Geographical discovery & exploration
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Geographical discovery & exploration
Paperback. A fascinating account of the early days of Antarctic exploration from an expert storyteller. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393323214
- ISBN
- 9780393323214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.14
€ 26.99
€ 23.14
Paperback. "The compass' rocky evolution is charted with an enthusiast's passion..A fascinating adventure."-Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: BTH; RGR; TRLN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393327137
- ISBN
- 9780393327137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.18
€ 27.99
€ 24.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 254 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; RGR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ronsdale Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781553800392
- ISBN
- 9781553800392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.56
€ 26.99
€ 18.56
Paperback. An eye-witness account, published in 1857, of a five-year Arctic voyage in extreme conditions, ending with the crew abandoning ship. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration. Num Pages: 654 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QSR; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 654
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781108033350
- ISBN
- 9781108033350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
paperback. One of the greatest 19th-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his descriptions of the flora and fauna of the continent'. Translator(s): Wilson, Jason. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DNF; PD; RGR; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Abridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445534
- ISBN
- 9780140445534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.60
€ 19.99
€ 15.60
Paperback. Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 illus. BIC Classification: 1FCS; RGR; WTL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218787
- ISBN
- 9780812218787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.50
€ 43.50
Paperback. Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. Series: Voyages Promotion. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753809877
- ISBN
- 9780753809877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.54
€ 8.54
Paperback. Editor(s): Allen, Benedict. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 44. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206124
- ISBN
- 9780571206124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.70
€ 21.99
€ 15.70
Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527-36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Editor(s): Stavans, Ilan. Translator(s): Frye, David. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 Map. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JB; RGR; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393918151
- ISBN
- 9780393918151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.12
€ 19.99
€ 18.12
Hardback. One of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century, this new translation makes Cabeza de Vaca's adventures available to a wide English-speaking audience for the first time. Translator(s): Morrow, Baker H. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JB; HBJK; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826350633
- ISBN
- 9780826350633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.12
€ 53.12
The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in th...
Amundsen, Captian Roald; Huntford, Roland; Na...
Paperback. The first explorer to reach the South Pole recounts the rigors of his expedition. Num Pages: 896 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 1QMP; 3JJC; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 896
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815411277
- ISBN
- 9780815411277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.26
€ 35.26
Paperback. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. Cabeza de Vaca ultimately wrote an extraordinary chronicle of his journey. This work conjoins the facts recounted by Cabeza with the author's own research in the history and culture of 16th century North America to describe this epic journey. Num Pages: 336 pages, P. BIC Classification: RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465068418
- ISBN
- 9780465068418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.28
€ 19.99
€ 19.28
Paperback. In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. This title tells the story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1K; 3H; JFHF; RGR; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571243785
- ISBN
- 9780571243785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. In this graphic and yet surprisingly funny account of her and others' extraordinary careers, Lankford unveils a world in which park rangers struggle to maintain their idealism in the face of danger, disillusionment, and, sometimes, death. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DQ; RGR; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 21.
- Publisher
- Falcon Guides
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762752638
- ISBN
- 9780762752638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.63
€ 17.99
€ 15.63
hardcover. Argues that Fremont used both a radical form of the picturesque and an imaginary map to create an aesthetic craving for expansion Num Pages: 1 photograph, 23 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; JFC; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bison Books United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803238077
- ISBN
- 9780803238077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.27
€ 31.99
€ 28.27
Hardcover. *A fascinating study of the early American experience in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean *Includes previously unpublished and rarely seen personal travel accounts complemented by more than 30 illustrations Num Pages: 432 pages, 33 colour in 20pp plates. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JF; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 36. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774166679
- ISBN
- 9789774166679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.71
€ 46.99
€ 41.71
Hardcover. This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790-1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311313
- ISBN
- 9781137311313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. This study of exploration during the Renaissance shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. This text was awarded the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize in 1993. Num Pages: 296 pages, 75 halftones. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJK; HBLH; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 205 x 17. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674618763
- ISBN
- 9780674618763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.06
€ 50.99
€ 42.06
Paperback. Examines the rise of the British empire and the various debates among historians of imperialism over the past two hundred years. It discusses why the empire is so attractive to historians, why there is so much debate and controversy surrounding the subject. Series: Issues in Historiography. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1Q; HBG; HBJD1; HBLH; RGR. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719067938
- ISBN
- 9780719067938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.58
€ 21.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 colour illus & maps. BIC Classification: 1M; 3J; HBJM; HBLH; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 170. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925377323
- ISBN
- 9781925377323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 25.98
€ 35.99
€ 25.98