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The Voyage of the Narwhal
Barrett, Andrea
The Voyage of the Narwhal
Barrett, Andrea
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W.W. Norton First Edition
1998 ISBN: 039304632X New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Part adventure narrative, part love story, this extraordinary chronicle captures a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the mystery of the Arctic. SAIL,NAVIGATION,SAILING SHIPS,ARCTIC,NAUTICAL,MARITIME, NINETEENTH CENTURY Book #3858 |
US$16.50 |
The Aztec Treasure House
Connell, Evan S.
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Counterpoint First Printing
2001 ISBN: 1582431620 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. These are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert, of the great explorers Marco Polo, Columbus, Coronado, Henry Hudson, Ibn Batuta, Mary Kingsley, of eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks and geniuses. By the author of Son of the Morning Star. ESSAYS,ANSAZI,MARCO POLO,COLUMBUS,CORONADO,EL DORADO, HENRY HUDSON,IBN BATUTA,AMERICAN SOUTHWEST,MESA VERDE, ATLANTIS,CRUSADES,AZTECS,PRESTER JOHN,ANTHOPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY,ASTRONOMY,HISTORY OF SCIENCE,DISCOVERY Book #5081,5082 |
US$14.50 |
The Silent World
Cousteau, Capt. Jacques-Yves with Frederick Dumas
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National Geographic Society
2004 ISBN: 0792267966 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The inventors of the aqualung recount their experieces as pioneers of underwater exploration. Illustrated. UNDERWATER EXPLORATION,MARINE BIOLOGY,CALYPSO Book #7331,7332 |
US$12.00 |
Barrow’s Boys
Fleming, Fergus
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Granta First Edition
1998 ISBN: 186207173X New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In 1816, John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty, initiated a tremendously ambitious program of exploration. Between then and 1845, his hand-picked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe’s empty spaces. BRITISH HISTORY,NINETEENTH CENTURY,ROYAL NAVY,ARCTIC, ANTARCTIC,NORTH POLE,SAHARA,PARRY,ROSS Book #7611 |
US$15.00 |
Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
Fredston, Jill
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Harvest / Harcourt 2007
ISBN: 0156032546 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Jill Fredston stalks avalanches. She predicts where and when they will strike, deliberately trggers them with explosives, teaches potential victims how to stay alive, and leads rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Illustrated. AVALANCHE,EARTH SCIENCE,WEATHER,NATURAL CATASTROPHES,RESCUE, ADVENTURE Book #7631 |
US$10.00 |
Bering: The Russian Discovery of America
Frost, Orcutt
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Yale University Press First
Edition 2003 ISBN: 0300100590 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In the first biography of Bering written in more than a century, Orcutt Frost chronicles the life of this extraordinary explorer...he journeyed from St. Petersburg to Siberia and ultimately to the northwest coast of North America. Illustrated. EXPLORERS,NORTH PACIFIC,RUSSIAN HISTORY,EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Book #7388,7389 |
US$17.50 |
High Adventure: Our Ascent of Everest
Hillary, Sir Edmund
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BCL Press Reissue 2003
ISBN: 1932302026 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The authoratative first-person account of Hillary and Tenzing's ascent of Mount Everest, re-issued on the 50th anniversary of this landmark achievement. In 1953, when he was thirty-three years old, Edmund Hillary became the first man to stand at the summit of Mount Everest, the Holy Grail for a generation of mountain climbers who had tried and failed to reach the highest point on earth (29,035 feet). Illustrated with photos, maps and drawings. MOUNTAIN CLIMBING,HIMALAYAS,TENZING NORGAY,NEPAL Book #5713 |
US$14.00 |
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard
Ledyard, John (edited by James Zug)
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National Geographic Society
2005 ISBN: 0792293479 New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Unmarked. A collection of the writings of the great, but little-known, early American adventurer who sailed with Captain James Cook, formed a fur trading company with John Paul Jones, and dreamed with Thomas Jefferson of exploring the western United States 20 years before the Lewis and Clark expedition. NAUTICAL,ADVENTURERS,AMERICAN HISTORY,COLONIAL AMERICA, CAPTAIN JAMES COOK,JOHN PAUL JONES,THOMAS JEFFERSON Book #7618 |
US$10.00 |
Travels
Marco Polo
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Wordsworth 1997
ISBN: 1853264733 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. The Travels recounts Polo’s journey (thirteenth-century) to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftan of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent but which was almost unknown to Polo’s ccontemporaries. MIDDLE AGES,MEDIEVAL HISTORY,MONGOLS,KUBLAI KHAN, ASIAN HISTORY Book #7432 |
US$8.00 |
On Alexander’s Track To The Indus: Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India
Stein, Aural
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Castle 2004 ISBN: 0785818316 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A reprint edition of the Hungarian archaeologist’s accounts, first published in 1929, of his Central Asian expeditions which followed in the footsteps of Alexander the Great. ARCHAEOLOGY,INDIA,PAKISTAN,AFGHANISTAN,PUNJAB, ALEXANDER THE GREAT Book #7431 |
US$14.00 |
The Great Whale Rescue: An American Folk Epic
Tiede, Tom with Jack Findleton
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Pharos First Edition
1986 ISBN: 0886872812 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "It started in Mid-October 1985 when two windsurfers on the Sacramento River saw a long, black, bulging bump shining in the sun, and - swimming. It was a whale, a huge humpback whale." Map on endpapers. CONSERVATION,ENVIRONMENTALISM,WILDLIFE,CALIFORNIA Book #2468,2789 |
US$13.50 |
The Crossing: The Glorious Tragedy of the First Man to Swim the English Channel
Watson, Kathy
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Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam
2001 ISBN: 158542109X New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The story of Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel,...”a man who achieved his dream but didn’t know what to do with it”. Illustrated. BIOGRAPHY,SPORTS,SWIMMING,ENGLISH CHANNEL,ATHLETES, ADVENTURERS Book #7536 |
US$14.00 |
Behind the Mexican Mountains
Zingg, Robert
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University of Texas Press
2001 ISBN: 0292798091 New Unread Trade Paperback. Slight creasing of front wrap. Unmarked. In 1930, anthropologists Robert Zingg and Wendell Bennett spent nine months among the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico, one of the least acculturated indigenous societies in North America. Their fieldwork resulted in The Tarahumara: An Indian Tribe of Northern Mexico (1935), a classic ethnography still familiar to anthropologists. In addition to this formal work, Zingg also penned a personal, unvarnished travelogue of his sojourn among the Tarahumara. Unpublished in his lifetime, Behind the Mexican Mountains is now available in print for the first time. Illustrated. MEXICO,CHIHUAHUA,TARAHUMARA,ANTHROPOLOGY,TRAVEL Book #7640 |
US$10.00 |