Exploration

100 Greatest Trips

by Travel & Leisure

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
287 PAGES

From the pages of Travel & Leisure. (WLD131, $19.99)

90 Degrees South, with Scott to the Antarctic

by Herbert Ponting

EXPLORATION
1933
DVD
OUT OF PRINT

Herbert Ponting's extraordinary documentary footage of Scott's expedition. (ANT111, $29.95)

Across Arctic America, Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition

by Knud Rasmussen

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
415 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A facsimile edition of Rasmussen's 1927 account of a 20,000-mile journey by dogsled across the top of North America. (ARC90, $24.95)

Across the Top of the World

by James P. Delgado

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
224 PAGES

Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this richly illustrated history by James Delgado covers the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage, from the disaster of the Franklin Expedition, to the triumph of Roald Amundsen, all the way up to present-day research. (ARC61, $19.95)

Across the Top of the World, To the North Pole by Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker

by Andrew Fisher

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
305 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An entertaining account of Arctic exploration. (ARC45, $12.00)

Adventure Without End

by Richard Bangs

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
228 PAGES

A collection of 16 globe-spanning reports from the field (including Patagonia, Idaho and Borneo) by the peripatetic river rat and writer. (TVL30, $16.95)

The Adventurers' Handbook: An Extreme, Extraordinary, and Exciting Journey Around the World

by Anita Ganeri

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
128 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Learn practical skills such as how to say hello in 16 languages, beat jet lag and use chopsticks, learn about racing a dog team and crossing the Sahara Desert on a camel and other amazong feats in this imaginative guide. (TVL500, $9.99)

Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail, Five Firsthand Narratives

by Elliot Snow

EXPLORATION
1986
PAPER
353 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

The first of these five narratives of adventure on the high seas is the account by Captain Charles Bernard, whose ship crew left him marooned on New Island in the Falklands. (ANT57, $14.95)

Adventures in Ocean Exploration, From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood

by Robert D. Ballard

EXPLORATION
2001
HARD COVER
288 PAGES

Combining history with the excitement of discovery, Ballard uses his experience in seeking sunken ships as a framework for exploring humanity's ocean-going past. (OCE138, $40.00)

The Airmen and the Headhunters

by Judith Heimann

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
304 PAGES

Heimann tracked down the Borneo side of the nearly forgotten saga of 11 young American airmen shot down over Kalimantan in WWII -- and the Australian pilots, missionaries and, especially, the Dayak villagers who helped them to survive and evade capture. (BRN29, $15.95)

Alone at Sea

by Hannes Lindemann

EXPLORATION
1993
PAPER
186 PAGES

Essential reading for any adventurous kayaker or ocean sailor, this 1958 account of a solo voyage across the Atlantic in a Klepper double kayak is a classic. Dr. Lindemann made the cover of Life magazine for his amazing feat. (OCE58, $39.95)

Alone, The Classic Polar Adventure

by Richard E. Byrd | Kieran Mulvaney

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
309 PAGES

The classic journal kept by Byrd through the long Antarctic night. (ANT74, $27.50)

Amazing Maya Inventions You Can Build Yourself

by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
144 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

With 25 hands-on projects, kids will learn about the Maya civilization and its remarkable culture and innovations. Includes activities on Mayan hieroglyphs, numbering systems and astronomy. (MYA52, $14.95)

America Discovered, A Historical Atlas of Exploration

by Derek Hayes

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
280 PAGES

Derek Hayes artfully traces the discovery, exploration, and settlement of North America in 300 beautiful map in this sumptuous book, a testimony not only to Columbus, Coronado, Hudson, Lewis and Clark and others but also to the prairies, plains, waterways and mountains of the continent. (NAM22, $35.00)

American Traveler, The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World

by James Zug

EXPLORATION
2005
HARD COVER
277 PAGES

The biography an intrepid early American soul, and friend of Jefferson, who sailed with James Cook, trekked across Siberia and was among the first Americans to visit Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. (WLD54, $25.00)

Among the Mountains, Travels through Asia

by Wilfred Thesiger

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
174 PAGES

A classic account of intrepid British explorer Wilfred Thesiger's travels through the mountain ranges of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Karakorams, the Hindu Kush, and Ladakh. (ASA28, $17.99)

Annapurna, A Woman's Place

by Arlene Blum

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
247 PAGES

This account of the historic 1978 climb celebrates the first American ascent of Annapurna by a team of 13 women. The climbers were also, notably, the first women to scale any of the world's 8,000 meter-peaks. (HML30, $19.95)

Annapurna, The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and its Harrowing Aftermath

by Maurice Herzog

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
256 PAGES
FAVORITE

Conrad Anker provides a new foreword for this 60th-anniversary edition of Maurice Herzog's classic, dictated from his hospital bed in Paris. French minister of youth and sport in the 1960s and former mayor of Chamonix, Herzog recovered nicely (he's 103 in 2012). (HML07, $16.95)

Antarctica Unveiled

by David Yelverton

EXPLORATION
2000
HARD COVER
472 PAGES

A comprehensive, deatiled history of Scott's first Antarctic expedition. (ANT138, $39.95)

Antarctica, An Adventure of a Different Nature

by IMAX

EXPLORATION
1999
DVD

A breathtakingly beautiful IMAX documentary of Antarctic wildlife, research and exploration featuring innovative aerial and underwater photography. 38 minutes. (ANT199, $19.99)

Antarctica, Both Heaven and Hell

by Reinhold Messner | Jill Neate

EXPLORATION
1991
HARD COVER
383 PAGES

A riveting account of the author's 92-day, 1,600-mile journey across Antarctica on foot. (GEN43, $24.95)

Antarctica, Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance

by Charles Neider

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
460 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An anthology of eyewitness reports by 14 Antarctic explorers raging from Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen to Edmund Hillary. Excellent reading. (ANT109, $18.95)

Arabian Sands

by Wilfred Thesiger

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
400 PAGES
FAVORITE

The last of the great British traveler-explorers, Thesiger (1910-2003) journeyed among the nomadic camel-breeding peoples of Southern Arabia in the late 1940s, falling in love with the desert and ways of life of the Bedouin. This eloquent book is his tribute to them. (ARB15, $16.00)

The Arch of Kerguelen, Voyage to the Island of Desolation

by Jean-Paul Kauffmann

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2000
HARD COVER
288 PAGES

A meditation on the remote subantarctic archipelago. (ANT146, $23.00)

Arctic Adventure, My Life in the Frozen North

by Peter Freuchen | Gretel Ehrlich

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
400 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A marvelous account of life in remote northwest Greenland, originally published in 1935. Freuchen ran a trading post at Thule with Knud Rasmussen. (ARC133, $17.95)

Arctic Discoveries, Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North

by John R. Bockstoce

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
122 PAGES

This handsome collection of 100 color photographs documents people and places in throughout the circumpolar north. (ARC154, $29.95)

Arctic Grail, The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole

by Pierre Berton

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
672 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An engaging narrative history of Arctic exploration, and especially of the politics, personalities and ambitions of those who sought the Northwest Passage and North Pole. (ARC86, $24.95)

Arctic Labyrinth, The Quest for the Northwest Passage

by Glyn Williams

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
464 PAGES

Drawing on letters, archives and explorer accounts, Williams charts the full sweep of the history of discovery and the quest for the Northwest Passage. (ARC254, $22.95)

Arctic Mission

by Discovery Channel

EXPLORATION
DVD

This 5-disc set includes the voyage of the SEDNA from Montreal to Vancouver across the Northwest Passage and episodes on global warming and its impact on the people and the wildlife of the North. (ARC215, $19.95)

Arctic Obsession

by Alexis Troubetzkoy

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
302 PAGES

From the earliest Vikings to William Barent, William Edward Parry, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen and 21st-century adventurers, Troubetzkoy traces the history of explorers and entrepreneurs across the Arctic. (ARC288, $25.99)

Arctic Superstars

by William Putnam

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
320 PAGES

An American Alpine Club centennial celebration of Adolphus Greely and George Melville. (ARC144, $19.95)

The Arctic, A History

by Richard Vaughan

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
365 PAGES

This revised edition of Richard Vaughn's useful history of the native peoples, explorers and politics in the Arctic from the earliest inhabitants to the present includes new chapters on climate change, mineral rights and other issues. (ARC37, $34.95)

Around Cape Horn

by Irving Johnson

EXPLORATION
1986
DVD

Captain Irving Johnson memorably narrates this documentary of his 1929 voyage as a young man aboard the Peking, featuring a remarkable sequence about the ship rounding the Horn in a storm. Talk about bad weather! (PAT68, $29.95)

The Art of Rough Travel: From the Peculiar to the Practical, Advice from a 19th Century Explorer

by Sir Francis Galton | Katharine Harmon

EXPLORATION
2006
HARD COVER
124 PAGES

In this charming guide, both hilariously outdated and ridiculously relevant, Sir Francis Galton offers offbeat advice to fellow explorers (and a glimpse into his own travels in southwest Africa). Originally published in 1872. (TVL114, $15.95)

Assault in Norway, Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Bomb

by Thomas Gallagher

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
234 PAGES

A small team of Norwegian ski commandos on a mission to destroy the Vemork heavy water plant -- and stop the Germans from getting the atomic bomb. A gripping true story of bravery and endurance against all odds, featuring hair-raising escapades -- some of which are so outrageous they seem lifted from an action novel. Non-fiction. (NOR62, $18.95)

Baffin Island

by Al Lee

EXPLORATION
2012
HARD COVER
128 PAGES

Photographer and mountaineer Alastair Lee reveals Baffin Island's astonishing landscapes with panoramic photos, accompanied by individual accounts from each member of the eight-man expedition team to Mount Asgard. (ARC303, $40.00)

Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy

by Fergus Fleming

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
512 PAGES

A vivid tale of 19th century British exploration, a time when the British Admiralty in search of territory and glory dispatched expeditions to discover the Northwest Passage, source of the Nile and other grails of geographic exploration. (EXP06, $15.00)

Bayonets to Lhasa

by Peter Fleming

EXPLORATION
2012
PAPER
328 PAGES
COMING IN JULY

In this classic, originally publsihed in 1961, Fleming relates the story of Fleming's telling account of Colonel Francis Younghusband and British invasion of Tibet with flair. (TBT146, $18.00)

Before the Heroes Came, Antarctica in the 1890s

by Tim Baughman

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
160 PAGES

This well written account of the pioneering Antarctic encounters stars Carsten Borchgrevnink, who spent the first winter on the continent in 1898 at the hut still standing at Cape Adare, and other early explorers. (ANT105, $16.00)

Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833

by Charles Tyng

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
270 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

The entertaining true-life adventures of a 19th-century shipping merchant. (EXP04, $19.00)

Below the Convergence, Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839

by Alan Gurney

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
336 PAGES

A polished storyteller (and popular lecturer on Antarctic voyages), Gurney weaves remarkable tales of early exploration in this riveting account. (ANT43, $15.95)

Beyond the Edge, The Search for Ultima Thule

by Gerald Johnson

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
109 PAGES

Robert Peary figures proiminatently in this captivating tale of the Northernmost Land on Earth, vairously Peary's Cape Morris Jesup to recently discovered offshore islands, including Koffeklubben, Oodaaq and Euro-American Island, happened upon in 2003. (ARC301, $39.95)

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

by Wallace Stegner

EXPLORATION
1992
PAPER
438 PAGES

The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of explorer John Wesley Powell by the great Wallace Stegner, first published in 1954. It's both an adventure and an insightful look at the politics of development in the American West. (USW78, $17.00)

Beyond the Sea of Ice, Voyages of Henry Hudson

by Joan Elizabeth Goodman

EXPLORATION
1999
HARD COVER
48 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A colorfully illustrated account of the voyages of Henry Hudson to Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya and Eastern North America. (EXP11, $22.95)

The Big Open, On Foot Across Tibet's Chang Tang

by Rick Ridgeway | Conrad Anker

EXPLORATION
2004
HARD COVER
304 PAGES

An adventure writer recounts his trek across Tibet's inhospitable northern region in search of the chiru, an endangered species of antelope. (TBT80, $26.00)

The Black Hills

by Richard Irving Dodge

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
188 PAGES

An account of an 1875 expedition into the Black Hills. Lieutenant Colonel Dodge journeyed from Cheyenne, Wyoming with geologist Walter P. Jenney and 452 other men on a five-month expedition in search of gold. (USP09, $14.95)

The Black Rhinos of Namibia, Searching for Survivors in the African Desert

by Rick Bass

EXPLORATION
2012
HARD COVER
272 PAGES
COMING IN AUGUST

Rick Bass' lifelong search for rare and iconic animals takes him in to the harsh terrain of the Namib desert on the trail of the rare black rhino. In insightful prose Bass tells the story of the rhinos, brought back from near-extinction thanks to cutting edge conservation. (EXP98, $25.00)

Blizzard, Race to the Pole

by Jasper Rees

EXPLORATION
2006
HARD COVER
288 PAGES

Modern adventurers recreate the original dash for the South Pole for BBC in this latest attempt to reslove whether it poor judgment or bad luck that doomed Scott's last expedition. (ANT240, $29.95)

Blue Nile, Ethiopia's River of Magic and Mystery

by Virginia Morell

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
324 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A spirited, insightful account of an expedition by raft from the Ethiopian highlands to the Sudan. (ETP27, $14.00)

The Boardman Tasker Omnibus

by Joe Tasker | Peter Boardman

EXPLORATION
1995
HARD COVER
166 PAGES

This gripping collection includes four classics of climbing literature: Savage Arena, the Shining Mountain, Everest the Cruel Way, and Sacred Summits, Tasker's 1979 ascent of Kangchenjunga with Joe Tasker and Doug Scott. (HML99, $38.00)

Bone Hunters in Patagonia: Narrative of the Expedition

by J.B. Hatcher

EXPLORATION
1985
PAPER
209 PAGES

A classic account of paleontological discovery in remote Patagonia, originally published in 1903 as part of Hatcher's multi-volume expedition report. (PAT21, $22.00)

The Book of Exploration

by Ray Howgego

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
360 PAGES

Author of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Exploration, Howgego here chooses 150 of the most significant journeys, setting the stories alongside period illustrations, maps, journal entries and photographs. (EXP74, $50.00)

Brazilian Adventure

by Peter Fleming

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
384 PAGES

A classic and very entertaining account of a 3,000-mile quest through the Amazon in search of a missing English colonel, first published in 1933. (AMZ55, $16.95)

Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, And Survival

by Daniel Jaffee

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
331 PAGES

This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of fair trade. (GEN464, $26.95)

Call of the North Wind

by Marlin Bree

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1996
PAPER
232 PAGES

A newspaperman and sailor, Bree combines his love of cold weather, storms and history in this enthralling yachtsman's account of adventures aboard a 20-foot sloop on Lake Superior. (GLK21, $16.95)

Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole

by Andre Malaurie

EXPLORATION
2001
HARD COVER
336 PAGES

A handsome, oversize memoir and celebration of the Inuit by the French polar explorer (Last Kings of Thule), featuring 300 of Malaurie's color photographs spanning 50 years in the Arctic. Malaurie became the first Frenchman to reach the Pole by dogsled in 1951. (ARC109, $60.00)

Can You Survive Antarctica?

by Rachael Hanel

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
112 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

You choose what you'll do next in this interactive survival adventure for ages 8-10. (ANT348, $6.95)

Cape Horn

by Felix Riesenberg | William A. Briesemeister

EXPLORATION
1985
HARD COVER
450 PAGES

Magellan, Drake and Darwin are all covered in Captain Riesenberg's lively tale of exploration and discovery, first publsihed in 1939. A master mariner, Reisenberg draws on his own long association with seafaring and the sea. (PAT10, $39.95)

Captain Blood

by Michael Curtiz

EXPLORATION
2005
DVD

A re-issue of the 1935 Erol Flynn swashbuckler. (CRB198, $19.97)

Captain Cook's Endeavour, Anatomy of the Ship

by Karl Heinz Marquardt

EXPLORATION
2002
HARD COVER
136 PAGES

This superbly illustrated and detailed overview of the ship and its history includes a scale plan. (WLD203, $35.00)

Captain James Cook

by Richard Hough

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1997
PAPER
398 PAGES

This fine, vividly written narrative includes a gripping account of Cook's discoveries throughout the Pacific. (PAC24, $18.95)

The Challenge of K2, A History of the Savage Mountain

by Richard Sale

EXPLORATION
2012
HARD COVER
227 PAGES

Sale traces the climbing history of K2 over the last 150 years in vivid detail in this absorbing account of often disasaterour attempts to summit the world's second highest mountain. (HML105, $39.95)

Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise

by Kirkpatrick Sale

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
464 PAGES

A new edition of this wide-ranging and lucid portrait of the man and the legends surrounding him, originally published in 1990. Columbus is no hero in Sale's view but rather a sea-faring adventurer in search of glory, gold and god. (USA134, $19.95)

The Climb, Tragic Ambitions on Everest

by Anatoli Boukreev

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
297 PAGES

An eyewitness account of the 1996 tragedy by Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev. (HML29, $7.99)

Climbing Everest, Tales of Triumph and Tragedy on the World's Highest Mountain

by Audrey Salkeld | Jennifer Emmett

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Six true tales of mountaineering on Everest, for kids 10 and older. (HML56, $21.00)

Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness

by Peter Matthiessen

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1987
PAPER
280 PAGES
FAVORITE

Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego. (SAM02, $17.00)

Cold Front, Conflict Ahead in Arctic Waters

by David Fairhall

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
352 PAGES

Fairhall's clear-sighted and penetrating investigation of the Arctic's pivotal role in international relations places the polar region in its historical, political and legal context. (ARC306, $26.00)

Cold, The Record of an Antarctic Sledge Journey

by Laurence McKinley Gould

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
258 PAGES
CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

Published by Carelton College, where Gould was president, This new ediuon of Gould's riveting account of adventure with Richard E. Byrd includes historic images from the original 1931 edition and materials at the National Archives. (ANT358, $16.95)

The Coldest Crucible, Arctic Exploration and American Culture

by Michael F. Robinson

EXPLORATION
2006
HARD COVER
200 PAGES

A cultural history of the emblematic voyages, often military, of Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Hall, Adolphus Greely, Walter Wellman, Robert Peary, Frederick Cook and other 19th-century American adventurers. (ARC189, $42.50)

The Coldest March, Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition

by Susan Solomon

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
383 PAGES

Solomon draws on extensive meteorological data and her own experience as an atmospheric scientist in the Antarctic in this exhaustively researched and fresh account of Scott's last expedition. (ANT154, $19.95)

Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America

by Chri Bacon

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
400 PAGES

In this wide-ranging analysis, contributors review the historical, political, economic and agro-ecological processes of the coffee industry. (GEN462, $30.00)

Conquering the Desert of Death, Across the Taklamakan

by Charles Blackmore | Peter Hopkirk

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
268 PAGES

Blackmore's vivid account of tenacity and courage is all the better for its matter of fact detail and generous credit to the Uyghur camel handlers who made it possible. (CAS68, $16.95)

Cook and Peary, The Polar Controversy Resolved

by Robert M. Bryce

EXPLORATION
1997
HARD COVER
1152 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A massive and massively detailed book, the most thorough examination yet of Peary and Cook's competing claims to have been the first-ever at the North Pole. (ARC44, $50.00)

Cook, The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook

by Nicholas Thomas

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
464 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

The vivid, richly detailed story of the three great voyages of Cook -- and a superb portrait of the man. Thomas, a British anthropologist, plumbs the extensive literature of Cook for anecdote and telling detail. (PAC141, $18.95)

The Coolest Race on Earth, Mud, Madmen, Glaciers, and Grannies at the Antarctica Marathon

by John Hanc

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER

A reflection on the challenges and pleasures posed by the Antarctic landscape, and the people who embark to run across it. From quirky runningmates to passing penguins and melting glaciers, Hanc recalls his marathons with light-hearted reverence. (ANT289, $22.95)

Crevasse Roulette, The First Trans-Antarctic Crossing 1957-58

by Jon Stephenson

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
192 PAGES

The expedition geologist's account of the British Commonwealth-sponsored Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) of 1957-58, under the leadership of Dr Vivian Fuchs, which completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. (ANT304, $49.95)

Crossing Antarctica

by Will Steger | Jon Bowermaster

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
312 PAGES

Steger and Bowermaster's now classic account of their 3,700-mile Trans-Antarctic expedition, the first crossing of the continent on foot. (ANT321, $15.95)

Crossing Paths, Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild

by Craig Childs

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
256 PAGES

Adventurer and naturalists Craig Childs vividly describes 23 meetings with the animals of the American desert, from camel to rainbow trout. (SWU170, $14.95)

Crossing the Heart of Africa, An Odyssey of Love and Adventure

by Julian Smith

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
336 PAGES

Smith retraces the 1988 journey of Ewart Grogan, a 4,500-mile trek from Mozambique across the Rift Valley to the wilds of Sudan, interweaving his own adventures with that of the 24-year-old, besotted English explorer. (AFR281, $14.99)

The Cruise of the Corwin

by John Muir | William Frederic Bade

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
320 PAGES

An account of an 1881 voyage with Muir and others in search of the Jeanette Expedition, this book is also an eyewitness report of little-known lands including the Chukchi Peninsula, Diomede, Wrangel and Herald islands. (ALA76, $18.95)

The Cruise of the Snark

by Jack London

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
320 PAGES

A facsimile edition of London's richly evocative account of his ambitious 1906-7 voyage aboard a 43-foot ketch from San Francisco to Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tuomotos, Fiji and the Solomon Islands with his wife and two crew members. With 119 original photographs of places and people. (PAC17, $14.95)

The Crystal Horizon

by Reinhold Messner | Jill Neate | Audrey Salkeld

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
322 PAGES

Messner's account of the first successful solo ascent of Everest, which he accomplished without the aid of supplemental oxygen in 1980. (HML69, $29.95)

The Curve of Time

by Muriel Wylie Blanchet

EXPLORATION
1993
PAPER
170 PAGES
FAVORITE
OUT OF PRINT

Blanchet's delightful, unlikely account of life aboard a 25-foot ketch with her young family. It's a funny, vivid account of Vancouver Island, full of memorable detail on people and place. (PNW48, $15.95)

Dancing on Ice

by Jeremy Scott

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
272 PAGES

Scott paints an enthralling portrait of both the Inuit and the Brideshead generation of young Englishmen, in this tale of the search for an Arctic air route between Europe and America. (ARC245, $14.95)

Deep Atlantic: Life, Death, and Exploration in the Abyss

by Richard Ellis

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
400 PAGES

A lively history of submersibles and what they have discovered in the ocean depths. (OCE14, $18.95)

Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science

by Dian Olson Belanger

EXPLORATION
2006
HARD COVER
494 PAGES

Belanger draws on interviews, memoirs, and official records in this comprehensive history of U.S. participation in the 1957-1958 International Geographysical Year, which brought 11 nations together on the Antarctic continent (and prefigured the Antarctic Treaty). (ANT241, $29.95)

Deep-Ocean Journeys, Discovering New Life at the Bottom of the Sea

by Cindy Lee Van Dover

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
208 PAGES

The author recounts her research in the great depths of the ocean. (OCE15, $14.00)

The Desert and the Sown

by Gertrude Bell | Rosemary O'Brien

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
368 PAGES

A fierce explorer and archaeologist, lyrical writer and cunning politician, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) spent much of her life traveling throughout present-day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan & Israel. (MDE59, $12.95)

Desert Divers

by Sven Lindqvist

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
144 PAGES

A lyrical account of Lindqvist's travels through the Sahara, taking as its theme the stereotypes and racial prejudices of Andre Gide, Antoine de St. Exupery and other literary idols who found inspiration in the desert. (NAF12, $12.95)

The Desert Road to Turkestan

by Owen Lattimore

EXPLORATION
1996
PAPER
384 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Originally published in 1927. Lattimore recounts his daredevil journey by camel caravan through the high steppes of China's unknown Gobi. (CAS14, $18.00)

The Devil's Teeth

by Susan Casey

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
304 PAGES

This is not the book you'd want to read before your next diving trip. Casey's high adrenaline account features, for example, her stint with surfer-biologists Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle in the water the great whites off Farallon Island. Dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth," the nickname for these remote islands off the California coast becomes abundantly clear. (OCE173, $15.99)

Did Marco Polo Go to China?

by Frances Wood

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
208 PAGES

A critical look at the manuscripts and evidence regarding this most famous journey. (CAS28, $38.00)

Disaster at the Pole, The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole

by Wilbur Cross

EXPLORATION
2002
HARD COVER
316 PAGES

A thrilling account of the crash of the airship Italia in 1928 and the political aftermath in an increasingly fascist Europe. (ARC84, $24.95)

The Discoverers

by Daniel Boorstin

EXPLORATION
1985
PAPER
745 PAGES

This wide-ranging and readable account of exploration by Daniel Boorstin includes a chapter on some of the great sea voyages, including Magellan's voyage to Tierra del Fuego and Cook's extraordinary journey into the Southern Ocean. (EXP01, $18.95)

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

by Glynis Ridley

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
291 PAGES

Ridley (Clara's Grand Tour) delivers rich historical drama in this sparkling biography of the young French peasant -- and knowledgable plantswoman in her own right -- who disguised herself as a teenage boy to join her lover, the brilliant, wily botanist Philibert Commerson, on commander Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's 1765 expedition around the world. (FRN995, $15.00)

The Discovery of Slowness

by Sten Nadolny | Ralph Freedman

LITERATURE
2005
PAPER
325 PAGES

A late 20th century fictional biography of the 19th century polar explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), a man who makes history by discovering the power of his own slowness. (ARC59, $16.95)

The Discovery of the Titanic

by Robert D. Ballard

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
336287 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

The first-hand account of Dr. Ballard's quest to find the Titanic. (OCE22, $13.99)

Discovery, The Quest for the Great South Land

by Miriam Estensen

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
286 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

In this engaging narrative history Estensen traces the idea and discovery of Australia from Greek philosophers to Captain James Cook's voyage of 1755. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. (AUS82, $14.95)

Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs, A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews

by Ann Bausum

EXPLORATION
2000
HARD COVER
64 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Bausum's absorbing biography of Chapman Andrews, one of the greatest fossil hunters, features archival photographs of daring camel-and-car Central Asiatic Expedition to the Gobi, which made big news in the 1920s (bringing back the first dinosaur eggs ever discovered). (MGL26, $17.95)

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

by Alfred W. Crosby

NATURAL HISTORY
2004
PAPER
370 PAGES

The story of how early explorers, colonists and settlers reshaped our biological world. (NAT22, $30.00)

Edge of the Jungle

by William Beebe

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
303 PAGES

A collection of 12 essays on the Amazon and its ecology and wildlife. A scientist-explorer with the soul of a poet, Beebe wrote dozens of books about his adventures in tropical America and Guyana. (AMZ75, $17.95)

Eiger Dreams, Ventures Among Men and Mountains

by Jon Krakauer

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
192 PAGES

A collection of some of Krakauer's (Into Thin Air) best journalism, these stories and essays focus on the mindset and determination of world-class mountaineers, including Alpine and Himalayan climbers. (ALP10, $14.95)

Eight Feet in the Andes

by Dervla Murphy

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
274 PAGES

The indomitable Murphy treks 1,300 miles through the Andes (with a mule) on the trail of the conquistadors in this spirited account. (AND07, $15.95)

An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

by Edward Larson

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
326 PAGES

In this fresh new history, made concrete by his own Antarctic travels, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larson places the famed expeditions of Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton and the Heroic Age in the larger context of Edwardian politics and society, showing science to be an integral part of the whole Antarctic enterprise. (ANT337, $28.50)

Encounters at the End of the World

by Werner Herzog

EXPLORATION
2008
DVD

Ever the iconoclast, Herzog eschews the nature - the usual focus of polar docs - and looks instead at the eccentric mix of characters who live and work in Antarctica, in this beautiful ode to the human yearning for exploration. (ANT292, $27.98)

Endurance, An Epic of Polar Adventure

by Frank Worsley | Patrick O'Brian

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
320 PAGES

A 1931 memoir by the captain of the Endurance, the companion to Shackleton's Boat Journey. (ANT73, $15.95)

Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
280 PAGES
FAVORITE

Lansing's gripping day-by-day story of Shackleton's legendary perseverance is essential reading for any Antarctic traveler; it captures all the fortitude, drama and cheer of this most famous Antarctic expedition. (ANT03, $14.95)

The Endurance, Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by Caroline Alexander

EXPLORATION
1998
HARD COVER
160 PAGES

A retelling of the ill-fated expedition featuring 170 well chosen photographs by Shackleton's expedition photographer Frank Hurley -- many previously unpublished. (ANT67, $35.00)

Epic Climbs

by John Cleare

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
64 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Discover how mountaineers achieved the first summit of five legendary peaks -- the Eiger, K2, Everest, McKinley, and the Matterhorn. All the tragedy and thrill of these historic climbs are related with the aid of fascinating photos, illustrations, diagrams, and maps. The book features several fold-out full-color posters. (EXP89, $19.99)

Epic Voyages

by Robyn Mundy

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
64 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This colorful book introduces the amazing feats of intrepid nautical explorers (Magellan, Cook, Shackleton, Heyerdahl, and Chichester) in dozens of photos, illustrations, and maps -- including a number of fantastic fold-out posters. (EXP88, $19.99)

Eric Shipton, The Six Mountain Travel Books

by Eric Shipton

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
800 PAGES

Shipton's extraordinary adventures in the mountains of the Himalayas, East Africa, Central Asia and Patagonia, now in paper. (EXP12, $34.95)

The Essential Lewis and Clark

by Landon Y. Jones | Meriwether Lewis | William Clark

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
224 PAGES

Edited by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, this compact book features well-chosen selections from Lewis and Clark's journals focusing on natural history, people and landscapes of the West. (PNW70, $13.99)

Everest

by David Breashears

EXPLORATION
1998
DVD

The stunning IMAX film of an Everest expedition by David Breashears and his team, filmed at the same time as the 1996 disaster recounted in John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." DVD format. (HML67, $19.99)

Everest, A Mountaineering History

by Walter Unsworth

EXPLORATION
2000
HARD COVER
736 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A classic history of mountaineering, updated through 1998 for this third edition. (NPL38, $45.00)

Everest, Expedition to the Ultimate

by Reinhold Messner | Audrey Salkeld

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
288 PAGES

In 1978, Messner and Peter Habler climbed Everest without using supplemental oxygen. This is Messner's frank account of their very difficult -- but ultimately successful -- climb. (HML49, $24.95)

Everest, The Mountaineers Anthology IV

by Peter Potterfield

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
240 PAGES

A collection of eyewitness accounts. (NPL49, $16.95)

Everest, the West Ridge

by Thomas F. Hornbein

EXPLORATION
1980
PAPER
194 PAGES

A vivid, moving personal account of the American expedition to Everest in 1963. (HML10, $19.95)

Exploration Fawcett

by Col. Percy Fawcett

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
368 PAGES

Colonel Fawcett's classic account of exploring the Matto Grosso, as complied by his son. Fawcett disappeared on an expedition in 1925. (AMZ81, $15.95)

Exploration of Africa, From Cairo to the Cape

by Ann Hugon

EXPLORATION
1993
PAPER
173 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

This jewel of a book chronicles the 19th-century exploration of Africa with hundreds of contemporary paintings and prints, brief chapters on the expeditions, and a very useful chronology. Livingstone, Burton and others are featured in a series of journal excerpts. (AFR03, $15.95)

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons

by John Wesley Powell

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
397 PAGES

The classic tale of adventure and exploration of the rivers and canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau, originally published in 1875 -- and still terrific reading for any traveler to the Grand Canyon. (USW80, $16.00)

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon

by William Herndon | Gary Kinder

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
343 PAGES

An original account of 19th-century exploration of the Amazon by Captain Herndon, who traveled from Lima to the Pacific coast of Brazil. (AMZ67, $14.00)

Explorations into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935

by Michael Leahy

EXPLORATION
1991
PAPER
253 PAGES

The tale of a young man in search of excitement and gold in the interior of Papua New Guinea. (NGA10, $34.95)

Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779

by James Cook | A. Grenfell Price | Geoffrey C. Ingleton

EXPLORATION
1971
PAPER
292 PAGES

The editors have chosen well from Cook's own journals of his three great voyages, highlighting his many historic discoveries and encounters. (PAC160, $16.95)

Explorations, Great Moments of Discovery from the Royal Geographical Society

by Royal Geographical Society

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
340 PAGES

Sometimes words aren't enough. This gift-worthy compendium, drawing on the archives of the Royal Geographical Society, features 300 photographs, many in color, some never before published, of the great expeditions, explorers and places, including an excellent section on polar exploration. (EXP34, $35.00)

The Explorer's Eye, First-Hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration

by Fergus Fleming | Annabel Merullo | Michael Palin

EXPLORATION
2005
HARD COVER
264 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A gripping tale of 50 heroes and explorers from Alexander Von Humboldt to Robert Peary, Jacques Cousteau and Neil Armstrong. Fleming once again dishes up surprises, telling quotes and even-more-telling photographs in this collection of diary excerpts, quotes and archival illustrations. Well done indeed. (EXP40, $45.00)

