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Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

Columbus

By Fernández-Armesto, Dr. Felipe

The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

By Tzvetan Todorov

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf

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

By Billingham, Mark, Child, Lee

Colder: The Illustrated Story of Britain's Greatest Polar Explorer

By Ranulph Fiennes

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

By Brian M. Fagan

Thin White Line

By Andy Cave

The Sinbad Voyage

By Severin, Tim

Before Columbus CB

By Fernandez-Ar

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

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

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

By Tom Morgan-Jones, Kay Barnham

The Voyages of Captain Cook

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

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

By Wade Davis

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

By Anstruther, Ian

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

By Sandeep Jauhar

The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps

By Peter Whitfield

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale

Blowout

By Robert Orrell

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon

By Edward Dolnick

To the Ends of the Earth

By Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE

The Seashell on the Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler

James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world

By Peter FitzSimons

The Home of the Blizzard: Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14

By Sir Douglas Mawson

The Greatest Adventure. The Balloonists' own epic tale of their round-the-world voyage.

By Piccard, Jones;, Bertrand, Jones, Brian

Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World

By Tim Ecott

Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa

By F.J. McLynn

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu

By Anthony Sattin

Death in the Ice: The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition

By Karen Ryan