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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2

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James Cook


Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…

Through Timbuctu and Across the Great Sahara

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Austin H. W. Haywood


Through Timbuctu and across the great Sahara: an account of an adventurous journey of exploration from Sierra Leone to the source of the Nig…

The Mystery of Easter Island: the Story of an Expedition

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Katherine Routledge


To this day, Easter Island, with its magnificent stone structures, remains an enigma. Katherine Routledge was part of an exhaustive archaeol…

The Story of the Trapper

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Agnes C. Laut


Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…

The Land of Midian (Revisited)

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Richard Francis Burton


The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality a…

The Life of Columbus

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Sir Arthur Helps


A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…

Little Masterpieces of Science - Explorers

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George Iles


"The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the p…

The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known, Version 2

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Joseph Jacobs


From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…

The Romance of Early Exploration

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Archibald Williams


The Author has been encouraged by the reception given to The Romance of Modern Exploration to write a companion volume on the adventures of …

The Romance of Modern Exploration

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Archibald Williams


It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

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John Hanning Speke


This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…

Across the Andes

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Charles Johnson Post


“The legion that never was listed,”The soft-lilting rhythm and song,The starlight, and shadowy tropics,The palms—and all that belong;The unk…

The Northward Course of Empire

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson


The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of a new wave of civil expansion into the Arctic Circle, a region generally c…

Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of Travel

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Gertrude Bell


Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studying the archaeology and ant…

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In Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North

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Stephen Leacock


This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the No…

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