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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

By Sancton, Julian

Civilization: The West and the Rest

By Ferguson, Niall

Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific

By Withey, Lynne

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Penguin Classics)

By Dana, Richard, Philbrick, Thomas

Einstein’s Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe

By Sen, Paul

How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

By North, Ryan

Christopher Columbus: The Dream and the Obsession

By Granzotto, Gianni, Sartarelli, S.

JOURNEY TO THE POLAR SEA

By Franklin, Sir John, Scott, R.F., Delgado, James

Sisters Of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels

By Soskice, Janet

Courage at Sea: Tales of Heroic Voyages

By James, Naomi

River Kings: A Times Book of the Year 2021

By Jarman, Cat

Fire on the Moon

By Mailer, Norman

Southern Voyages, A.D.1492-1616 (v. 2) (European Discovery of America)

By Morison, Samuel Eliot

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

By NO AUTHOR, Illustrated by J. Pavlin & G. Seda.

The RA Expeditions

By Heyerdahl, Thor

River Kings: A Times Book of the Year 2021

By Jarman, Cat

Great Explorers: TO THE ENDS OF EARTH: From the Equator to the Poles

By Balchin, Jon

Christopher Columbus (Life & Times)

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin Classics)

By Las Casas, Bartolomé, Pagden, Anthony

Discovery of the Nile

By Guadalupi, G

The River Sea: The Amazon in History, Myth, and Legend

By De Bruhl, Marshall

Captain Shakespear: William Henry Shakespear

By Winstone, H. V. F.

The Guinness Book of Explorers and Exploration

By Gavet-Imbert, Michele

Seek The Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922

By Nugent, Frank

Brendan Voyage

By Severin, Tim, Trondur Patursson

Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power

By Ferguson, Niall

South with Endurance - Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 - the Photographs of Frank Hurley

By Hurley, F.Jack

Endeavour: The Story Of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage (Voyages)

By Peter Aughton, Caroline Brooke, Ken Wilson

The Life of José María Sobral: Scientist, Diarist, and Pioneer in Antarctica (Springer Biographies)

By Tahan, Mary R.

Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

By Robert Kurson