The Explorers of South America

by Edward Goodman

EXPLORATION
1992
PAPER
408 PAGES

A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. (SAM10, $26.95)

Explorers of the Amazon

by Anthony Smith

EXPLORATION
1994
PAPER
344 PAGES

In this well told overview of the region, Anthony Smith presents a history of exploration of the Amazon, scientific and otherwise. (AMZ31, $37.50)

Explorers of the Infinite

by Maria Coffey

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER

The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes. (GEN470, $26.95)

Explorers Wanted! In the Jungle

by Simon Chapman

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
128 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Learn the facts and myths of the Amazon rain forest in this fun exploration book for middle schoolers. (AMZ101, $5.99)

Explorers, Great Tales of Adventure and Endurance

by DK Publishing

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
360 PAGES

Fifty of the world's great explorers come to life in first-person accounts, rare maps and hundreds of photographs in this visual compendium published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Geographical Society. (EXP83, $40.00)

Exploring for Shipwrecks

by K.C. Smith

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
64 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An introduction to shipwreck archaeology for middle schoolers. (OCE65, $8.95)

A Fabulous Kingdom, Exploration in the Arctic

by Charles Officer | Jake Page

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
228 PAGES

A short history of Arctic exploration from Pythagoras to Nansen, Amundsen, and Peary. (ARC136, $19.95)

Fallen Giants

by Stewart Weaver | Maurice Isserman

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
592 PAGES

Subtitled A history of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, this book chronicles the many climbs and the teams of climbers who made them, evoking powerfully the bonds of fellowship between climbers. With maps and many illustrations. (HML85, $39.95)

The Far Traveler, Voyages of a Viking Woman

by Nancy Marie Brown

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
320 PAGES

Brown's intriguing account of the life of the young Viking woman Gudrid sheds light on early Norse settlements in Iceland, Newfoundland and beyond. It's an archaeological mystery, a history of ancient seamanship and a biography all rolled into one. (VIK26, $15.00)

The Farfarers, Before the Norse

by Farley Mowat

HISTORY
2011
PAPER
377 PAGES

A rabble-rouser by nature, Mowat posits that a group of Europeans, whom he calls the Albans, may have come to America hundreds of years before the Vikings in this original and provocative history of Atlantic exploration. (VIK10, $16.95)

Farthest North

by Fridtjof Nansen

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
678 PAGES

The great Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen's classic account of the voyage of the Fram, originally published in 1897, interspersed with dozens of original photographs. (ARC60, $17.95)

The Fast Runner, Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat

by Michael Robert Evans

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
192 PAGES

Evans shows the culture, history and traditions of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic in this behind-the-scenes look at the making of the remarkable Atanarjuat, filmed on location on Baffin Island, directed, acted and performed in Inuktitut. (ARC255, $19.95)

Fatal Journey, The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson

by Peter Mancall

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
320 PAGES

Mancall's account of Hudson's last, great voyage, a quest for the elusive Northwest passage tackles the mystery of his death, set adrift by his mutinous crew in the southern reached of what is now called Hudson Bay after a winter trapped in the ice. (CND330, $16.95)

Fatal Passage, The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot

by Ken McGoogan

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
328 PAGES

A compelling biography of the Scottish explorer who pioneered Inuit methods, completed the Northwest Passage and found Franklin. (ARC118, $15.95)

The Fellowship of Ghosts, Travels in the Land of Midnight Sun

by Paul Watkins

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
233 PAGES

Novelist Watkins tries his hand at travel, interweaving a memoir of his own experiences in Norway with those of early eccentric visitors. His solo wanderings also take into account the beautiful Norwegian countryside, with vivid descriptions of dramatic cliffs and expansive snowfields. (NOR35, $16.00)

The Field Book of a Jungle Wallah: Being a Description of the Shore, River and Forest Life in Sarawa

by Charles Hose

EXPLORATION
1986
PAPER
392 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A naturalist, ethnologist and longtime resident of Sarawak, Hose is a down-to-earth guide to the nature and people of the region. Written with insight, humor and affection. A classic, first published in 1929. (BRN08, $8.95)

The First Crossing of Greenland

by Fridtjof Nansen

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
400 PAGES

Nansen's account of his 1888 Greenland journey by ski and sledge with five companions, the first successful expedition across the Greenland icecap. (ARC132, $29.95)

First Footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar

by Richard Francis Burton

EXPLORATION
1987
PAPER
276 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

The original amazing account of Burton's explorations in North and East Africa, including his visit to the forbidden city of Harar. This book provides great insight into the mind of the Victorian explorer. (AFR21, $21.95)

A First Rate Tragedy, Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole

by Diana Preston

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
269 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Preston tackles the classic questions of Scott's judgment and character with insight. (ANT53, $17.95)

Footsteps on the Ice, The Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Paine, Second Byrd Expedition

by M. L Paine

EXPLORATION
2007
HARD COVER
368 PAGES

Paine's diaries represent the only published contemporary account written from the inside the dramatic rescue of Byrd from Bolling Advance Weather Base located 115 miles inland. (ANT259, $34.95)

A for Antarctica

by Jonathan Chester

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
32 PAGES
YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
OUT OF PRINT

With Jonathan's Chester usual playfulness and wit, and a good selection of color photographs, this alphabet book introduces an awful lot of information about Antarctic wildlife, science and geography. (ANT85, $8.95)

Four Against the Arctic, Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World

by David Roberts

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER

Roberts pieces together the gripping tale of four Russian walrus hunters stranded on Svalbard. (ARC210, $19.99)

The Four Voyages

by J. M. Cohen | Christopher Columbus

EXPLORATION
1992
PAPER
320 PAGES

Christopher Columbus's own accounts of his monumental discoveries (CRB129, $15.00)

The Franz Josef Land Archipelago, E. B. Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899

by E.B. Baldwin | P.J. Capelotti

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
200 PAGES

The previously unpublished journal of Arctic explorer Evelyn Briggs Baldwin (1862-1933), second in command on the first American expedition to Franz Josef Land. (ARC146, $49.95)

Frost on My Moustache, The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer

by Tim Moore

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2001
PAPER
280 PAGES

In this inspired folly, a British comic heads to Iceland, Spitsbergen and other northern locales in pursuit of a fictitious Arctic hero. (ARC74, $16.99)

Frozen in Time, The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

by Owen Beattie | John Geiger

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
185 PAGES

An exhaustive examination of the evidence surrounding the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition. Beattie and Geiger, a forensic anthropologist and historian, build a credible tale of the disappearance of the expedition. (ARC81, $22.95)

The Frozen Ship, The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration

by Sarah Moss

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
244 PAGES

Moss demolishes cherished myths of the golden age of polar exploration -- and retells many of the greatest stories -- in this elegantly written, revisionist account of the cult of heroism. (ARC206, $13.95)

The Future of Ice, A Journey into Cold

by Gretel Ehrlich

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
200 PAGES

The marvelous Ehrlich (This Cold Heaven) continues her fascination with out-of-the-way places with this account of journeys to the ends of the earth, including chapters set in Patagonia and Spitsbergen. The book is not so much about place as the experience of cold. (ANT215, $13.95)

Galapagos, World's End

by William Beebe

EXPLORATION
1988
PAPER
442 PAGES

This wry, wonderfully evocative account of a 1924 scientific expedition includes an excellent chapter on the human history of the Galapagos. (GPS01, $18.95)

The Gates of Hell, Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage

by Andrew Lambert

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
428 PAGES

In this re-examination of the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage, Lambert shows the savvy, stamina and navigational acumen of the great explorer. (ARC249, $22.00)

The Gentleman in the Parlour

by Somerset Maugham

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2005
PAPER
300 PAGES

Maugham's much-loved portrait of the land and people of Burma circa 1925. (SEA05, $18.95)

Ghosts of Cape Sabine, The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition

by Leonard F. Guttridge

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
320 PAGES

Abandoned to their fate, all but six of the 25 men of the Greely Expedition died before their much-delayed rescue at "Starvation Camp" on Pym Island in the Canadian Arctic in 1883. (ARC71, $26.95)

Ghosts of Everest, The Search for Mallory & Irvine

by Jochen Hemmleb | Eric Simonson | Larry Johnson

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
208 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

You may have seen the pictures. This is the illustrated, comprehensive account of the successful expedition to determine the fate of George Mallory, who disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. (HML39, $24.95)

The Gold-Mines of Midian

by Richard Burton

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
416 PAGES

An account of the intrepid Burton's 1877 two-week journey to the deserts of Northwest Arabia in search of the source of King Solomon's gold. (ARB77, $10.95)

Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself

by Carmella Van Vleet

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
144 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Thirty fun, Egypt-themed crafts projects, related to topics like mummies, the Pyramids, farming and hieroglyphs. (EGY191, $14.95)

Great Exploration Hoaxes

by Jan Morris | David Roberts

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
256 PAGES

The story behind the first-ever claims for the North Pole, Mount McKinley and eight other expeditions that have landed in controversy. (EXP09, $19.00)

Great Exploration Hoaxes

by Jan Morris | David Roberts

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
256 PAGES

The story behind the first-ever claims for the North Pole, Mount McKinley and eight other expeditions that have landed in controversy. (EXP09, $19.00)

The Great Explorers

by Hanbury-Tenison, Robin

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
304 PAGES

Jammed with beautiful archival photographs and illustrations, specially commissioned maps and concise accounts of the great explorers, this sumptuous book captures the spirit of discovery from Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan and David Livingstone to Amelia Earhart and Neil Armstrong. (EXP79, $39.95)

Great White South

by Herbert Ponting | Roland Huntford

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
305 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Ponting's classic and often revealing account account of Scott's last expedition. (ANT94, $18.95)

Greenland Expedition, Where Ice is Born

by Lonnie Dupre | Will Steger

EXPLORATION
2000
HARD COVER
159 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An illustrated account of a 15-month expedition by dog sled and kayak around Greenland -- a 3,200-mile odyssey using traditional modes of transport. With hundreds of excellent large color photographs and maps. (ARC96, $24.95)

A Guide to the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean

by Mark D. Spalding | Sylvia Earle

FIELD GUIDE
2004
PAPER

A diver's guide and atlas of coral reefs of the Caribbean (CRB176, $28.95)

H. W. Tilman, The Seven Mountain-Travel Books

by H. W. Tilman

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
896 PAGES

This omnibus edition of Tilman's brilliant, marvelous accounts of high altitude adventure includes The Ascent of Nanda Devi. (HML94, $34.95)

Half Moon, Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World

by Douglas Hunter

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
336 PAGES

Just in time for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's remarkable voyage, sailor, scholar, and storyteller Douglas Hunter explores all the difficulty, personalities, backstage drama and import of the 1609 adventure that put New York on the map. (NYS91, $18.00)

The Happy Isles of Oceania

by Paul Theroux

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
480 PAGES
FAVORITE

The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas in this wickedly funny, wide-ranging tale. (PAC03, $15.95)

The Hard Way Around

by Geoffrey Wolff

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
240 PAGES

Geoffrey Wolff captures all the drama and gumption of his audacious hero's life in this enchanting biography of Joshua Slocum, first man to complete a solo circumnavigation. A great admirer of Sailing Alone Around the World, Wolff includes long, affecting passages from Slocum's masterpiece, never out of print since its publication in 1909. (OCE159, $15.00)

The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, Encountering the Tlingit and Eskimo in 1899

by George Bird Grinnell | Polly Burroughs | Victoria Wyatt

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER

With original illustrations from the 1899 Harriman Expedition, this handsome collection of essays features George Bird Grinnell's valuable account of the people and culture of the region. (ALA246, $14.95)

The Hastings

by Replogle

EXPLORATION
GLOBE

A 12-inch antique globe with a solid hardwood base in a walnut finish. (GLB08, $68.00)

The Heart of the Antarctic and South

by Ernest Shackleton

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
768 PAGES

This omnibus edition, with a forward by Beau Riffenburgh, includes Shackleton's account of both the Nimrod and Endurance expeditions. (ANT92, $16.95)

The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography

by David Hempleman-Adams | Emma Stuart | Sophie Gordon

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
240 PAGES
NEW

Taking place one hundred years ago, during the reign of King George V, it's hard to imagine the stir surrounding these two great expeditions, caused in part by these captivating and haunting images, presented here along with essays, maps, paintings and other ephemera from the Royal Collection. Polar explorer David Hempleman-Adams provides the evocative captions, giving depth and context. (ANT298, $47.50)

The Heart of the World, A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise

by Ian Baker | The Dalai Lama

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
544 PAGES

Climber and Buddhist scholar Ian Baker's account of discovery in the upper reaches of the Tsangpo Gorge in the heart of the Tibetan Himalayas. Before Baker's expedition, the gorge -- a mystical sanctuary of Tibetan Buddhism -- had not been explored since 1925. (TBT78, $18.00)

Hell on Ice, The Saga of the Jeanette

by Edward Ellsberg

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
421 PAGES

This limited edition of the dramatic fictionalized account of the doomed Jeanette Expedition and their time in the New Siberian Islands includes a CD of the original 1938 radio play by Orson Welles's Mercury Theater. (ARC138, $27.95)

Hello Britain! Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Your Holiday in Britain

by Rebecca Welby

EXPLORATION
2006
FLEXI-BOUND
60 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The sturdy covers of this interactive book are packed with fun activities for children aged 7 to 12. With puzzles, maps and games, Hola Britain! is sure to reward the natural curiosity of younger travelers, and provide plenty of fun for the whole family. (GBR669, $16.95)

High Adventure

by Sir Edmund Hillary

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
245 PAGES

A classic of 20th-century mountaineering, this 50th anniversary edition of young Hillary's personal account of his historic ascent of Everest, written the heady days after the celebrated climb, includes a new preface by the author. With black-and-white photos. Hillary modestly attributes his success to "a goodly share of imagination and plenty of energy." (NPL48, $19.95)

High Tartary

by Owen Lattimore | Orville Schell

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
360 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Lattomore's panoramic account of an eight-month journey, partly with his new wife, through the lands of Genghis Khan in 1926-1927. (CHN711, $15.00)

Hillary and Norgay's Mount Everest Adventure

by Jim Kerr

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
48 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The chronicle of the first summit of Everest. (HML88, $8.99)

Himalaya

by Eric Valli

EXPLORATION
2001
DVD

Filmed entirely in the Dolpo region using local villagers, this tale set in remote Nepal features fine performances against a breathtaking backdrop. (NPL55, $29.95)

Himalayan Enchantment, An Anthology

by Frank Kingdon-Ward

EXPLORATION
1990
HARD COVER
288 PAGES

An anthology by the great Himalayan explorer and plant-collector Frank Kingdon-Ward. (HML03, $19.95)

Himalayan Quest, Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants

by Ed Viesturs

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
176 PAGES

A photographic chronicle of the first American to scale all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters without the use of supplemental oxygen. (HML63, $21.95)

Historical Atlas of the Arctic

by Derek Hayes

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
208 PAGES

A handsome collection of 300 striking maps, most in glorious color and many presented here for the first time. Hayes provides captivating, scholarly commentary. (ARC135, $64.95)

Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest

by Derek Hayes

EXPLORATION
2001
HARD COVER
208 PAGES

An impressively researched, fascinating collection of maps covering exploration and discovery from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and the Yukon. (PNW119, $40.00)

A History of Arctic Exploration

by Juha Nurminen

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
349 PAGES

The ancient Inuit, Vikings, Vitus Bering, whalers, explorers and James Cook are all paid tribute in this sumptuously illustrated history, drawing on the collections of Helsinki's Nurminen Foundation. (ARC257, $60.00)

History of Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians

by Carl Lumholtz | Grant Shepherd

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
107 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An anthology of two of the great books on the region, Carl Lumholtz's "Unknown Mexico," an account of exploring in the region in the 1890s; and Grant Shepherd's beloved memoir of life at Hacienda San Miguel, "Silver Magnet." (MEX80, $19.95)

The History of Seafaring

by Juha Nurminen | Donald Johnson

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
344 PAGES

The challenges, science and development of navigation, seafaring and shipbuilding from the Phoenicians to modern navies and round-the-world sailing yachts are all revealed in this sumptuously illustrated history. (OCE166, $60.00)

Hitler's Sunken Secret

by Nova

EXPLORATION
2005
DVD

The Nova presentation of the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro, one of the most daring resistance operations of World War II, including the underwater search for the ferry. (NOR63, $19.95)

Home of the Blizzard, The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

by Douglas Mawson

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
438 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

This 1915 classic by explorer and Australian national hero Sir Douglas Mawson, one of the great stories of Antarctic adventure and exploration. (ANT65, $14.95)

Homeric Responses

by Gregory Nagy

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
1112 PAGES

A highly theoretical attempt at answering age-old questions regarding Homeric poetics. (GRE215, $25.00)

