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Jefferson's America

By Julie M. Fenster

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

By Richard Holmes

To the End of the Earth: The Race to Solve Polar Exploration's Greatest Mystery

By Tom Avery

The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier

By Tim Flannery

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By Caroline Alexander

Sleepyhead: The 20th anniversary edition of the gripping novel that changed crime fiction for ever (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Billingham, Mark, Child, Lee

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf

The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

By Tzvetan Todorov

Columbus

By Fernández-Armesto, Dr. Felipe

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

From Khartoum to Jerusalem: The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885-1933)

By Dr Rachel Mairs (Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading, UK)

Knowledge is Light: Travellers in the Near East

By Katherine Salahi

The Wreck of the Titanic

By Hutchinson, Gillian

Kursk: Film tie-in

By Robert Moore

Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle

By Mike Horn, Antony Shugaar, Jean-Philippe Chatrier

Voyages That Changed the World

By Peter Aughton

David Livingstone

By M. Buxton

The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue

By Stephen McGinty

Captain Scott

By Fiennes, Ranulph

Discovering America: Journeys in Search of the New World

By Timothy C. Jacobson

The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen (Egypt)

By Howard Carter

The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire

By Joe Jackson

Into the Wild

By Krakauer, Jon

Hunt for the Southern Continent (Penguin Great Journeys)

By Cook, James

The Oxford Book of Exploration

By Hanbury-Tenison, Robin

To the Ends of the Earth

By Fiennes Bt OBE, Sir Ranulph, Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bt OBE

The Book Nobody Read: In Pursuit of the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

By Gingerich, Owen

Access to Geography: Population

By Gillet, Jack, Gillett

Painted Mountains: Two Expeditions to Kashmir

By Stephen Venables

The Lost Photographs Of Captain Scott

By Dr. David M. Wilson