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History of Discovery & Exploration

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New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration

By Whitfield, Peter

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The Last Adventure (The Eventful Century)

By Tim Healey

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The Vikings

By Magnus Magnusson

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Twa Tribes~Scots among the Native Americans: Hugo Reid, Alexander Ross and Charles McKenzie

By Bryan, Tom

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Voyages of Discovery : Three Centuries of Natural History

By Rice, Tony

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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

By Tim Jeal

The Oxford Companion to World Exploration

By Buisseret, David

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail

By Stephen Taylor

Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures: Facing Up - Facing the Frozen Ocean

By Grylls, Bear

Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition

By Cookman, Scott

Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

By Moore, Peter

Alone: Classic of Polar Solitude and Adventure: The Classic Polar Adventure

By Byrd, Richard E.

Promised Lands: Stories of Power and Poverty in the Third World

By Vallely, Paul, Porritt, Jonathan, Goldwater, Mike

The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Penguin Little Black Classics)

By Hakluyt, Richard

Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia

By Brooke, Alan, Brandon, David

Embassy to the Eastern Courts: America's Secret First Pivot Toward Asia, 1832 37

By Andrew C. A. Jampoler

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

By Millas, Juan Jose, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bunstead, Thomas, Hahn, Daniel

Thesiger

By Asher, Michael

Monsters: History's most evil men and women

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon

Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

By Fiennes Bt OBE, Sir Ranulph

The Vikings

By Roesdahl, Else

A Book of Voyages

By O’Brian, Patrick

I May Be Some Time

By Spufford, Francis

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

By Holmes, Richard

Facing the Frozen Ocean

By Grylls, Bear

A World Lit Only by Fire

By Manchester, WILLIAM

The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer

By Bredin, Miles

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired ‘Moby Dick’

By Philbrick, Nathaniel

A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire

By Murray, Nicholas

The Blue Nile

By Moorehead, Alan