Honest Dogs, A Story of Triumph and Regret from the World's Greatest Sled Dog Race

by Brian Patrick O'Donoghue

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
335 PAGES

A wry, absorbing account of Brian Patrick O'Donoghue's valiant attempt to salvage his youth and honor in the 1998 Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race. (ALA206, $19.95)

Horatio Hornblower Collector's Edition

by A & E

EXPLORATION
2005
DVD

The Emmy Award-winning series. (CRB195, $79.95)

The Horizontal Everest, Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island

by Jerry Kobalenko

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
277 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A warm tribute to a very remote, cold place. Kobalenko combines tales of personal adventure, history and rumination with a handsome collection of photographs. (ARC115, $15.00)

Hoshino's Alaska

by Michio Hoshino

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
160 PAGES

This collection of Michio Hoshino's remarkable work showcases 145 of his color photographs of the land, seascapes and wildlife of Alaska. (ALA245, $24.95)

How High Can We Climb?, The Story of Women Explorers

by Jeanine Atkins

EXPLORATION
2005
HARD COVER
224 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An inspiring profiles of 43 daring women over the ages -- mountain climbers, explorers, and scientists -- ranging from Josephine Peary, to Sylvia Earle, Junko Tabei, and Ann Bancroft. (EXP37, $17.00)

How We Crossed the West

by Rosalyn Schanzer

EXPLORATION
1997
HARD COVER
48 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The adventures of Lewis and Clark are recast for ages 6-10 in this National Geographic picture book depicting the explorers and the people, wildlife and landscapes they encountered. (PNW40, $18.00)

Hudson

by Janice Weaver

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
64 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This biography of Henry Hudson focuses on his expeditions, discoveries and contributions. Geared toward ages 8-12. (NAM57, $22.95)

The Humboldt Current: 19th-Century Exploration and the Sources of American Envionmentalism

by Aaron Sachs

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
512 PAGES

Aaron Sachs takes on the towering figure of the early 19th-century scientist explorer, Alexander von Humbodt, revered by Darwin and celebrated in Europe and America, to trace the history of American exploration. (EXP43, $16.00)

I May Be Some Time, Ice and the English Imagination

by Francis Spufford

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
372 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An imaginative history of the myths, symbols and culture of British polar exploration -- and especially its focus on the martyr, suffering and death with a stiff upper lip. Fascinating. (ANT58, $19.95)

The Ice Balloon

by Alec Wilkinson

EXPLORATION
2012
HARD COVER
272 PAGES

New Yorker writer Wilkinson recounts in thrilling detail the ill-fated attempt by Swedish engineer and aeronaut Salomon August Andree to reach the North Pole from Svalbard by balloon in 1897. (ARC289, $25.95)

The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

by Jennifer Niven

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
402 PAGES

Nivens draws on diaries, journals and letters to reconstruct, month by month, the tragic fate of the ambitious Canadian Arctic Expedition in 1913-1918. Eleven men died. The charismatic, scene-stealing Stefannson (who blamed Captain Bob Bartlett and leaves the ship as soon as it is trapped in the ice) gets a good drubbing by Niven. (ARC130, $19.95)

Ice Story, Shackleton's Lost Expedition

by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel | Frank Hurley

EXPLORATION
1999
HARD COVER
128 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The amazing tale of Shackleton's expedition for 9 to 12-year-olds. (ANT87, $20.00)

Icebound, The Jeanette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole

by Leonard F. Guttridge

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
327 PAGES

The tale of being crushed in the ice and making it ashore on the New Siberian Islands. (ARC43, $22.95)

The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers

by Mary Morris | Larry O'Connor

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
256 PAGES

An anthology of mostly British and American women writing around the world, with diverse selections including Mary Wollenstonecraft, Edith Wharton, Rose Macaulay, Gertrude Bell and Freya Stark. With archival and color photographs throughout. (EXP29, $24.95)

In Farthest Burma

by Frank Kingdon-Ward

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
192 PAGES

A loving reprint of the famed climber, scholar, botanist and all-around explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward's chronicle of his travels along the eastern Irrawaddy River in Burma. (BMA46, $26.95)

In Search of Genghis Khan, An Exhilarating Journey on Horseback across the Steppes of Mongolia

by Tim Severin

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
272 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

This grand adventure across the steppes, one of Severin's many recreations of famous expeditions, mixes history, politics and travel in a compelling portrait of contemporary Mongolia. (MGL42, $16.95)

In Search of the Grand Canyon

by Mary Ann Fraser

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
80 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An account of John Wesley Powell's expedition down the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1869, written for readers ages 9-12. With drawings and photographs. (USW329, $12.95)

In Search of the South Pole

by Herbert Kari | Huw Lewis-Jones

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
192 PAGES

Kari Herbert (daughter of polar explorer Sir Wally) and husband Huw Lewis-Jones collared an international who's who of explorers, historians, scientists and polar experts for this irresistible portrait of place. It's a scrapbook of Antarctic exploration, featuring excerpts from the logbooks, journals and books, a timeline, color reproductions of period posters and other arcana. With 150 photographs, this new book is an essential reference for all Antarcticans. (ANT347, $29.95)

In Secret Mongolia

by Henning Haslund

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
366 PAGES

First published in 1934 as "Tents in Mongolia," Haslund's account of Sven Hedlin's 1927-30 Central Asiatic Expedition combines his tales of adventure and misadventure with notes on gods, myths and Shamans. (MGL13, $16.95)

In Shackleton's Footsteps, A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic

by Henry Worsley

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
288 PAGES

Henry Worsley and other descendents set out from Shackleton's hut at Cape Royd to celebrate the centenary of the 1908 Nimrod expedition, retracing the exact 870-mile route -- and going on to finish the last 97 miles that eluded Shackelton. Team leader Worsley's book explores the history of the original expedition and reasons behind its failure, while capturing the meticulous planning, fundraising and training for the new expedition. (ANT330, $24.95)

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

by Dennis Belliveau

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
256 PAGES

The companion book to the PBS series, this beautifully illustrated account documents Belliveau and O'Donnell's staggering 3,000-mile odyssey by jeep, train, rickshaw, horse, camel and foot across Asia. They intersperse their travels with quotes from Marco Polo and hundreds of color photographs of places, monuments and people they encountered. (ASA71, $32.95)

In the Land of White Death, An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

by Valerian Albanov | David Roberts | Jon Krakauer

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
243 PAGES

A Russian sailor trapped aboard a ship in the ice sets out over the pack for Franz Josef Land. (SIB16, $16.00)

In the Shadow of Denali

by Jonathan Waterman

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
208 PAGES

A classic of mountaineering, Jon Waterman's exhilarating account of doomed expeditions, solo ascents, the great Brad Washburn and many others documents the extraordinary power of North America's highest mountain. (ALA308, $16.95)

In Trouble Again

by Redmond O'Hanlon

EXPLORATION
1990
PAPER
272 PAGES
FAVORITE

As funny as he is insightful, O'Hanlon starts his comic masterpiece of a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon with a litany of the insects, protozoa, snakes and predators that can do you harm. (AMZ04, $13.95)

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan: Volume One

by John Lloyd Stephens

EXPLORATION
1969
PAPER
396 PAGES

The first volume of Stephens' 1841 account, an instant bestseller and still an excellent introduction to the people, culture and archaeology of Central America. It follows Stephens through Belize and Guatemala, with several chapters on Copan. With 127 engravings by Frederick Catherwood. We also carry Volume Two. ($14.95, Item MYA05) (MYA33, $16.95)

Innocents in the Arctic, The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition

by Colin Bull

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
272 PAGES

A marvelous account of adventure and scientific inquiry, glaciologist Colin Bull recounts his role in the 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition with humor and humility. Drawn from Bull's field notes, journals and published reports, this book paints a compelling portrait of what it means to be young and daring. (ARC176, $19.95)

Into Africa, The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

by Martin Dugard

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
340 PAGES

A nicely paced tale of the Scottish explorer and Stanley's headline-grabbing efforts to locate him. Dugard has done his homework well, drawing on a wide variety of sources to paint a lively and nuanced portrait of the two men. (AFR130, $15.95)

Into the Heart of Borneo

by Redmond O'Hanlon

EXPLORATION
1987
PAPER
190 PAGES

An absurd (and true) story of a biologist's journey into the mountains of Sarawak in search of the fabled Borneo rhino. O'Hanlon's entertaining account mixes plenty of humor, detail on local peoples and natural history. (BRN03, $14.00)

Into the Silence

by Wade Davis

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
656 PAGES

In this thrilling portrait of George Mallory and fellow climbers, Davis vividly recreates Britain's heroic attempts to scale Everest in the 1920s. (HML101, $35.00)

Into the Unknown, How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air

by Stewart Ross

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
96 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

With the help of fold-out cross sections, dramatic stories and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places and technology, readers can immerse themselves in 14 historic expeditions, from Leif Erikson's voyage to North America to Edmund Hillary's first summit of Mount Everest. (EXP87, $19.99)

Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

EXPLORATION
1997
HARD COVER
256 PAGES

A best-selling, minute-by-minute account of the 1996 disaster on Everest. (HML08, $28.00)

Into Thin Air, A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
360 PAGES

In this bestseller, climber and journalist Krakauer reconstructs a minute-by-minute account of what went wrong on the great mountain in 1996. (HML13, $15.00)

The Island Within

by Richard Nelson

EXPLORATION
1991
PAPER
284 PAGES

A beautifully written tribute to the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from the author's journals, this is an account of the natural and cultural history of an island in the waters of Haida Strait, with emphasis on the relationship between people and the land. (ALA17, $17.00)

Jenny Goes To Sea

by Esther Averill

EXPLORATION
2005
HARD COVER
126 PAGES
YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

Miss Jenny Linsky and her cat friends set forth on a round-the-world cruise aboard the good ship Sea Queen with their master Captain Tinker. (TVL81, $17.95)

John Muir's Last Journey, South to the Amazon and East to Africa

by Robert Michael Pyle | John Muir

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
352 PAGES

A collection of letters and notes on Muir's eight-month voyage in 1911-1912 to the Andes, Amazon, Southern and East Africa. (SAM78, $35.00)

Joseph Banks, A Life

by Patrick O'Brian

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1997
PAPER
328 PAGES

A biography of naturalist and explorer Joseph Banks. (AUS47, $20.00)

Journal of a Trapper

by Osborne Russell | Aubrey L. Haines

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
241 PAGES

A simply told account of the life of a fur trapper in the 1830s and 1840s, mainly in and around Yellowstone. It's both an eyewitness report from the heydey of fur trading and an engaging account of the region. (USW439, $18.95)

Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742

by Georg Wilhelm Steller | O. W. Frost

EXPLORATION
1994
PAPER
252 PAGES

The original account of the European discovery of Alaska, including a vivid description of the harrowing return voyage. (RUS63, $24.95)

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

by Frank Bergon

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
505 PAGES

An expanded version of the journals with more on the natural history and peoples encountered. (USW48, $17.00)

The Jungle and the Damned

by Hassoldt Davis | Lawrence Millman

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
306 PAGES

A colorful account of honeymooning in French Guiana, including visiting Devil's Island and canoeing 300 miles up the Maroni River to the border with Brazil, originally published in 1952. (SAM55, $16.95)

K2, Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

by David Roberts | Ed Viesturs

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER

Focusing on seven of the mountain's most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat tale of K2, raising questions of risk, ambition, loyalty, self-sacrifice -- and the price of glory. (HML111, $14.99)

K2, the Savage Mountain

by Charles H., M.D. Houston

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
184 PAGES

The remarkable first-hand account of the 1953 first American expedition, led by Dr. Houston. (HML108, $16.95)

K2, Triumph and Tragedy

by Jim Curran

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER

This is a tense account of disaster on the world's second highest mountain in 1986. The author was on the mountain when 13 climbers in 9 different expeditions died. (PKN05, $15.00)

Kilimanjaro, To the Roof of Africa

by David Breashears

EXPLORATION
2002
DVD

This strikingly beautiful celebration of Kilimanjaro, originally presented in IMAX theatres, focuses on the history, nature and beauty of the mountain along with the experiences of the trekkers. (EAF112, $19.99)

Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps

by Fergus Fleming

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
398 PAGES

Fleming spins lively tales of man against nature in this entertaining history of the eccentrics, adventurers and publicity-hounds who sought to conquer the Alps, including Whymper and his first ascent of the Matterhorn (where four of the seven-man team perished). (ALP16, $14.00)

Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft

by Thor Heyerdahl | F. H. Lyon

EXPLORATION
1990
PAPER
304 PAGES

The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 voyage sailing along the Humboldt and Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart from the sheer adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that Polynesians could have settled the region. With photographs. (PAC10, $5.99)

A Labyrinth of Kingdoms, 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa

by Stephen Kemper

EXPLORATION
2012
HARD COVER
432 PAGES
COMING IN JUNE

In this impressive true story, Steve Kemper shines a light on the travels of Heinrich Barth, who traveled 10,000 miles through North and Central Africa in the mid-19th century (AFR301, $28.95)

The Lake Regions of Central Africa

by Richard Francis Burton

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
572 PAGES

Burton's account of exploration between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika. (AFR98, $16.95)

Landmarks of The World Puzzle

by Chris Corr

EXPLORATION
2008
BOXED
YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

Packed in a sturdy cylinder, this brightly colored 63-piece world puzzle includes the name of the landmarks around the edge of each piece. (WLD182, $13.99)

Lands that Hold One Spellbound, A Story of East Greenland

by Spencer Appolonio

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
322 PAGES

An avid sailor, marine biologist and research fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, Appolonio writes with authority and enthusiasm of native settlements and the long history of exploration and adventure in icebound East Greenland. (ARC219, $39.95)

The Last Gentleman Adventurer

by Edward Beauclerk Maurice | Lawrence Millman

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
416 PAGES

Maurice's poignant tale of coming-of-age with the Hudson Bay Company in the Canadian Arctic in the 1930s. Posted to Pangnirtung as a remarkably unlikely 17-year-old recruit, Maurice grew into a man with the fur traders and Inuit of Baffin Island, earning the name of Issumatak (One Who Thinks). (ARC173, $14.95)

The Last Great Quest, Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice

by Max Jones

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
352 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A fresh look at exploration, empire and the memory of the British polar explorer. (ANT202, $35.00)

The Last Man on the Mountain

by Jennifer Jordan

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
302 PAGES

Jordan brings back with vivid clarity the life and death of middle-aged, inexperienced Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, who set out to become the first man to climb K2 in 1939. (HML109, $16.95)

The Last Place on Earth, Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole

by Roland Huntford

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
576 PAGES
FAVORITE

Igniting huge controversy when it first appeared, Huntford's rousing dual biography contrasts Amundsen's well-planned campaign to achieve the Pole with Scott's ill-fated quest. (ANT100, $15.95)

The Last Place on Earth, Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole

by Roland Huntford

EXPLORATION
2009
AUDIO CD
576 PAGES

British actor Tim Pigott-Smith reads Huntford's dramatic tale of hardship, technical challenge, political ambition and fortitude, interweaving the expeditions of Scott and Amundsen. Presented on 6 CDs, this abridged version runs 7.5 hours. (ANT303, $31.95)

The Last Season

by Eric Blehm

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
352 PAGES

Eric Blehm's account of the disappearance of experienced ranger Randy Morgenson in the wilderness of the Sierras is a tribute to the man and the natural beauty of the mountains. (CAL207, $14.99)

The Last Step, The American Ascent of K2

by Rick Ridgeway

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
304 PAGES

Ridgeway's riveting account of 67 days on the mountain and the first American summit with Louis Reichardt, Jim Wickwire and John Roskelley in September 1978. Ridgeway and companions pioneered the Northeast Ridge. (HML107, $21.95)

Let Heroes Speak, Antarctic Explorers, 1772-1922

by Michael Rosove

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
384 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

In this nicely written history, Rosove traces 150 years of Antarctic exploration from Captain James Cook and Bellingshausen, to the polar exploits of Mawson, Scott, Shackleton, Byrd and Ellsworth. Best of all, he quotes generously from the explorers themselves, drawing on journals, diaries and published accounts. (ANT122, $14.00)

Letters from Mexico

by Hernan Cortes

EXPLORATION
1987
PAPER
563 PAGES

The classic account of the conquistador who defeated Montezuma and conquered Mexico. (MEX61, $25.00)

Lewis & Clark, An Illustrated History

by Dayton Duncan | Ken Burns

EXPLORATION
1999
HARD COVER
248 PAGES

The handsomely produced companion volume to Ken Burns' PBS documentary film, featuring essays and 150 illustrations, most in full color. (PNW36, $45.00)

