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Exploration: A Very Short Introduction

By Stewart A. Weaver

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9780199946952 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 20, 2015, cover price $11.95

Explorers of Antiquity: From Alexander the Great to Marco Polo

Product Description: Crossing geographic and cultural boundaries at a time when much of the world remained uncharted was a challenge faced by ancient explorers. Long before the Golden Age of Exploration, an assortment of travellers ventured into the unknown, uncovering untapped riches of land and resources in the process...read more

By Kenneth Pletcher (editor)

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9781622750184 | Britannica Educational Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $35.25 | About this edition: Crossing geographic and cultural boundaries at a time when much of the world remained uncharted was a challenge faced by ancient explorers.

Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery

By Ray W. Coye

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9780300170283 | Yale Univ Pr, March 19, 2013, cover price $26.00

On Assignment With National Geographic: The Inside Story of Legendary Explorers, Photographers, and Adventurers

Product Description: Join National Geographic archaeologists and adventurers, explorers and scientists on this thrilling jaunt through more than 125 years of research, discovery, and unforgettable photojournalism. Featuring behind-the-scenes tales and show-stopping imagery, this book captures the heart of the Society's fascinating history, from its earliest days as a scientific club to its growth into one of the world's largest geographic organizations...read more

By Mark Collins Jenkins

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9781426210136 | 125 anv edition (Natl Geographic Society, January 1, 2013), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Join National Geographic archaeologists and adventurers, explorers and scientists on this thrilling jaunt through more than 125 years of research, discovery, and unforgettable photojournalism.

The Nile River

By Claire Throp

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9781410947918 | Raintree Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $8.29

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9781410947840 | Raintree Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $29.32

Explorers: Great Tales of Adventure and Endurance

By Royal Geographical Society (corporate author)

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9780756667375 | Dk Pub, September 20, 2010, cover price $40.00 | also contains Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

By Dorling Kindersley, Inc. (corporate author)

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9780756667375, titled "Explorers: Great Tales of Adventure and Endurance" | Dk Pub, September 20, 2010, cover price $40.00 | also contains Explorers: Great Tales of Adventure and Endurance

Paperback:

9780756692384 | Dk Pub, April 16, 2012, cover price $21.95

The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations That Changed the Modern World

Product Description: The nature of the maiden voyage is deeply captivating. Though the oceans still hold vast opportunities for uncharted exploration, our land resources have been bravely explored and charted for hundreds of years. Very few places remain mysterious and untamable to man, and this transformation is due to imaginative and fearless explorers...read more

By Kenneth Pletcher (editor)

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9781615300280 | 1 edition (Britannica Educational Pub, December 20, 2009), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The nature of the maiden voyage is deeply captivating.

Opening Up North America, 1497-1800

Describes the history of voyages to the United States and Canada, including those of Alexander Mackenzie, John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, and David Thompson.

By Ken Albala, John S. Bowman (editor), Caroline Cox and Maurice Isserman (editor)

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9780816052615 | Ill edition (Facts on File, March 1, 2005), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Describes the history of voyages to the United States and Canada, including those of Alexander Mackenzie, John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, and David Thompson.

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9781604131963 | Revised edition (Chelsea House Pub, December 1, 2009), cover price $35.00

The Book of Exploration

Product Description: A chronological tour of the history of exploration in the style of The Map Book, by the world's leading expert. Before the turn of the 19th century, ventures into uncharted lands required material or spiritual reward to justify the perils of shipwreck and hostile natives, and dangers yet unknown...read more

By Raymond John Howgego

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9781608190591 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 27, 2009, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A chronological tour of the history of exploration in the style of The Map Book, by the world's leading expert.

Time Great Discoveries

Product Description: Here is a book designed to inspire the heart, challenge the mind, delight the eye, engage the armchair traveler and, yes, encourage your bootheels to be wanderin'. The editors of Time have sought out the most exciting new discoveries in the fields of geography, paleontology, astronomy and archaeology and combined them with classic tales of exploration to present a book that is vast in scope and pulsing with the energy of fresh knowledge...read more

By Kelly Knauer and Time Magazine (corporate author)

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9781603200837 | Time Inc Home Entertainment, October 13, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Here is a book designed to inspire the heart, challenge the mind, delight the eye, engage the armchair traveler and, yes, encourage your bootheels to be wanderin'.

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9780140213560, titled "The Chicanos: Mexican American Voices" | Viking Pr, September 1, 1971, cover price $3.95 | also contains The Chicanos: Mexican American Voices

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

A distinguished scholar traces the history of exploration from a global perspective, following the pathfinders and their expeditions over the course of five millennia to the farthest reaches of the world, from ancient Egypt, through the merchants and missionaries of the Silk Roads, to the discovery of the New World and the nineteenth-century expeditions to Africa, the Arctic, North America, and the South Pacific. Reprint.

By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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Hardcover:

9780670064977 | Viking Pr, April 5, 2007, cover price $36.00

9780393062595 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Presenting the subject on a truly global scale, historian Fernâandez-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world.

