9780764944871 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, June 1, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Among humanity s oldest written communications, maps document the histories, and reflect the sensibilities, of the cultures that produced them.

9780764947766 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2009), cover price $13.99

9780764953194 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2010), cover price $13.99

9780847813001 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, March 1, 1991, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Maps show the world as it was known during the seventeenth century

9781781450444 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2013, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A lavish photographic record of the first ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953Approximately 400 unique photographs, along with descriptive captions, transport the reader from base camp to the snow-clad slopes and ridges of Mount Everest, and to the peak itself.

9781579652203 | Artisan, September 9, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: More than three hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs representing every area of the globe as well as great moments in history from the Royal Geographic Society are accompanied by interviews and essays by Edmund HIllary, Richard Leakey, Christina Dodwell, and John Hemming, among others.

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

9781904027911 | Reprint edition (Elliot & Thompson Ltd, October 1, 2011), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Combines archive material from a book of the same name first published in 1889 with anecdotes from well-known modern female travelers to offer a fascinating insight into the way that travel has changed for women over the last century From reminders to take your own bath with you to tips on how to hail a cab, today's intrepid female explorer has much to learn from her 19th century forebears.

9781103151424 | Bibliolife, January 30, 2009, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781154547511 | General Books, May 5, 2010, cover price $12.22

9781556708176 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, March 1, 1998, cover price $60.00

9780548357736 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2007, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

9780548300428 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2007, cover price $27.95

9780747581383 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: A celebration of 175 years of the RGS, from the early expeditions of Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, Younghusband in Tibet and Freya Stark in the Middle East, to the postwar achievements of Hunt and Hillary on Everest.