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Paperback:
9780330426732 | Pan Macmillan, April 1, 2006, cover price $15.95
Product Description: It is Constantinople in 1035, and Thorgils has become a member of the Varangian lifeguard, where he witnesses the glories of the richest city on earth. He embarks on a campaign launched to recover Sicily from the Saracens. After years of traveling, Thorgils retreats to Sweden, but is eventually summoned again to assist in coordinating William the Conqueror’s invasion of England...read more
Hardcover:
9781405041164 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, April 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It is Constantinople in 1035, and Thorgils has become a member of the Varangian lifeguard, where he witnesses the glories of the richest city on earth.
In London, 1020: a few weeks have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the Irish Church only to find himself at the centre of a capricious love affair with Aelfgifu, wife of Knut the Great, ruler of England. A passionate relationship between two unlikely lovers begins to unfold, which forebodes uncontrollable consequences.
Hardcover:
9781405041140 | Pan Macmillan, July 1, 2005, cover price $22.40 | About this edition: In London, 1020: a few weeks have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the Irish Church only to find himself at the centre of a capricious love affair with Aelfgifu, wife of Knut the Great, ruler of England.
Hardcover:
9780689121340 | Atheneum, April 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Retraces the tracks of Genghis Khan's horde as they established history's largest empire, tells of the legends surrounding the Great Khan's life, and explains how Mongolian culture has changed little since the Middle Ages
Paperback:
9780815412878 | Cooper Square Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $16.95
9780020819301 | Reprint edition (Collins Pub San Francisco, June 1, 1993), cover price $13.00
Hardcover:
9780465076987 | Basic Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Retraces the journeys of castaways and pirates to discover the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's classic, describing his undertaking of a perilous sea voyage and search for the Miskutu Indians in Nicaragua and Honduras.
Paperback:
9780465076994 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, May 21, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Retraces the journeys of castaways and pirates to discover the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's classic, describing his undertaking of a perilous sea voyage and search for the Miskutu Indians in Nicaragua and Honduras.
Product Description: The Mississippi River has intrigued the footloose for centuries. Here, for the first time in paperback, are briskly told biographies of the chief protagonists in the drama, with Old Man River as the constant and invincible antagonist...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780816639526 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Mississippi River has intrigued the footloose for centuries.
Product Description: Nearly 900 years ago, Duke Godfrey de Bouillon set out on the First Crusade--and in our own time, author Tim Severin retraced his steps. The destination: Jerusalem, city of gold. For more than eight years, Severin followed the historic trail, riding through northern Europe's green countryside and into the heat of the Near East...read more
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9781842122785 | Phoenix, June 1, 2001, cover price $12.98 | About this edition: Nearly 900 years ago, Duke Godfrey de Bouillon set out on the First Crusade--and in our own time, author Tim Severin retraced his steps.
The author, an adventurer and travel writer, follows Melville into the deep blue sea in search of his literary creation, the white whale.
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Hardcover:
9780754015574 | Largeprint edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: The author, an adventurer and travel writer, follows Melville into the deep blue sea in search of his literary creation, the white whale.
9780783893624 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The author, an adventurer and travel writer, follows Melville into the deep blue sea in search of his literary creation, the white whale.
9780316645959 | Little Brown Uk, October 1, 2000, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Herman Melville's famous novel Moby Dick immortalised the idea of a battling white sperm whale roaming the ocean - but could such a beast exist?
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9780306810459 | Da Capo Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick immortalized the idea of a mammoth sperm whale roaming the seas, wreaking havoc on all that crossed its path.
9780349112336 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 5, 2000), cover price $16.20 | About this edition: Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick' immortalized the concept of a battling white sperm whale, but did such a creature really exist?
Hardcover:
9781850891628, titled "Brendan Voyage" | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, December 1, 1987), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew from Dingle, Ireland across the North Atlantic in a thirty-six-foot leather boat to prove that a sixth-century Irish monk, St.
9780070563353 | McGraw-Hill, April 1, 1982, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew from Dingle, Ireland across the North Atlantic in a thirty-six-foot leather boat to prove that a sixth-century Irish monk, St.
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9780375755248 | Modern Library, April 1, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew across the North Atlantic in a thirty-six-foot leather boat, to prove the legend that a sixth-century Irish monk, St.
9780380437115 | Avon Books, May 1, 1979, cover price $2.75 | also contains Diary of a Waitress: The Not-so-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl, Diary of a Waitress: The Not-so-glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl
The author, an adventurer and travel writer, follows Melville into the deep blue in search of his great literary creation, the White Whale.
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Hardcover:
9780465076963 | Basic Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author, an adventurer and travel writer, follows Melville into the deep blue sea in search of his literary creation, the white whale.
Hardcover:
9780786705184 | Carroll & Graf Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Profiles naturalist Alfred Wallace and his journey to the Malay Archipelago
Paperback:
9780786707218 | Da Capo Pr, December 20, 1999, cover price $14.95
Product Description: The China Voyage is the extraordinary story of how Tim Severin and his crew made maritime history by sailing across the Pacific on a bamboo raft. Their purpose: to test the theory that Asian mariners reached America some 2,000 years ago...read more
Hardcover:
9780201483949 | Perseus Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Documents the author's Pacific journey in a sixty-foot bamboo raft to test a scholar's theory that Asian navigators were the first to discover North America
9780788155970, titled "China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft" | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The China Voyage is the extraordinary story of how Tim Severin and his crew made maritime history by sailing across the Pacific on a bamboo raft.
Paperback:
9780201441970 | Perseus Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The China Voyage is the extraordinary story of how Tim Severin and his crew made maritime history by sailing across the Pacific on a bamboo raft.
9780788191367 | Diane Pub Co, December 1, 1994, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The China Voyage is the extraordinary story of how Tim Severin and his crew made maritime history by sailing across the Pacific on a bamboo raft.
Hardcover:
9780525246145 | E P Dutton, September 1, 1987, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Attempts to recreate the voyage of Ulysses and identify the likely position of places mentioned in Homer's account of his adventures
Product Description: In 1984 the author built a replica Bronze Age galley and with a crew of modern Argonauts retraced Jason's route of thirty-three centuries earlier in search of the Golden Fleece. The 1500 mile voyage took them from present-day Greece, across the Aegean Sea, through the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara, through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea, along the entire northern coast of Turkey, ending up in the state of Georgia in the Soviet Union...read more
Hardcover:
9780708983591 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, September 1, 1986), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In 1984 the author built a replica Bronze Age galley and with a crew of modern Argonauts retraced Jason's route of thirty-three centuries earlier in search of the Golden Fleece.
The author recounts his experiences traveling by motorcycle along the route Marco Polo described in his Travels, and clears up some puzzling aspects of the seven-hundred-year-old account
Hardcover:
9780872260122 | Peter Bedrick Books, May 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences traveling by motorcycle along the route Marco Polo described in his Travels, and clears up some puzzling aspects of the seven-hundred-year-old account
Investigating the historical background of the Arabian Nights voyages of Sinbad, a noted explorer follows the ancient Arab sea routes to the Orient aboard a replica of an early Arabian wooden ship
Hardcover:
9780399127571 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1983, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Investigating the historical background of the Arabian Nights voyages of Sinbad, a noted explorer follows the ancient Arab sea routes to the Orient aboard a replica of an early Arabian wooden ship
Paperback:
9780860097549 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, January 1, 1986), cover price $17.95
Hardcover:
9780671498139 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1986, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Dustjacket is tattered and torn mostly around edges.
Hardcover:
9780316781756 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1976, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Hardback book with dust jacket titled THE ORIENTAL ADVENTURE: Explorers of the East.
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