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9780393330915 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A distinguished scholar traces the history of exploration from a global perspective, following the pathfinders and their expeditions over the course of five millennia to the farthest reaches of the world, from ancient Egypt, through the merchants and missionaries of the Silk Roads, to the discovery of the New World and the nineteenth-century expeditions to Africa, the Arctic, North America, and the South Pacific.

9780199219339 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 27, 2007, cover price $23.15

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

Sold out in its original limited edition, a collection of travel adventures includes Alexander von Humboldt's encounter with South Africa's electric eels, Umberto Nobile's lament over the loss of his Zeppelin in an ice floe, and Jacque Cousteau's account of the planet from beneath the ocean's surface.

By Fergus Fleming (editor) and Annabel Merullo (editor)

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9781585677665 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Sold out in its original limited edition, a collection of travel adventures includes Alexander von Humboldt's encounter with South Africa's electric eels, Umberto Nobile's lament over the loss of his Zeppelin in an ice floe, and Jacque Cousteau's account of the planet from beneath the ocean's surface.

Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

Covering three centuries of exploration, the author serves up forty-three tales of misadventure, from the ill-fated 1820 search for the Northwest passage that resulted in crew members eating one another to De Salle's navigation blunders. Reprint.

By Fergus Fleming

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9780871138996 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, September 9, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Covering three centuries of exploration, the author serves up forty-three tales of misadventure, from the ill-fated 1820 search for the Northwest passage that resulted in crew members eating one another to De Salle's navigation blunders.

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9780802142726 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, June 5, 2006), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Covering three centuries of exploration, the author serves up forty-three tales of misadventure, from the ill-fated 1820 search for the Northwest passage that resulted in crew members eating one another to De Salle's navigation blunders.

Classic Exploration Stories: Enthralling Accounts of Journeys of Discovery

A collection of exploration stories includes contributions by Charles Darwin, Ernest Scott, John Wesley Powell, Ernest Shackleton, Richard Hardin Davis, J. T. Headley, Marco Polo, Fridtjof Nansen, and many others. Original.

By Stephen Brennan (editor)

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9781592282852 | Lyons Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of exploration stories includes contributions by Charles Darwin, Ernest Scott, John Wesley Powell, Ernest Shackleton, Richard Hardin Davis, J.

The Greatest Exploration Stories Ever Told: True Tales of Search and Discovery

Product Description: This collection includes stories of exploration in the American interior, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, and Africa, as well as the seas and polar regions. These fascinating tales are told by the people whose bravery, determination, willpower, and strength contributed to our vast knowledge about the world...read more

By Darren Brown (editor)

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9781585747771 | Lyons Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This collection includes stories of exploration in the American interior, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, and Africa, as well as the seas and polar regions.

Exploraciones Y Descubrimientos Del Mundo

By Joaquin Navarro (editor), Oceano (corporate author) and Rafael Santamaria (editor)

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9788449421167 | Oceano Editorial, December 1, 2002, cover price $64.00

Unknown Lands: The Log Books of the Great Explorers

This volume documents the period of exploration and enlightenment when the Old World began to open its mind to the wonders and mysteries of the New World. Five centuries of eye-witness accounts, drawings, and notes, taken straight from the log books of such famous explorers as Christopher Columbus.

By Elizabeth Ayre (trans), Francois Bellec and Lisa Davidson (trans)

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9780715632529 | Gardners Books, August 31, 2007, cover price $58.20 | About this edition: This volume documents the period of exploration and enlightenment when the Old World began to open its mind to the wonders and mysteries of the New World.

9781585672011 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: An illustrated celebration of the mapmakers and mythmakers from the European age of exploration features dozens of maps, paintings, and engravings detailing the European vision of lands beyond the horizon.

9780070317574, titled "The Pilot''s Radio Communications Handbook" | 4th rev edition (Tab Books, March 1, 1994), cover price $29.95 | also contains The Pilot''s Radio Communications Handbook

The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook

By Paul E. Illman

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Hardcover:

9780070318311, titled "The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook" | 5th edition (McGraw-Hill, May 1, 1998), cover price $39.95

9780070317574 | 4th rev edition (Tab Books, March 1, 1994), cover price $29.95 | also contains Unknown Lands: The Log Books of the Great Explorers

Paperback:

9780071790482, titled "The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook" | 6 edition (McGraw-Hill Professional Pub, August 14, 2012), cover price $35.00

9780070318328, titled "The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook" | 5th edition (McGraw-Hill Professional Pub, May 1, 1998), cover price $34.95

9780070317567 | Rev 4th edition (McGraw-Hill, March 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | also contains Alfred's Basic Piano Theory Book: Level 3

Incredible Journeys: Adventures into the Unknown

Tells true stories about mountaineers, cavers, jungle explorers, and aviators, exploring active volcanoes, wild seas, and uncharted territories

By Rick Wilkinson

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9781864484526 | Allen & Unwin, October 1, 1997, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Tells true stories about mountaineers, cavers, jungle explorers, and aviators, exploring active volcanoes, wild seas, and uncharted territories

The Chicanos: Mexican American Voices

By Ed Ludwig (compiler)

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9780140213560 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1971, cover price $3.95 | also contains Time Great Discoveries

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