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Marco Polo's China
By: Haw, Stephen
Published by: RoutledgeCurzon
Re-examines Marco Polo's book about his journey to China in the wake of criticism by some scholars that he had never been there. This work clarifies Polo's itineraries in China and proposes identifications of places mentioned. It concludes that Polo's work is accurate, and a useful source from an extraordinary period of China's history.
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Price: $170.00
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A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont and the Claiming of the American West
By: Roberts, David
Published by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
John C. Frémont, nearly forgotten today, was one of the giants of nineteenth-century America. He led five expeditions into the American West in the 1840s and 1850s, covering a greater area than any other explorer. His expedition reports - ghost-written by his beautiful and talented wife, Jessie Benton Frémont - were bestsellers in their day. Riding the wave of his popularity, he captured the Republican Party nomination for president in 1856 but narrowly lost the election.
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Price: $21.95
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On Her Own Terms
By: Stein, Barbara R.
Published by: University of California Press
At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Out of Our Minds
By: Fabian, Johannes
Published by: University of California Press
Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Central Africa, provides a new view of those early European explorers and their encounters with Africans.
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Pioneer Life and Frontier Adventures: An Authentic Record of the Romantic Life and Daring Exploits of Kit Carson and His Companions, from His Own Narrative
By: Peters, DeWitt C.
Published by: Digital Scanning, Inc.
Pioneer Life and Frontier Adventures is an authentic record of the life and times of Christopher “Kit” Carson and his companions in the American West. Derived from Carson’s own narrative, as well as the observations of the author and others, DeWitt C. Peters presents a sweeping view of the lands and peoples of the territories both east and west of the Rockies. He gives us a Carson stripped of the excesses of the dime novels; a sober, stalwart and truthful man who spoke French and Spanish, as well as several Indian dialects. He was an expert on native customs and habits. His early explorations paved the way for the westward expansion of the United States, and his abilities with a rifle created colorful legends.
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Sea of Glory
By: Philbrick, Nathaniel
Published by: Penguin Books Australia
"Among the best books of this or any other year."—Los Angeles Times Book Review. America’s first frontier was not the West; it was the sea—and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838– 1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean—and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution, and much more.
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The Silence Calling
By: Bowden, Tim
Published by: Allen & Unwin
The Silence Calling is a fascinating and often moving account of the work and life of Australians in Antarctica. It traces the development of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) from the first day the Australian flag was raised on Australia's remote Southern Ocean outpost of Heard Island on Boxing Bay 1947 up to the present day.
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Price: $57.00
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Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure
By: Ross, E. Denison
Published by: Routledge
As well as including Sherley's own account of his journey into Persia in 1600, this valuable edition includes the main works dealing with Anthony Sherley and his life.
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Price: $175.00
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Skeletons On the Zahara
By: King, Dean
Published by: Aspect Warner
In 1815, twelve American sailors washed up on the shore of North Africa. Captured and sold into slavery, they were then dragged along on an insane journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara - a region no Westerners had ever explored. Rain was expected once every six years and it was so hot that cadavers naturally mummified. Along the way the Americans would encounter everything that could possibly test them: barbarism, murder, starvation, death, dehydration, and hostile tribes that roamed the desert on armies of camels.
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