcett: Journey to the L...
Percy Harrison Fawcett
This is the true story of the real Colonel Fawcett, whose life was the inspiration for the bestselling book The Lost City of Z and an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt. A thrilling account, it tells of Colonel Fawcett and his mysterio...
Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition o...
Thorkild Hansen
A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades.Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter mornin...
The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John...
John F. Ross
A timely, thrilling account of a man who, as an explorer, dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon--and, as an American visionary, waged a bitterly-contested campaign for environmental s...
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Acr...
Adam Shoalts
National bestseller\r\n\r\nA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from \"Canada\'s greatest living explorer.\"\r\n\r\nIn the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented s...
The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for ...
Chanan Tigay
A gripping account of one man'squest to find the oldest Bible in the world and solve the riddle of thebrilliant, doomed antiquities dealer accused of forging it. Inthe summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira--archaeological treasure h...
Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Th...
This narrative will comprehend not only all the explorations made in past ages, but also all the new discoveries which have of late years so greatly interested the scientific world. In order to give to this work—enlarged perforce by...