Lewis & Clark, Great Journey West

by National Geographic Society

EXPLORATION
2002
DVD

With stunning aerial cinematography and meticulous recreations, this 40-minute National Geographic special dramatizes the legendary early 19th-century expedition that crossed the uncharted North American West. (PNW217, $19.95)

Lewis and Clark, Partners in Discovery

by John E. Bakeless

EXPLORATION
1996
PAPER
498 PAGES

Applying his own original research and the journals of expedition members, Bakeless has put together an authoritative biography of the two explorers. (USW376, $14.95)

The Life and African Exploration of Dr. David Livingstone

by David Livingstone

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
656 PAGES

A reproduction of Livingstone's original 1876 report on his exploration of Africa. Includes lithographic illustrations and facsimiles of notebooks, diary entries and letters. (AFR192, $28.95)

Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering

by Sherry B. Ortner

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2001
PAPER
376 PAGES

A vividly written, scholarly study of the relationship between the Sherpas and the mountaineers who come to "conquer" the Himalayas. (TBT33, $29.95)

The Life of Captain James Cook

by John C. Beaglehole

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1974
PAPER
760 PAGES

The definitive biography of perhaps the greatest of the European explorers. (PAC01, $38.95)

Life, A Journey Through Time

by Frans Lanting

EXPLORATION
2006
HARD COVER
303 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

From fiery eruptions, geysers and stark geology, through single-celled organisms and fish, to the rise of amphibians and reptiles, birds, flowering plants and mammals, this is a splendid tale of biodiversity and wonder. (NAT110, $59.99)

The Long Walk

by Slavomir Rawicz

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
288 PAGES

Peter Weir's film adaptation of this classic tale of endurance, releasing nationwide in January. The harrowing tale of Slavomir Rawicz and six fellow prisoners, who marched out of a Siberian gulag across the Gobi and through China and Tibet over the Himalayas to British India. Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell and Ed Harris star in the film adaptation by Peter Weir. An Oscar contender, it Now in a handsome hardcover edition. (EXP82, $24.95)

Lost City of the Incas

by Hiram Bingham

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
286 PAGES
BEST SELLER
FAVORITE

This first-rate adventure story by the man who brought Machu Picchu to the attention of the world 100 years ago is not just a gripping tale of exploration and archaeology, it also sets the scene for any visitor to the site. Hugh Thomson (A Sacred Landscape, The Search for Ancient Peru) provides the introduction to this Centenary Edition. (AND05, $12.95)

Lost City, The Discovery of Machu Picchu

by Ted Lewin

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
48 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Caldecott-winning author Ted Lewin traveled in the footsteps of the 1911 explorer for this captivating tale of Hiram Bingham and the discovery of Machu Picchu, geared for ages 9-12. With detailed watercolor illustrations of Cuzco, the Urubamba Valley and Machu Picchu, it will appeal to the whole family. (PRU51, $17.99)

Lost Men, The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Expedition

by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
416 PAGES

The dramatic tale of Shackleton's support team, stranded at Cape Evans when their ship the Aurora was set adrift in a gale. Tyler-Lewis draws on a rich source of newly discovered journals and diaries, interviews and her own experiences in the Antarctic to bring the story to life. (ANT225, $15.00)

The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott

by David Wilson

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
192 PAGES

This gorgeous book of Scott's own photographs -- fought over, lost and forgotten -- supplemented by maps and incisive commentary, is a significant contribution to Antarctic history. Wilson's great uncle was expedition artist Edward Wilson, who died with Scott on his way back from the Pole. (ANT343, $35.00)

The Lost River

by Richard Bangs

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
288 PAGES

Richard Bangs recounts his encounters and experiences on wild rivers, including his first-run of Ethiopia's Tekeze (ETP31, $14.00)

The Lost Tribe, A Harrowing Passage into New Guinea's Heart of Darkness

by Edward Marriott

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
256 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Marriott tells of his "discovery" and experiences among the Liawep people. (NGA14, $13.00)

Lost World of the Kalahari

by Laurens van der Post

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
1986
PAPER
279 PAGES

Originally published in 1958, this poetic book is the story of a quest to find the San people in the remote desert. It has become a classic romanticized tale of an encounter between the literate European and "noble savage": mystical, captivating and a useful record of a time. (SAF24, $21.95)

Lost Worlds, Ruins of the Americas

by Arthur Drooker

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
160 PAGES

The sugar mills of St. John, Brimstone Hill Fortress in St. Kitts, Mitla, Teotihuacan, Chichen-Itza, Palenque, Tikal, Antigua, Copan, Chan Chan, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu are all included in this arresting visual survey, atmospherically photographed in black and white. (NAM68, $49.95)

Love and Obstacles, Stories

by Aleksandar Hemon

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
224 PAGES

A new book of linked stories by the author of the National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project. (WLD170, $15.00)

The Lure of the Labrador Wild

by Dillon Wallace

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
220 PAGES

Dillon's original account of a disastrous canoe expedition to the unmapped Ungava-Labrador Peninsula, originally published in 1905 -- and marvelously retold in the classic Great Heart. (CND369, $18.99)

Lure of the Southern Seas

by Susan Hunt

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
141 PAGES

Stunning watercolors and archival documents bring to life the career of Dumont d'Urville, French explorer of the Pacific and Antarctic. (PAC210, $49.95)

The Magnificent Mountain Women, Adventures in the Colorado Rockies

by Janet Robertson

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1991
PAPER
220 PAGES

A collection of biographical stories based on the adventures of Colorado's pioneering explorers, sportswomen, lady botanists and modern climbers, quite a colorful group. (USW199, $16.95)

The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and The Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1916

by Stuart E. Jenness

EXPLORATION
2004
HARD COVER
418 PAGES

A portrait of the young Australian Wilkins, expedition leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and the Canadian Arctic Expedition. (ARC177, $65.00)

Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918

by Michael Young

EXPLORATION
1999
HARD COVER
312 PAGES

An excellent collection of 200 previously unpublished photographs of the Trobriand Islanders. Organized thematically, Young includes extensive quotes from Malinowski's books and diaries. (PNG12, $57.50)

The Man Who Ate His Boots

by Anthony Brandt

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
448 PAGES

The enthralling tale of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, holy grail of 19th-century British exploration. (ARC246, $16.95)

The Many Landfalls of John Cabot

by Peter E. Pope

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER

A scholarly analysis of Cabot's journey and the debate over where he landed -- and what difference it might make to national identity. (NFL18, $23.95)

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World

by John Larner

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
288 PAGES

A scholarly, insightful study of the impact of the venetian merchant-explorer's impact on European ideas and knowledge of the world. (EXP22, $21.00)

Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado

by D. Graham Burnett

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
314 PAGES

A lively, well-illustrated account of the 19th-century exploration, mapping and British Imperial adventures in what is now Guyana. (SAM94, $37.50)

Matthew A. Henson's Historic Arctic Journey

by Matthew Henson | Deirdre Stam

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
232 PAGES

This Explorer's Club edition of Matthew Henson's polar exploits, originally published in 1912, includes a thoughtful overview of his life by editor Deirdre Stam and period photographs. Drawing on the Explorer's Club archives, it is published in commemoration of the centennial of Peary and Hanson's 1909 quest for the Pole. (ARC113, $19.95)

Mawson's Will, The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

by Leonard Bickel

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
261 PAGES

The classic tale of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911 journey back to camp after losing his two men, his dogs, and most of his food and equipment. (ANT121, $15.99)

Men & Gods in Mongolia

by Henning Haslund

EXPLORATION
1992
PAPER
358 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A first-person account of travels among the Torgut Mongols by the Swedish explorer who accompanied Sven Hedin on his exploration of Mongolia and Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s. (MGL16, $15.95)

Minox 8 X 42 Binoculars

by Minox

EXPLORATION
2005
GEAR
OUT OF PRINT

Birders take note! These rugged, water- and fog-proof binoculars, with features that you'd usually find in Leica or Zeiss, have whopping long eye-relief (19.5 mm, perfect for eyeglass wearers), close focus (8-feet) and, made of polycarbonate, weigh just 22.9 ounces. (STF28, $475.00)

Mont Blanc, Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps

by Stefano Ardito

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
228 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

With color and archival photographs, historic paintings and illustrations, this handsome book celebrates the history of climbing at Mont Blanc. (ALP37, $19.99)

Mount McKinley, The Conquest of Denali

by Bradford Washburn

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
206 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

One hundred and thirty glorious photographs of North America's highest mountain. (ALA95, $27.98)

Mountains of Madness, A Scientists's Odyssey in Antarctica

by John Long | Tim Bowden

EXPLORATION
2001
HARD COVER
250 PAGES

A lively account of two fossil hunting expeditions in Antarctica. (ANT143, $24.95)

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition, The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat

by Caroline Alexander

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
148 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

Sir Ernest Shackleton's most famous expedition, as told by his cat. (ANT56, $13.99)

My Attainment of the Pole

by Frederick A. Cook | Robert Bryce

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
624 PAGES

Cook's original, and much disputed, account of his expedition to the North Pole. This edition includes several new assessments of the dispute whether he ever made it to the Pole. (ARC100, $19.95)

My Life as an Explorer

by Sven Hedin | Anthony Brandt

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
546 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

One of the great adventure books of all time (it's on National Geographic's list of the 100 greatest, My Life as an Explorer chronicles the extraordinary feats of the indomitable Swede Sven Hedin (1865-1952) across Asia. (CAS06, $16.00)

The Mystery of Easter Island

by Katherine Routledge

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
404 PAGES

Captivating in its period detail, this record of a remarkable 1913 scientific voyage from Southampton to Easter Island includes unforgettable early impressions of the island. (EIL10, $16.95)

N by E

by Rockwell Kent | Edward Hoagland

EXPLORATION
1996
PAPER
282 PAGES

The classic account of a 1929 sailing voyage from Labrador to Greenland, illustrated with wood-block prints by the author on every other page. (ARC35, $22.95)

Nanda Devi, A Journey to the Last Sanctuary

by Hugh Thomson

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
126 PAGES

An account of the history, allure and exploration of the isolated Himalayan sanctuary on the border of India and Tibet. (HML66, $14.00)

Nanda Devi, Exploration and Ascent

by Eric Shipton | H. W. Tilman

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
288 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A compilation of two mountaineering classics, "Nanda Devi" and "Ascent of Nanda Devi." (HML54, $18.95)

Nanook & Pryce, Gone Fishing

by Ned Crowley

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
32 PAGES
YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

The charmingly illustrated travels of the endearing pair around the world, on an ice floe. (ARC251, $16.99)

Nanook of the North

by Robert J. Flaherty

EXPLORATION
1922
DVD

A gorgeously produced DVD of the groundbreaking Nanook of the North, originally released in 1922. (ARC153, $29.95)

Nansen

by Roland Huntford

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
750 PAGES

The centerpiece of Huntford's masterful biography of the polar explorer is the gripping account of the drift of the Fram -- and Nansen's epic trek across the ice to Franz Josef Land. (ARC121, $29.95)

National Geographic Bowers

by National Geographic

EXPLORATION
2011
GLOBE

This 12-inch, blue-ocean classic has a satin nickel semi-meridian and base. With bright updated cartography, raised relief and tap-on illumination. Batteries not included! (GLB58, $119.00)

National Geographic Byrd

by National Geographic

EXPLORATION
2011
GLOBE

The thousands of place names on this 16-inch diameter blue-ocean beauty are complemented by crisp National Geographic cartography, raised relief that you can touch and feel and tap-on illumination. With a hardwood base, steel yoke and diecast, gyro-matic meridian. (GLB59, $229.00)

The National Geographic Eaton

by National Geographic

EXPLORATION
2011
GLOBE

The antique brass-plated gyro-matic meridian and hardware add to the classic look of this handsome tripod stand (adjustable from 41 to 52 inches). With National Geographic cartography, the globe itself is 16 inches in diameter, with raised relief that you can touch and feel and thousands of place names. (GLB60, $350.00)

National Geographic Grosvenor

by National Geographic

EXPLORATION
2011
GLOBE

Named after the recently retired Gil Grosvenor, president of National Geographic from 1980 to 1996 and the fifth generation of his family to have served in that position, this 12-inch globe with raised relief combines classic styling with antique brass-plated semi-meridian and base. (GLB57, $79.00)

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

by Henry Walter Bates

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
409 PAGES

A spell-binding early account of the river and its environs, first published in 1863. This classic chronicle of Bates's scientific adventures, part natural history and part travelogue, has inspired generations of tropical biologists. (AMZ07, $17.95)

Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole

by Fergus Fleming

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
496 PAGES

A thrilling, artfully told chronicle of the mostly 19th-century adventurers, madmen and explorers who quested after the North Pole. (ARC124, $15.00)

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

by Felice Benuzzi

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
240 PAGES

This daring tale of the author's escape from a prisoner of war camp to climb Mount Kenya is not just great reading. Benuzzi's account of landscapes, animals and habitats encountered on his way to the top could also be of interest to anyone contemplating climbing Kilimanjaro. (EAF59, $14.95)

No Shortcuts to the Top, Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

by Ed Viesturs

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
368 PAGES

An exhilarating account of mountaineering by the first American to scale the world's 14 peaks that over 8,000 meters high, without the aid of bottled oxygen. (EXP45, $14.99)

No Way Down, Life and Death on K2

by Graham Bowley

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
253 PAGES

Bowley interviews surviving climbers and many Sherpas, porters, and family and friends, for this dramatic account of the disaster on K2 in August 2008 in which many were injured and 11 died. (HML110, $14.99)

North by Northwestern, A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters

by Mark Sundeen | Sig Hansen

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
320 PAGES

A true, rags-to-riches epic about a seafaring family on the deadly Alaskan seas, by captain and reality TV-star Hansen. (OCE177, $15.99)

The North Pole

by Robert E. Peary | Robert Bryce

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
373 PAGES

A reprint of the original, and much disputed, account of Peary's 1909 journey to the North Pole. Robert Bryce provides the introduction for this new edition, setting the controversy in historical context. (ARC99, $22.95)

North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo

by S. Allen Counter

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
327 PAGES

A biography and reconsideration of Matt Henson. (ARC114, $14.95)

The North Pole, A Narrative History

by Anthony Brandt

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
413 PAGES

Anthony Brandt samples the literature of exploration for this anthology. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into three parts: early exploration; the quest for the Northwest Passage; and North Pole journeys. (ARC155, $15.00)

North Pole, South Pole

by Bertrand Imbert

EXPLORATION
1992
PAPER
192 PAGES

A shirt pocket encyclopedia of exploration, featuring hundreds of well-chosen maps, historic photographs and journal excerpts. (ANT02, $15.95)

North to the Night, A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic

by Alvah Simon

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
328 PAGES

A well crafted tale of adventures in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland aboard a 36-foot sailing yacht, including most memorably a solo winter frozen in the sea ice off Bylot Island. (ARC97, $14.95)

North to the Orient

by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

EXPLORATION
1966
PAPER
168 PAGES

A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze. (ARC36, $12.95)

Off the Map, Tales of Endurance and Exploration

by Fergus Fleming

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
518 PAGES

Master storyteller Fleming (Killing Dragons, Ninety Degrees North) recounts 43 tales of adventure, both well-known and obscure, in this wonderfully diverse sampling. He opens with the exploits of Marco Polo and the Mongol Empire, moving briskly through the centuries up to Albert Nobile's fateful attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. (EXP36, $16.00)

Off the Wall, Death in Yosemite

by Michael Ghiglieri | Charles Farabee

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
608 PAGES

The irresistible and instructive roundup of "All Known Fatal Mishaps in America's First Protected Land of Scenic Wonders." (SWU235, $24.95)

Oil and Ice, A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty

by Peter Nichols

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
306 PAGES

Nichols tells the riveting history of America's whaling industry and it's sudden fall in 1871, when a fleet of ships from New Bedford was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. (ARC264, $16.00)

Old New Zealand and Other Writings

by Frederick Edward Maning

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
256 PAGES

This scholarly edition of this important early account of the Maori, originally pblished in 1863, puts the work in historical context. (NZL104, $60.00)

Once in a Lifetime Trips, The World's 50 Most Extraordinary and Memorable Travel Experiences

by Chris Santella

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
224 PAGES

Chris Santella interviewed 50 travel experts for this well-illustrated roundup of nature, adventure and culture tours around the world. (TVL482, $24.95)

One Island, One Ocean, Ocean Watch and the Epic Journey Around the Americas

by Herb McCormick

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
240 PAGES

A project of David Rockefeller's Sailors for the Sea, this photo book documents the 13-month, Around-the-Americas adventures of the 64' steel hull cutter Ocean Watch on a voyage from Seattle, through the Northwest Passage, south around Cape Horn, and back to Seattle. (OCE183, $35.00)

