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To Build a Ship: The VOC Replica Ship Duyfken

By Garvey, Robert

Finding the Lost Cities

By Stefoff, Rebecca

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

By Moller, Violet

Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine

By Summers, Julie

Cultural Atlas of the Viking World

By Colleen Batey, Helen Clarke, R.I. Page, Neil S. Price, James Graham-Campbell

Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer

By Jeal, Tim

Over the Edge of the World

By Bergreen, Laurence

Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara

By Asher, Michael

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon

By Whitaker, Robert

Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterto and Richie Kohler

By Matsen, Brad

Great Explorers

By Owen, Roderic

Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara

By Asher, Michael

Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure

By Huw Lewis-Jones, Kari Herbert

Africa's Mountains of the Moon: Journeys to the Snowy Sources of the Nile (Elmtree Africana)

By Yeoman, Guy

Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable: A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit

By Baxter, Carol

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-13

By Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

By Moller, Violet

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

By Wheeler, Sara

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