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It uses original archival sources to give the reader a chance to hear a first-hand historical account of exploration in the nineteenth century, and the challenges that were faced by women specifically.

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French Exploration of New Zealand and the Pacific (1769 - 1824)

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A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of todays leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers.

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January 2012 will mark the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's arrival at the South Pole with his team. After a gruelling 11 month journey, Scott was to discover the tent and flag of the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.A Tale For Our Generation reproduces the heart wrenching and fascinating journals of two members of Scott's team.

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Told in a very relaxed and sometimes - as you might expect - very funny Palin style.' David Baddiel, Daily Mail

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The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in Western Australia. They never arrived. Somewher

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An enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day.

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He provides a scholarly look at U.S. diplomacy leading up to the era of the War on Terror.

Sullivan explains how over the past 50 years the U.S. has come to succeed Europe as ruler of the global economic system.

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In 1757, when twelve-year-old Samuel Hearne joined the Royal Navy as an apprentice to the famous fighting captain Samuel Hood, he was embarking on a life of high adventure.

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The work examines a cross section of geographers from a variety of subfields within the discipline, from ancient to modern.

Each entry examines the career and impact of the individual and then provides selected bibliographies of works by and about the person.

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How an imagined land became a real continent

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Covers the range of history from prehistoric times to the present, offering biographical entries on the most famous real and fictional women travellers, explorers, and adventurers from all countries of the world.

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With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American Westthrough the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time.

This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions.

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Covering the adventures of coastal and ocean explorers who made key discoveries and landmark observations from northern California up the coastline to Alaska during the mid-1700s to the early 1800s, this anthology of primary source journal entries, book excerpts, maps, and drawings enables readers to "discover" the Northwest Coast for themselves.

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Provides an account of the three-year Arctic voyage to the North Pole and the team's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, and hunger, and their accomplishment of travelling farther north than any other Western expedition.

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What happened to the "Mary Celeste" and her missing crew From the author of "Raising the Hunley," this is a remarkable investigation into the most famous unsolved sea mystery of all time.

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Including a new Epilogue, this is "one helluva read" ("Newsweek") and a chilling first-person account of extreme survival in the Siberian Arctic, rediscovered by Jon Krakauer and David Roberts. "Vivid . . . [a work of] terrifying beauty."--"The Boston Globe."

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In 1854, when explorer John Rae returned from the Arctic with news that the final survivors of the Franklin expedition, while starving to death, had degenerated into cannibalism, Jane enlisted the celebrated Charles Dickens to repudiate him.