Ordeal by Ice, Ships of the Antarctic

by Rorke Bryan

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
554 PAGES

With technical information, plans, photos, paintings and maps Rorke Bryan covers Antarctic vessels, from 15th-century voyages south through the heroic age of exploration up to the expedition ships and the sophisticated research vessels of today. (ANT364, $45.00)

Out West

by Dayton Duncan

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
464 PAGES

In this spirited tale of history, exploration and travel, Duncan recounts his adventures in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark (USW374, $24.95)

Over the Edge of the World, Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the World

by Laurence Bergreen

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
458 PAGES

This uncommonly well written biography brings to life the complex, difficult 16th-century Portuguese captain and his discoveries. Bergreen follows the great navigator from his origins in Seville and on his voyages to the Americas, and through the Pacific. (WLD44, $15.99)

Over the Edge, Death in Grand Canyon

by Thomas M. Myers | Michael Ghiglieri

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
408 PAGES

A veteran Colorado River guide and park physician teamed up for this dauntingly popular review (equal part grim and hilarious) of how 600 people have met their maker in Grand Canyon, organized by mode of dispatch (falls, freezing, drowning etc). (SWU234, $22.95)

Paddle to the Arctic

by Don Starkell

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
304 PAGES

Not simply the story of a man in a kayak, this diary of a 3,000-mile journey from Churchill to Tuktoyaktut captures the challenges of the Northwest Passage. (ARC26, $16.95)

Paddle-to-the-Sea

by Holling C. Holling

EXPLORATION
1980
PAPER
62 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Holling's captivating tale introduces youngsters to the geography and history of North America through the story of a young Indian boy and the toy canoe he launches on a journey from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. (NAM25, $11.95)

The Paper Road, Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet

by Erik Mueggler

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
361 PAGES

With a focus on the Chinese minorities in Southwest China, anthropologist Mueggler brings to life the expeditions in the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma of two early 20th-century botanists, Scotsman George Forrest and American Joseph Francis Charles Rock. (CHN700, $29.95)

Pathfinders, A Global History of Exploration

by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
432 PAGES

Fernandez-Armesto tracks the evolution of travel over five millennia in this brisk history. (EXP46, $21.95)

Peak

by Roland Smith

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
246 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

Pushed to become the youngest person ever to summit Everest, Peak Marcello (named by his mountain-climbing parents) has to overcome a rival team, his resentful father, searing cold -- and many frozen corpses -- in this suspenseful, gripping tale of adventure for young adults. (NPL70, $6.95)

Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

by Alexander von Humboldt

EXPLORATION
1996
PAPER
310 PAGES

This is the book that Darwin took on his voyage around the world -- a classic account of naturalist and explorer Humboldt's 18th-century discoveries in South America. (SAM08, $17.00)

Pilgrims on the Ice, Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic Expedition

by Tim Baughman

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
334 PAGES

Baughman brings to life all the excitement and accomplishments of Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904 in this scholarly, level-headed evaluation of the Discovery expedition. (ANT106, $18.95)

The Pioneer

by Replogle

EXPLORATION
2011
GLOBE

These are the much-loved globes with real topography that you can touch and feel -- since 1930 the most popular globes in the classrooms of America. Each globe is covered in sturdy, coated paper applied by hand. Our bestselling globe, the Pioneer, is a brightly colored, blue-ocean model with a handy gyro-mount. Made largely by hand in Chicago, Replogle offers more than 100 models, from this classic to floor models and the imposing Diplomat (GLB25, $7,225), the world's most detailed globe. (GLB11, $69.00)

Pioneers of the Pacific, Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810

by Nigel Rigby

EXPLORATION
2005
HARD COVER
144 PAGES

The adventures of six of Cook's immediate successors in the South Seas. (PAC166, $26.95)

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind, The Life of William Dampier

by Michael Preston | Diana Preston

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
384 PAGES

A marvelously well researched, absorbing biography of the 17th century English explorer, sea captain naturalist and buccaneer. Long our favorite pirate, it's a pleasure to see the accomplishments of the swashbuckler laid out so effectively. (GBR436, $15.00)

Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl

by Gore Verbinski

EXPLORATION
2005
DVD

Johnny Depp , Kiera Knightley, and Orlando Bloom star in this hughly popular high seas adventure. (CRB196, $19.99)

Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

by Gore Verbinski

EXPLORATION
2006
DVD

Johnny Depp , Kiera Knightley, and Orlando Bloom star in this hughly popular high seas adventure. (CRB197, $29.99)

A Plant Hunter in Tibet

by Frank Kingdon-Ward

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
317 PAGES

The lively account of a 1933 expedition to a remote corner of southeast Tibet. (TBT105, $26.00)

The Plant Hunters

by Tyler Whittle

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
288 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Tales of the botanist-explorers who enriched our gardens, including adventures in the Himalayas. (NAT29, $16.95)

Points Unknown, A Century of Great Exploration

by David Roberts

EXPLORATION
2000
HARD COVER
416 PAGES

Luminaries as Sir Ernest Shackleton and Freya Stark bump against modern journalist-adventurers like Eric Newby, Eric Hansen and Tom Wolfe in this anthology of 20th-century exploration. Edited by Outside contributor, author and mountaineer David Roberts. (EXP08, $29.95)

Polar Exploration, The Heroic Exploits of the World's Greatest Polar Explorers

by Beau Riffenburgh

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER

A volume in the National Geographic Society Exploration Experience, this casebound book includes facsimiles of key documents, archival photographs and succinct accompanying text. (EXP76, $29.95)

Polar Explorers for Kids

by Maxine Snowden

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
150 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

The history and adventures of 16 polar explorers, including Erik the Red, Henry Hudson, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, are brought to life in 21 puzzles, games, projects and activities for kids ages 9 and up. (ARC191, $16.95)

Polar Journeys, The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration

by Robert Feeney

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
279 PAGES

This is the book for anyone who has ever wondered about hoosh, pemmican and all the other makings of the early explorers' diets. The author, a biochemist, looks at the nutrition and diet of explorers, linking developments in food preservation techniques to the history of polar exploration. (ANT107, $27.95)

Polar Reaches, The History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration

by Richard Sale

EXPLORATION
2002
HARD COVER
192 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A lively, nicely illustrated survey of exploration of the polar regions. (ANT170, $29.95)

Polar Wives

by Kari Herbert

EXPLORATION
2012
PAPER
347 PAGES

Eva Nansen, Jane Franklin, Emily Shackleton, Kathleen Scott and her own mother Marie Herbert are included in this group biography. (ANT363, $18.95)

Poles Apart

by Galen Rowell

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
184 PAGES

Noted landscape photographer Galen Rowell turns his attention to the ends of the earth: a gorgeous collection of 188 color photographs with insightful commentary on the story behind each picture. (ANT27, $45.00)

The Quest for Frank Wild

by Angie Butler

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
224 PAGES

Angie Butler's gripping -- and superbly illustrated -- tale of Frank Wild and her seven-year quest to unravel the mystery of the last days of one of the great polar explorers, includes Wild's heretofore unpublished memoirs. Butler has just returned from South Georgia, where Wild's remains were finally laid to rest next to his boss, Ernest Shackleton, in the cemetery in Grytviken. (ANT355, $60.00)

Race for the South Pole

by Roland Huntford

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
352 PAGES

Side by side, day by day, Huntford lets Scott and Amundsen speak for themselves, placing the original diary entries of each man on facing pages. He includes superb original maps and photographs, and the never-before-translated diary of Amundsen's charismatic lead skier. (ANT326, $16.95)

Race for the South Pole -- The Antarctic Challenge

by Fred L. Israel

EXPLORATION
1999
HARD COVER
144 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A facsimile of 27 articles, complete with maps and archival photographs, as they originally appeared in National Geographic Magazine. (ANT108, $22.95)

Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott and the Attainment of the South Pole

by Ross MacPhee

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER
245 PAGES
FAVORITE

Curator of the riveting exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, MacPhee includes panoramic maps, never-before-seen photographs of artifacts from Scott's last camp, iconic photographs by Ponting and Hurley, and contemporary accounts of the two celebrated expeditions in this month-by-month and day-by-day look at the two iconic expeditions. (ANT322, $27.95)

Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest

by Ranulph Fiennes

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
480 PAGES

British polar adventurer Fiennes reconsiders the legacy of Robert Falcon Scott. (ANT220, $14.95)

Race to the South Pole Coloring Book

by Patricia J. Wynne

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER

Ross MacPhee (Race to the End) collaborated with illustrator Patricia Wynne for this historically accurate, thrilling account of Antarctic exploration in 30 ready-to-color illustrations. (ANT332, $3.99)

The Race to the White Continent, Voyages to the Antarctic

by Alan Gurney

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
288 PAGES

Gurney captures the fanfare, ego and discovery of 19th-century polar exploration in this compelling narrative of the 1837-1842 Antarctic voyages of Dumont d'Urville, James Clark Ross and Charles Wilkes. (ANT136, $15.95)

The Raven's Gift, A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness

by Jonathan Turk

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
336 PAGES

Scientist adventurer Turk's illuminating account of a physical and spiritual journey to Siberia -- and his encounters with Moolynaut, a Koryak shaman. (SIB62, $16.99)

The Real Tripitaka, And Other Pieces

by Arthur Waley Estate

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
292 PAGES

First published in 1952, Waley relates the story of the Tang Dynasty monk Prince Tripitaka, whose pilgrimage to India to study and bring Buddhist text back to China became the stuff of legend. China's perennially popular folk epic, Monkey, A Journey to the West, was also translated by scholar Waley. (CHN709, $44.95)

Recollections of a Happy Life, Being the Autobiography of Marianne North

by Marianne North

EXPLORATION
1994
PAPER
400 PAGES

An illustrated account of the intrepid Victorian traveler, botanist and painter Marianne North. (GBR328, $25.00)

A Republic of Rivers, Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon

by John A. Murray

NATURAL HISTORY
1992
PAPER
325 PAGES

A comprehensive anthology of nature writing on Alaska and the Yukon. (ALA91, $34.99)

Return to Titanic, A New Look At The World's Most Famous Lost Ship

by Robert D. Ballard

EXPLORATION
2004
HARD COVER
192 PAGES

Ballard, who discovered the sunken Titanic in 1985, returns to the wreck to document damage done to the site since its discovery. Beginning with the history of the massive vessel, the book recounts the techniques used in exploring the wreck and concludes with Ballard's 2003 return journey and his goal to preserve the site by turning it into an underwater museum. With photographs. (OCE139, $30.00)

Revenge of the Whale, The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick

EXPLORATION
2004
HARD COVER
YOUNG ADULTS

The tale of the Nantucket whaleship Essex for middleschoolers. (USE315, $16.99)

Richard Bangs' Adventures With Purpose, Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth

by Richard Bangs

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
400 PAGES

Bangs' personal experiences of "witnessing many special places preserved and lost" led him to write this book, which follows the author to Bosnia, Libya, Panama, the American West, Rwanda, Thailand and more as he seeks out disappearing cultures, peoples, habitats and ecosystems. (WLD127, $16.95)

The River at the Center of the World

by Simon Winchester

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
410 PAGES
FAVORITE

Winchester writes about the character of the Yangtze and the people and places along its banks with easy grace in this absorbing portrait of the great river flowing through the heart of China. (CHN31, $16.00)

River Road to China, The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866-73

by Milton Osborne

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
247 PAGES

An excellent modern account of a 19th-century French expedition 4,000 miles from Vietnam and Cambodia into unknown regions of China in search of the source of the Mekong. (SEA29, $16.95)

The Road to Ubar, Finding the Atlantis of the Sands

by Nicholas Clapp

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
342 PAGES

A fascinating day-by-day account of Clapp's search in the 1980s for the ruins of Ubar, an ancient Arabian trading center on the frankincense route in Oman's Empty Quarter. (ARB49, $19.95)

Robert Ballard's Lusitania: Probing the Mysteries of the Sinking That Changed History

by Robert Ballard

EXPLORATION
2007
HARD COVER

A re-release of Ballard's tales of discovery. (EXP71, $17.99)

The Roof at the Bottom of the World

by Edmund Stump

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
272 PAGES

With detailed maps and 100 stunning color photographs, Antarctic veteran Ed Stump shows the Transantarctic range in all its icy glory and, for aficionados, Stump has plotted the routes of the historic expeditions across mountains and glaciers with unprecedented accuracy. (ANT341, $29.95)

Rounding the Horn

by Dallas Murphy

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
358 PAGES

A sailor at heart, Dallas Murphy gets himself down to Ushuaia, embarks a sturdy vessel and heads out to experience the wind and weather of Tierra del Fuego. In his informative account, Dallas interweaves plenty of history, a little rather naive politics and the story of his own adventures. (PAT65, $18.00)

Royal Geographical Society Illustrated

by Royal Geographical Society

EXPLORATION
2002
HARD COVER
340 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A treasure trove of archival photographs from the RGS, bundled in a lavish oversize book with accompanying text on great expeditions, explorers and places. (GEN94, $80.00)

Running the Amazon

by Joe Kane

EXPLORATION
1990
PAPER
278 PAGES

A best-selling account of a 4,000-mile expedition from the high Andes to the Atlantic by foot, raft and kayak -- an expedition only four of the ten participants finished. (AMZ13, $14.95)

Sailing Alone Around the World

by Joshua Slocum

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
272 PAGES
FAVORITE

A born storyteller and American hero, Slocum recounts his many adventures aboard the 36-foot wooden sloop Spray on the first-ever solo circumnavigation of the globe. (EXP03, $14.00)

Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors: Reviving Polynesian Voyaging

by Ben R. Finney

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
176 PAGES

On its surface an account of a 1995 voyage from Hawaii to the Marquesas, this engaging book by a pioneer of experimental voyages is also a wide-ranging history of Pacific traditions. (PAC178, $19.95)

Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain

by Jennifer Jordan

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
300 PAGES

The stories of five women who made it to the top of K2 from 1986 to 1995, told in order of their summits: Wanda Rutkiewicz, Liliane Barrard, Julie Tullis, Chantal Mauduit and Alison Hargreaves. (HML68, $13.99)

Scott of The Antarctic

by Charles Frend

EXPLORATION
1948
DVD

John Mills stars as Robert Falcon Scott in this 1948 epic, a film which helped to elevate Scott to national hero. In Technicolor with a magnificent soundtrack by Vaughn Williams. (ANT325, $9.99)

Scott's Last Expedition, The Journals

by Robert Falcon Scott | Max Jones

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
529 PAGES

Scott's account of his last doomed expedition, recovered beside his frozen body. With an introduction by Bainbridge and extensive annotations by editor Max Jones (including a contemporary account of Scott by J.M. Barrie). (ANT46, $17.95)

Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69

by Edward Whymper

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
320 PAGES

Edward Wymper's classic account of Victorian-era mountaineering captures the geography, beauty and allure of the Alps. (ALP02, $16.00)

The Sea and the Jungle

by H.M. Tomlinson

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
258 PAGES

First published in 1912, this is a thoroughly unromanticized, absorbing account of a 2,000-mile journey by steamship deep into the Amazon. Understated and often hilarious. (AMZ10, $18.00)

Sea of Dangers, Captain Cook and His Rivals in the South Pacific

by Geoffrey Blainey

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
322 PAGES

The stirring tale of the great navigator Captain James Cook and his French rival, Jean de Surville, both in search of Terra Incognita, by the great Australian historian. (PAC225, $27.50)

Sea of Glory, America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Nathaniel Philbrick

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
416 PAGES

An accomplished, vivid history of an around-the-world expedition commanded by Charles Wilkes. (PAC140, $16.00)

Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives

by David Cordingly

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER

A fascinating survey of women who went to sea, as wives, crossdressing cabin boys or even lighthouse keepers, during the age of sail. (OCE94, $17.00)

The Search for the North West Passage

by Ann Savours

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
342 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Three hundred years in search of the North West Passage. (ARC64, $17.95)

Searching for Paradise

by Thurston Clarke

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
352 PAGES

In the grip of Islomania, which he describes as a common malady, Clarke romps around the world visiting 13 islands from Mas a Tierra to FDR's sleepy Campobello, quirkily organized into islands "famous, personal and symbolic." (EXP10, $19.00)

Seeking Western Waters, the Lewis & Clark Trail from the Rockies to the Pacific

by Emory M. Strong | ruth Strong

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
383 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An illustrated selection from the journals of Lewis and Clark focusing on native people along the Columbia River. (PNW55, $18.95)

Seven Summits

by Dick Bass | Frank Wells | Rick Ridgeway

EXPLORATION
1988
PAPER
336 PAGES

For those heading to Africa, this book about two men trying to conquer the world's seven summit includes a detailed description of the (non-technical) Machame route on Kilimanjaro. (EXP48, $15.99)

