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Blowout

By Robert Orrell

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale

The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps

By Peter Whitfield

Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

By Sandeep Jauhar

I Presume: The story of H.M. Stanley's greatest triumph.

By Anstruther, Ian

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

By Wade Davis

The Voyages of Captain Cook

By James Cook, Sir John Barrow, Simon Marshall, Tom Griffith

Awfully Ancient: Gory Gladiators, Savage Centurions and Caesar's Sticky End: A menacing history of the unruly Romans!

By Tom Morgan-Jones, Kay Barnham

Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Before Columbus CB

By Fernandez-Ar

The Sinbad Voyage

By Severin, Tim

Thin White Line

By Andy Cave

Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World

By Brian M. Fagan

Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook

By Nicholas Thomas

Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler's Wolf Packs: Diaries of a Merchant Navy Radio Officer, 1939-45

By Alex Anderson

Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth

By Ed Wright

Xanadu

By John Man

The Sea Hunters

By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

By Hugh Thomas

Captain James Cook

By Richard Hough

Almost Human

By Lee Berger

Captain Cook: The Seamen's Seaman

By Alan Villiers

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

By Mitchell Zuckoff