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Monsters: History's most evil men and women

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon

To the Source of the Yangtze

By Bell, Dick

The Blue Nile

By Moorehead, Alan

A World Lit Only by Fire

By Manchester, WILLIAM

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

By Philbrick, Nathaniel

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

By Bredin, Miles

A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire

By Murray, Nicholas

Thesiger

By Asher, Michael

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

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

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

By Andrew C. A. Jampoler

Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia

By Brooke, Alan, Brandon, David

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

By Hakluyt, Richard

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

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

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

By Byrd, Richard E.

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

By Moore, Peter

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

By Cookman, Scott

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

By Grylls, Bear

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

By Stephen Taylor

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

By Tim Jeal

Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island

By Thor Heyerdahl

A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America

By Horn, James

1421. The Year China Discovered the World.

By Gavin Menzies

The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 (Lancaster Pamphlets)

By Arnold, David John

ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy

By Stothard

The Search for El Dorado

By Hemming, John

Spain's Road to Empire: The Making of a World Power, 1492-1763

By Kamen, Henry

The Shape of the World, The: Mapping and Discovery of the Earth

By Berthon, Simon, Robinson, Andrew

Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign

By Talty, Stephan

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

By Horwitz, Tony

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.

By Spence, Lewis.