Shackleton

by Charles Sturridge

EXPLORATION
2002
DVD

Kenneth Branagh stars as the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in this dramatization. (ANT291, $19.95)

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

by George Butler

EXPLORATION
2002
DVD
OUT OF PRINT

A stunning film of Shackleton's 1914 trans-Antarctic expedition, originally presented in IMAX theaters in glorious 70 mm. With aerial photography, documentary footage and the modern expedition by three great mountaineers in the footsteps of Shackleton across the mountains and glaciers of South Georgia. (ANT203, $19.99)

Shackleton's Boat Journey

by Sir Edmund Hillary | Frank Worsley

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
220 PAGES

This classic account by the captain of the Endurance features the team's remarkable two-week boat journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia. (ANT72, $14.95)

Shackleton's Boat Journey, The Story of the James Caird

by Harding McGregor Dunnett

EXPLORATION
1999
NTSC VIDEO
OUT OF PRINT

A 30-minute video focusing on Shackleton's 800-mile journey to South Georgia. With original photographs by Frank Hurley from the expedition and modern footage. (ANT163, $19.95)

Shackleton's Forgotten Men, The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic

by Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton | Leonard Bickel

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
241 PAGES

The tale of Shackleton's team on the Ross Ice Shelf, who completed a 199-day sledge journey under harrowing conditions. (ANT103, $19.95)

Shackleton's Stowaway

by Victoria McKernan

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
336 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

McKernan deftly interweaves actual explorers and events in this fictionalized account of Shackleton's voyage for ages 12 and up. (ANT226, $6.50)

Shackleton's Way, Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

by Margot Morrell | Stephanie Capparell

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
224 PAGES

The authors of this volume use the Shackleton story to illustrate principles of leadership, including the importance of hiring an outstanding crew, creating camaraderie and leading effectively in a crisis. (ANT140, $16.00)

Shackleton, An Antarctic Map Map Primer

by Earl B. McElfresh

EXPLORATION
2002
MAP

A collection of historic maps of Shackleton's Endurance expedition. (ANT187, $24.95)

Shackleton, The Antarctic Challenge

by Kim Heacox | Alexandra Shackleton

EXPLORATION
1999
HARD COVER
216 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An illustrated overview of Shackleton's expeditions featuring diary excerpts and an excellent selection of archival photographs. Heacox is a popular staff member on Antarctic tour expeditions. (ANT101, $35.00)

The Ship, Retracing Captain Cook's Endeavor Voyage

by Simon Baker

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
224 PAGES

An illustrated companion to a BBC televison documentary, this book follows Simon Baker and his ambitious 21st-century expedition in the wake of Captain Cook's Endeavor. (PAC150, $27.50)

Ships of Exploration and Discovery

by Lincoln Paine

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
160 PAGES

A lively, illustrated survey of 125 ships of exploration from Columbus to modern times. (OCE49, $21.95)

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, The True Story of the Endurance Expedition

by Jennifer Armstrong

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
128 PAGES
YOUNG ADULTS

This book retells the story of the Endurance for kids ages 12 and up. (ANT68, $12.95)

Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo

by Tracy Johnston

EXPLORATION
1992
PAPER
256 PAGES

The adventure story of a rafting expedition down Borneo's Boh river. (BRN12, $12.00)

Siberia, Siberia

by Valentin Rasputin

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
443 PAGES
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

A sweeping account of the exploration, conquest and colonization of Russia's "West," beginning with the crossing of the Ural Mountains by the Cossacks in 1580. (SIB01, $22.95)

The Silk Road, Ten Thousand Miles Through Central Asia

by Sven Hedin

EXPLORATION
2009
PAPER
344 PAGES

Hedin's enthralling account of adventure and derring-do -- and a telling portrait of Central Asia and its people in the 1930s, first in a trilogy that includes The Trail of War (CAS169, $16.95) and The Wandering Lake (CHN596, $19.00). (CAS170, $18.95)

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Traveller and Plant Collector

by Raymond Desmond

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1999
HARD COVER
286 PAGES

A biography of the Victorian explorer and botanist featuring Hooker's illustrations and excerpts from his "Himalayan Journals" (GEN79, $49.50)

The Sisters of Sinai, How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

by Janet Soskice

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
316 PAGES

Soskice vividly recounts the story of Agnes and Margaret Smith, two unlikely and unsung heroines, and their discovery in 1892 of one of the earliest known copies of the gospels at St. Catherine's. (EGY334, $16.95)

Skeletons on the Zahara, A True Story of Survival

by Dean King

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
368 PAGES

King weaves a gripping tale of Captain James Riley and the men of the merchant ship Commerce, shipwrecked, captured and sold into slavery in 1815. King relies on published journals and his own travels to recreate the drama and hardship of the four-month trek across the Sahara. (NAF16, $14.99)

Smithsonian Mountaineers

by Dorling Kindersley

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
360 PAGES

A lavish visual survey of 80 great mountaineers -- who they were, where they went -- from the Alps and Dolomites to Everest and other peaks in Himalayas and the Andes. (EXP91, $40.00)

The Snow Leopard

by Peter Matthiessen

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
368 PAGES
FAVORITE

The most perceptive, acutely observed and personal of all his books, Matthiessen's account of a five-week journey through Nepal with naturalist George Schaller combines their quest for the elusive cat with a moving introduction to Buddhism and the people and culture of the Himalayas. (NPL03, $16.00)

Snowstruck, In the Grip of Avalanches

by Jill Fredston

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
342 PAGES

Statistics, stories and practical information that could save your life from an avalanche expert. (ALA244, $14.00)

Some Folk Think the South Pole's Hot, The Three Tenors Play the Antarctic

by Quint Buchholz

EXPLORATION
2001
HARD COVER
64 PAGES

With wit and whimsy, and told entirely in rhyming verse, this exquisitely illustrated tale has Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti arrive by ship to perform for the amusement of the penguins. Some folk think the South Pole's hot. With ice and snow? Of course it's not! (ANT310, $17.95)

The South Pole, A Historical Reader

by Anthony Brandt

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
463 PAGES

An anthology of accounts of Antarctic Exploration and the quest for the South Pole. (ANT216, $15.00)

The South Pole, An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

by Roald Amundsen | Roland Huntford

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
1008 PAGES

Amundsen's vivid narrative, first published as 2 volumes, reflects his modesty -- and focus on the practical details of getting to the Pole. (ANT148, $28.00)

South, The Endurance Expedition

by Ernest Shackleton

EXPLORATION
2004
PAPER
324 PAGES

Shackleton's classic first-person account of the loss of the Endurance. With an introduction by Fergus Fleming and the remarkable photos by expedition photographer Frank Hurley. (ANT61, $19.95)

South, The Endurance Expedition

by Ernest Shackleton

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
418 PAGES

A mass market edition of the Shackleton classic. (ANT96, $7.99)

The Southern Gates of Arabia, a Journey in the Hadhramaut

by Freya Stark

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
270 PAGES

An account of Stark's quest to find the ancient city of Shabwa, the heretofore unexplored oasis on Yemen's frankincense route. Witty, rapturous and full of incident. (MDE52, $15.00)

The Species Seekers, Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

by Richard Conniff

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
480 PAGES

Conniff weaves tales of the bold adventures of Linneaus and others who explored the farthest conrers of the world with the grand-breaking ideas that their findings brought about in this thrilling tale of popular science and discovery. (EXP80, $17.95)

The Spice Islands Voyage, The Quest for the Man who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution

by Tim Severin

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
267 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

With the classic Malay Archipelago as his guide, Severin sets out to recreate the 19th-century adventures of Alfred Russel Wallace, interweaving history, biology and conservation with his own voyage to Sulawesi, Moluccas, Aru, Bacan, Ternate and other islands. (INS82, $14.95)

Spin the Globe Adventures, Australia

by Marissa Giamo

EXPLORATION
2007
HARD COVER
YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

An illustrated learning adventure including a quiz and a list of Australian sayings. When Marissa goes on a wild trip to Australia with Spin, a talking globe, she befriends an Aussie and meets native animals. Ages 4-8. (AUS199, $15.95)

Spirit of Endurance

by Jennifer Armstrong

EXPLORATION
2000
HARD COVER
32 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
OUT OF PRINT

The true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's quest to lead the first journey to Antarctica in 1914 (ANT125, $17.95)

The Spoken Word: Travel Writers, Travel Writers and Explorers in Their Own Words

by British Library

EXPLORATION
2012
AUDIO CD
COMING IN MAY

From the British Library Sound Archive, this two-disc set mixes radio broadcasts, live talks and recordings of the most celebrated adventurers and literary explorers of the 20th century, including Peter Fleming, Laurie Lee, Ella Maillart, Jan Morris, Eric Newby, Freya Stark, Wilfred Thesiger and Laurens Van der Post -- in their own words. (TVL548, $25.00)

The Starlight

by Replogle

EXPLORATION
GLOBE

The black-ocean globe is back, here as a 12-inch tabletop model with a matte sliver base (GLB10, $74.00)

Stickeen

by John Muir

EXPLORATION
1990
PAPER
96 PAGES

Muir's exhilarating tale of crossing Brady Glacier in Alaska during a storm with his dog, a classic. (ALA334, $7.95)

Still Life, Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton

by Jane Ussher

EXPLORATION
2012
HARD COVER
224 PAGES

Handsomely bound in cloth, this striking collection of photographs showcases Jane Ussher's rich color portraits of interiors and surroundings of the historic Antarctic headquarters at Cape Evans and Cape Royds. With an eye for exquisite detail, Ussher captures the decayed splendor of the huts, untouched by time, showing, for example, one wall with a portrait of King Edward VII hanging amidst seal blubber and mutton, a jar of pickles, penguin eggs, cufflinks and a pair of trousers. (ANT361, $50.00)

Storm Over Mont Blanc

by Arnold Fanck

EXPLORATION
2005
DVD

Starring Leni Riefenstahl (Triumph of the Will), Fanck's celebrated film (1930) is a masterful example of the Bergfilm (Mountain Film). (ALP38, $29.95)

Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes and Golden Sharks: Travels of a Water-Bound Adventurer

by Bill Belleville

EXPLORATION
2004
HARD COVER
248 PAGES

Belleville, an environmental journalist, recounts the natural and man-made wonders he encountered on his travels in Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America. (CRB184, $29.95)

Tales of Mountaineering

by Stefano Ardito

EXPLORATION
2007
HARD COVER
320 PAGES

An oversize photographic history of the great ascents and climbers in 20th-century mountaineering. (EXP51, $35.00)

Tent Life in Siberia

by George Kennan | Larry McMurtry

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
425 PAGES

Kennan's spirited account of his adventures among the people, little-known cultures and snow-capped volcanoes of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East, originally published in 1871. (RUS142, $17.95)

Terra Antarctica, Looking into the Emptiest Continent

by William Fox

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
328 PAGES

Fox explores the relationship of art, land and history in the Antarctic, weaving his philosophic inquiry with observations of life, scientific research and daily operations at McMurdo Station and Pole. (ANT230, $19.95)

Thirty Years in the Golden North

by Jan Welzl

EXPLORATION
1932
HARD COVER
336 PAGES

Originally published in 1932, this spirited tale of the Czech adventurer and folk hero in the great north (he claimed to be living in the New Siberian Islands) was a bestseller in its day. Whatever you think of the veracity of his wild yarns, it's a great story. (SIB71, $)

Through the Dark Continent, Volume 1

by Henry M. Stanley

EXPLORATION
1988
PAPER
400 PAGES

A reprint of the original accounts of Henry Morton Stanley in Africa. (CAF06, $24.95)

Through the First Antarctic Night

by Frederick A. Cook

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
520 PAGES

With maps, archival and modern photographs, this original account by ship's surgeon Frederick Cook brings to vivid life the first discovery of the Gerlache Strait, Danco Land and other locales along the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Under the command of Adrian de Gerlache, the international crew also included Roald Amundsen and Henryk Arctowski. (ANT102, $19.95)

Throwim Way Leg

by Tim F. Flannery

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
336 PAGES

Subtitled "Tree-Kangaroos, Possums and Penis Gourds, On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea," this witty account of a scientific expedition to New Guinea combines natural history, adventure and insightful commentary. Flannery returned from the expedition with 20 new species of mammals -- including a tree kangaroo and bat thought extinct since the Pleistocene. (NGA18, $14.00)

Timbuktu, The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

by Marq de Villiers | Sheila Hirtle

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
320 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

The husband-and-wife duo spin a lively tale of founding myths, Tuareg traditions, Moroccan invasions and the fate of the city as a center of trade and learning in this anecdotal history. The authors have also written Sahara (NAF13, $14.00). (WAF113, $21.00)

Time on Ice, A Winter Voyage to Antarctica

by Deborah Shapiro | Rolf Bjelke

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
290 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

The adventures of a Swedish husband and wife team aboard a yacht in the Antarctic winter. (ANT60, $16.95)

To the Arctic! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times

by Jeanette Mirsky

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
334 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

Mirsky recounts tales of Arctic exploration, from the Dutch discovery of Spitsbergen to the search for Franklin and the quest for the North Pole in this classic history. (ARC31, $17.00)

To the Ends of the Earth, Adventures of an Expedition Photographer

by Gordon Wiltsie | Alex Lowe

EXPLORATION
2006
HARD COVER
224 PAGES

National Geographic photographer Wiltsie chronicles his inspiring adventures from bouldering as a youth in California's Chalk Bluff cliffs to early climbs in the Himalayas, and expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctic, Patagonia, Mongolia and beyond in this illustrated journal. (ANT242, $35.00)

To the Top of Denali

by Bill Sherwonit

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
368 PAGES

This classic account of true life stories brings to life the adventure, heroism, triumph and tragedy of climbing North America's highest peak. (ALA29, $18.95)

To the Top of the Continent

by Frederick A. Cook

EXPLORATION
1996
PAPER
368 PAGES

The 90th anniversary edition of the much-debated account by Frederick Cook of his first-ever ascent of Mount McKinley (1903-1906). (ALA83, $19.95)

To the Top, The Story of Everest

by Stephen Venables

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
96 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

A 50th anniversary book in association with the Royal Geogaphical Society for ages 9-12. (HML60, $17.99)

Tom Crean's Rabbit, A True Story from Scott's Last Voyage

by Meredith Hooper

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

Based on the diaries of Tom Crean and the men who sailed to the South Pole on board the Terra Nova in 1910 with Captain Robert Falcon Scott. (ANT246, $7.95)

Tom Crean, Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions

by Michael Smith

EXPLORATION
2002
HARD COVER
304 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

A solid biography of the Irish explorer. (ANT169, $24.95)

The Tomb of Tutankhamen

by Howard Carter | Lisa Thomas

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
384 PAGES

A condensed, readable version of Carter's classic tale of discovery. (EGY103, $14.00)

Touching the Void

by Brendan Mackey

EXPLORATION
2007
DVD

The documentary adaptation of Joe Simpson's harrowing memoir combines interviews with Simpson and his climbing partner Simon Yates with reenactments filmed in the Andes and the Alps. (AND78, $14.98)

Tracks, A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

by Robyn Davidson

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
256 PAGES

The true-life story of a woman's trek across the Australian outback -- an adventurous tale shot through with a feel for the landscape and empathy for the Aborigines she meets along the way. (AUS15, $15.95)

Trapped by the Ice, Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventure

by Michael McCurdy

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
32 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

An illustrated retelling of the Endurance expedition geared for children. (ANT75, $8.95)

Travel the World Gift Collection

by Laurie Krebs

EXPLORATION
2009
BOXED

From the serpentine and majestic Nile, to the snowcapped mountains of Peru, this wordly collection, packaged in a colorful canvas tote bag, includes a jigsaw puzzle of the world and set of five llustrated journeys for ages 3-10. (WLD181, $100.00)

Travels in Alaska

by John Muir

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
248 PAGES

The centerpiece of this beloved classic is Muir's wide-eyed account of the discovery of Glacier Bay. (ALA16, $15.00)

Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844

by Robert Schomburgk

EXPLORATION
HARD COVER

An early account of his travels in Guiana on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society. (SAM148, $)

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

by Mungo Park

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
272 PAGES

Park chronicles of the culture, society and nature of West Africa before the colonial period in this classic account of a 24-year-old Scotsman exploring, often alone, in uncharted Africa. First published in 1799. (WAF40, $12.95)

The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo | Colin Thubron

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
421 PAGES

The intrepid Colin Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) provides the appreciate introduction to this new Everyman's Library edition, highlighting the places that still bring a start of recognition to the modern traveler. It's a rich portrait of China at the height of Mongol rule that strains credulity. (ASA72, $26.00)

Trial by Ice, The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition

by Richard Parry

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
336 PAGES

A definitive account of the 1871 Polaris expedition into the Arctic details the conflicts that threatened the journey from its inception, the mysterious death of expedition leader Charles Francis Hall, a veteran Arctic explorer, the disaster that destroyed the Polaris, the ordeal of its survivors, and the killer who got away with murder more than a century ago. (ARC167, $14.00)

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog

by Anne Salmond

HISTORY
2003
HARD COVER
536 PAGES
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

The remarkable story of Captain Cook's encounters in the South Seas, told with authority and verve by a leading historian. (PAC138, $25.00)

Tristes Tropiques

by Claude Levi-Strauss | John Weightman | Doreen Weightman

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2011
PAPER
464 PAGES

The classic, insightful account of the peoples of the Amazon by the inventor of structural anthropology. A demanding read, yet humorous and worthwhile. (AMZ14, $20.00)

True North, Travels in Arctic Europe

by Gavin Francis

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
316 PAGES

Francis follows in the wake of ancient explorers and Viking settlers from Scotland and the Shetland Isles to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and beyond in this thoughtful tale of adventures across the Atlantic. (ARC271, $18.00)

True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole

by Bruce Henderson

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
331 PAGES

Henderson tackles the bitter rivalry between Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, along with the competing claims, controversy and politics of who first reached the North Pole. (ARC158, $24.95)

Tsangpo Gorges

by Frank Kingdon-Ward

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
336 PAGES

Legendary plant-explorer Kingdon-Ward's original account of his 1924-1925 expedition to the source of the Tsangpo, expertly edited and annotated by modern explorer Kenneth Cox, who brings the story of the exploration of this almost inaccessible corner of south-east Tibet up to date. With 250 color photographs. (TBT103, $75.00)

Turkestan Reunion

by Eleanor Holgate Lattimore

EXPLORATION
1995
PAPER
323 PAGES

Eleanor's unforgettable chronicle of a harrowing honeymoon adventure in the High Tartary takes the form of a series of letters home. Boirdered by desert and mountains, Chinese Turketsan (present day Xinjiang) in the 1920s was at the center of the Great Game, "home to petty lordlings, shysters, renegades and mercenaries of every background." (HML106, $14.00)

Turn Right at Machu Picchu

by Mark Adams

EXPLORATION
2012
PAPER
333 PAGES

Over his head on an arduous guided trek to Choquequirao and other remote sites, Mark Adams mixes entertaining tales of his adventuress (he makes himself out to be quite the accidental explorer) with analysis of the rather grand Hiram Bingham in this light-hearted "following-in-the-footsteps-of" account. (PRU118, $16.00)

Two in the Far North

by Margaret Murie | Olaus Murie

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
369 PAGES
FAVORITE

Murie's field biologist husband supplies not only fodder for the stories, but also the illustrations for this tale of life on the Alaskan frontier. (ALA57, $16.95)

Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard H. Dana

EXPLORATION
1986
PAPER
572 PAGES

The visceral, gripping account of life at sea during an 1838 voyage from Boston to California that took seaman Richard H. Dana around Cape Horn. (PAT06, $16.00)

Ultima Thule, Explorers and Natives in the Polar North

by Jean Malaurie

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
399 PAGES

In this oversize, handsomely illustrated history of European exploration of Greenland and the Arctic, Malaurie draws together explorers' logs, Inuit accounts, photographs, engravings and period drawings. (ARC123, $75.00)

The Umbrella

by Ingrid & Dieter Schubert

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
40 PAGES

A whirlwind tour of the world, this wordless picture book shows the many inadvertent adventures of a black terrier, carried from the desert to the sea, jungle and North Pole. (WLD221, $16.95)

Unclaimed Coast

by Mark Jones | Graham Charles | Marcus Waters

EXPLORATION
2008
PAPER
128 PAGES

The thrilling, generously illustrated account of circumnavigating South Georgia by kayak. (ANT265, $35.00)

The Unconquered, In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

by Scott Wallace

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
512 PAGES

Wallace shows plight of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon in this travelogue and portrait of Sydney Possuelo, founder of Brazil's Department of Isolated Indians (AMZ132, $30.00)

Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

by Stephen Ambrose

EXPLORATION
1996
HARD COVER
528 PAGES

A fast-paced, marvelously detailed account of the exploration of the American West. (USW03, $30.00)

Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

by Stephen Ambrose

EXPLORATION
1997
PAPER
528 PAGES

Ambrose recreates the high adventure and politics of late 18th-century America in this classic history, rich in details of Native American life, geography, flora and fauna. (USW20, $18.00)

The Universe Below, Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea

by William J. Broad

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
432 PAGES

An outstanding history of oceanic discovery and exploration. (OCE26, $27.95)

Unknown Lands, The Log Books of the Great Explorers

by Fran�ois Bellec

EXPLORATION
2002
HARD COVER
216 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

An exquisitely illustrated selection of eyewitness accounts, maps, and reports from the logs of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco de Gama, James Cook and others from the great age of exploration. (EXP32, $55.00)

Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific

by R. K. Howe

EXPLORATION
2007
HARD COVER
368 PAGES

This richly illustrated collection of scholarly articles on Pacific voyaging, past and present, features 400 color and black-and-white photographs, maps and diagrams, along with contributions by Ben Finney, Sam Low, Anne Salmond and other experts. (PAC177, $61.00)

The Valleys of the Assassins, and Other Persian Travels

by Freya Stark

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
292 PAGES

A remarkable account of adventures in remote Persia by the intrepid Freya Stark, originally published in 1934. Her expedition discovered the site of Lammassar, the second of the great fortresses to be discovered in the remote Alamut Valley (MDE53, $15.00)

Valverde's Gold, In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure

by Mark Honigsbaum

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
320 PAGES

The spellbinding account of a tough journey into Ecuador's Llanganati mountains in search of buried Spanish gold. (AND51, $19.00)

Victorian Lady Travellers

by Dorothy Middleton

EXPLORATION
1990
PAPER
182 PAGES

An inspiring account of seven terrific women and their adventures in heretofore unexplored lands. (EXP15, $15.95)

Visions of Paradise

by National Geographic Society

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
304 PAGES

A visually thrilling compilation of heavenly images from the archives of National Geographic. Photographers write of their encounters with earthly paradise. (NAT155, $35.00)

Volcano Above the Clouds

by Nova

EXPLORATION
2004
DVD

Robin Buxton, an African-born naturalist, disabled by polio who has long studied the mountain, and a Tanzanian park ranger summit Kilimanjaro with the Nova team in this drama. (EAF386, $19.95)

Voyage of the Beagle

by Charles Darwin

EXPLORATION
2002
PAPER
468 PAGES
FAVORITE

The wide-eyed tale of a young man on a five-year voyage that changed his life -- and our way of thinking about the world. First published in 1839, it's still a marvelous introduction to the wildlife, nature and allure of South America. (GPS02, $12.95)

Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin's Extraordinary Adventure Aboard Fitzroy's Famous Survey Ship

by James Taylor

EXPLORATION
2008
HARD COVER
192 PAGES

Taylor, curator at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, focuses on the design, history and mission of the HMS Beagle in this illustrated celebration Darwin and Fitzroy's celebrated 5-year voyage around the world, published to commemorate the 200thanniverary of Darwin's birth. (EXP78, $42.95)

The Voyage of the Narwhal

by Andrea Barrett

EXPLORATION
1999
PAPER
416 PAGES

A gripping work of historical imagination in the form of a 19th-century account of Arctic exploration. It's Barrett's evocative tale of a Philadelphia naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells who sets out on a foolhardy mission in search of the Franklin Expedition in the Canadian Arctic. (ARC40, $14.95)

Voyage to the End of the World, Tales from the Great Ice Barrier

by David Burke

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
200 PAGES

An illustrated account of a journey to the Ross Sea and Great Ice Barrier in seven chapters. Burke focuses particularly the history of Byrd, Ellsworth, Siple and other Antarctic explorers, including the Americans involved in Operation Deep Freeze. (ANT176, $23.95)

Voyage to the Southern Ocean, The Letters of Lieutenant William Reynolds from the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Anne H. Cleaver | E. Jeffrey Stann | William Reynolds

EXPLORATION
1988
HARD COVER
325 PAGES

These are the letters Reynolds wrote while a member of the Wilkes Expedition. (ANT155, $34.95)

Voyages

by Gordon Miller

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
200 PAGES

A maritime artist and illustrator, Gordon Miller captures the daring exploits of the golden age of European discovery in color paintings, maps and drawings, including the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake and James Cook. (EXP92, $55.00)

Voyages of Discovery

by David Boyle

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER
144 PAGES

Splendidly illustrated in color, this compact chronicle of the Golden Age of European exploration (1492-1522) traces the voyages of Columbus, Magellan and others to Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. Facsimile documents include ships' logs, drawings by explorers and letters home. (EXP90, $24.95)

Voyages of Discovery, Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

by Jame Ronda

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
351 PAGES

This collection features essays by well-known scholars on the history and legacy of Lewis & Clark, along with many primary source documents. (USW559, $19.95)

Voyaging, Southward from the Strait of Magellan

by Rockwell Kent

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
208 PAGES

An illustrated account of Rockwell's foolhardy voyage with a madman through magnificent Tierra del Fuego in a jury-rigged lifeboat. Both the text and striking woodcut illustrations communicate this dangerous landscape's dynamic character. (CHI29, $19.95)

Wake of the Invercauld, Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great-Granddaughter's Pilgrimage

by Madelene Ferguson Allen

EXPLORATION
1997
HARD COVER
256 PAGES

Great-granddaughter of one of the three survivors of the wreck of the Invercauld, Allen interweaves her own research and travels to the Auklands with excerpts from Holding's 19th-century diary of the shipwreck. With modern and archival photographs. (NZL31, $85.00)

Walking, The World's Most Exceptional Trails

by Eloise Napier

EXPLORATION
2003
HARD COVER
160 PAGES

An illustrated guide to 25 scenic walking trails throughout the world by a Welsh outdoor photographer and mountaineer. With maps and practical travel information. (WLK11, $29.95)

The Way to the Western Sea, Lewis and Clark Across the Continent

by David Lavender

EXPLORATION
1990
PAPER
444 PAGES

Characterized by its scholarship and sweeping narrative style, this book is a lively history of the expedition. (PNW35, $24.95)

We Die Alone

by David Howarth

EXPLORATION
2007
PAPER
208 PAGES

Howarth's riveting account of courage, determination and valor in Nazi-occupied Norway follows Jan Baalrud's extraordinary escape by ski across the Lyngen Alps. (NOR14, $16.95)

We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific

by David Lewis

EXPLORATION
1994
PAPER
464 PAGES

This engaging classic examines how Stone Age Polynesians may have navigated the Pacific. The scholarly volume will appeal to seafarers and modern Pacific travelers. (PAC35, $31.99)

Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer

by Chauncey Loomis | Andrea Barrett

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
350 PAGES

The tale of 19th-century Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his untimely death somewhere in Greenland. (ARC63, $19.00)

Where the Sea Breaks Its Back

by Corey Ford

EXPLORATION
1992
PAPER
206 PAGES

Ford paints a vivid portrait of Georg Steller and his first encounters with the wildlife of Kamchatka, the Bering Sea and Alaska in this gripping tale of discovery and hardship on Bering's Great Nordic Expedition of 1741. (ALA07, $16.95)

The White Rock, An Exploration of the Inca Heartland

by Hugh Thomson

EXPLORATION
2003
PAPER
316 PAGES
OUT OF PRINT

With chapters on Vilcabamba, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo and other sites, Thomson's engaging memoir mixes discovery, colorful personalities, history and archaeology. (AND36, $16.95)

White Spider, The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger

by Heinrich Harrer

EXPLORATION
1998
PAPER
364 PAGES

The classic tale of a young climber and the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1938. This edition includes photographs, maps, and a chronology of attempts on the North Face. (ALP09, $15.95)

White Waters and Black

by Gordon McCreagh | George Schaller

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
384 PAGES

A classic account of a two-year-long scientific expedition to the Bolivian Amazon, funny, sweet and thrilling. Originally published in 1923. (AMZ70, $17.50)

Who Reached the South Pole First?

by Sheila Griffin Llanas

EXPLORATION
2011
PAPER

Llanas covers the events of 1911-12 for elementary school kids in four chapters, nicely augmented by well-chosen archival photographs, timeline, glossary and other report-ready features. (ANT349, $7.95)

The Wilder Shores of Love

by Leslie Blanch

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
352 PAGES

A new edition of Lesley Blanch's spirited tale of the lives and loves of four uncommonly adventurous 19th-century European women in Arabia: Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby and Isabelle Eberhardt. Originally published in 1954, this is the best known of Blanch's many books (Marianne Faithfull has a song of the same name). As unconventional as her heroines, Lesley Blanch died in 2007, at age 102. (EXP28, $15.00)

Wilfred Thesiger in Africa

by Alexander Maitland

EXPLORATION
2010
HARD COVER

The companion to a centenary exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum, this book showcases Thesiger's remarkable photographs taking in the people and events over a long career that spanned the period from the coronation of Haile Selassie (born in Addis Ababa he was a guest), big game hunting, World War II and his time living among the Samburu in Kenya. With accompanying essays by friends and admirers. (AFR273, $34.95)

The Will to Climb

by Ed Viesturs

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
304 PAGES

In collaboration with writer and fellow mountaineer David Roberts, the great climber tackles the history and adventure of Annapurna. (HML103, $26.00)

The Winter Pony

by Iain Lawrence

EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

In this imaginative re-retelling for ages 9-11, Lawrence shows Scott's expedition from the POV of the title character, an Arctic pony in the Antarctic. (ANT346, $16.99)

With Byrd at the South Pole, the Story of Little America

by Joseph Rucker | Willard Van der Veer

EXPLORATION
1930
DVD

The Academy-Award winning tale of Byrd's expedition to Antarctica. (ANT165, $29.95)

Women Aviators

by Bernard Marck

EXPLORATION
2009
HARD COVER
240 PAGES

From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, these remarkable women defied tradition and took to the air in planes, rockets and spaceships. With hundreds of archival photographs, these profiles capture the thrill and derring-do of early flight. (GEN522, $45.00)

Women Explorers

by Sharon M. Hannon

EXPLORATION
2007
HARD COVER
64 PAGES

An illustrated overview. (TVL122, $12.95)

Women into the Unknown, A Sourcebook on Women Explorers and Travelers

by Marion Tinglin

EXPLORATION
1989
HARD COVER
382 PAGES

A library-style reference to female travelers of the 19th and 20th centuries. (EXP20, $110.95)

Women Travelers, Adventurers, and Trailblazers 1850-1950

by Alexandra Lapierre | Christel Mouchard

EXPLORATION
2007
HARD COVER
240 PAGES

One hundred years of intrepid women, beautifully presented in an oversized hardcover with 200 black-and-white and color illustrations. (EXP50, $45.00)

Wonders of The Himalayas

by Francis E. Younghusband

EXPLORATION
1993
HARD COVER
210 PAGES

First published in 1924, this Great Game classic covers Youngblood's many treks and adventures throughout the Tibetan Plateau, including Turkestan, Hunza, Kashmir and the Chinese Karakaram. (HML104, $48.50)

The World's Most Dangerous Places

by Robert Young Pelton

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2000
PAPER
992 PAGES

Pelton's popular chronicle of travel in the world's most dangerous and inhospitable locales. (GEN123, $21.95)

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
573 PAGES
FAVORITE

Cherry-Garrard's epic midwinter jaunt to an emperor penguin rookery is just a warm-up for the main event: Scott's doomed last expedition. (ANT23, $18.00)

Xanadu, Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of the East

by John Man

EXPLORATION
2010
PAPER
352 PAGES

As in Genghis Khan and Attila, John Man interweaves his own travels with history and biography, this time in the footsteps of Marco Polo across Asia to fabled Xanadu. (EXP84, $15.95)

A Year With a Whaler

by Walter Noble Burns

EXPLORATION
2006
PAPER
250 PAGES

Responding to a newspaper ad in 1890, Walter Noble Burns shipped out from San Francisco on a whaling expedition aboard the bark Alexander to the Chukchi and Bering Seas. He documents a way of life and time long gone in this facsimile reprint. (OCE101, $17.95)

The Young Adventurer's Guide To Everest, From Avalanche To Zopkio

by Jonathan Chester

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
48 PAGES
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

Youngsters will be captivated by Chester's superbly photographed, informative A-to-Z introduction to mountaineering. (NPL68, $7.95)

The Zambesi Expedition, To the Zambesi River and Its Tributaries

by David Livingstone

EXPLORATION
2001
PAPER
433 PAGES

Livingstone's original account of his second expedition to Africa, first published in 1864 -- a sympathetic portrait of African peoples, rich in nature, culture and politics. (SAF136, $25.95)

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