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On the Backs of Others
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
Price:
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496230973
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstream histories on this era of travel.
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum Africa Expedition of 1896
Price:
CA$150.00
ISBN: 9780817321994
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
The rediscovery of a curator's lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum's famed collections
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896
Price:
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780817361488
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
The rediscovery of a curator's lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum's famed collections
Westviking
The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771624077
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Step into the world of sagas, longships and enigmatic Norse explorers with Farley Mowat’s captivating historical account, Westviking. The Viking sagas speak of a land called Vinland, a place of abundant...
Georg Forster
German Cosmopolitan
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780271093277
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
Price:
CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774868877
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
The Awe of the Arctic
A Visual History
Price:
CA$102.00
ISBN: 9783775748070
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
The New York Public Library unveils 500 years of documentation of one of the earth’s most inhospitable regionsFor centuries, what lies above the Arctic Circle has been a source of intrigue for those...
The Balmis Expedition
The Spanish Empire's War against Smallpox
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CA$35.95
ISBN: 9780875658575
Pub Date: January 2024
While the Spanish are often remembered for bringing smallpox and other diseases to the New World, little attention is paid to their efforts to eradicate one of the greatest killers in human history....
Out There
The Batshit Antics of the World's Great Explorers
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CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781990823336
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Sutherland House
The years 1800-1940 were the heyday of the independent explorer—free-spirited, mostly European adventurers who took incredible risks in pursuit of discovery and fame. Some lit out for the mysterious...
Searching for Franklin
New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
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CA$38.95
ISBN: 9781771623681
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two...
Lines Drawn across the Globe
Reading Richard Hakluyt's “Principal Navigations”
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CA$65.00
ISBN: 9780228016762
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Around 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to English voyages beyond Europe’s boundaries. In a dazzling account of an editorial project seminal to England’s encounter with the world and the nation’s idea of itself, Fuller unlocks Hakluyt’s work for modern readers.
Pacific Voyages
The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean
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CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781771623476
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
“Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller’s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms...
Tlacaelel Remembered
Mastermind of the Aztec Empire
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806192222
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
As Schroeder traces Tlacaelel through the annals, she also examines how his story was transmitted and transformed in later histories. The resulting work is the most complete and comprehensive account ever given of this significant figure in Mesoamerican history.
Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun
The Kon-Tiki Museum Archive
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CA$65.00
ISBN: 9781954957992
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
An archival delve into the remarkable life, expeditions and voyages of Thor Heyerdahl, author of the bestselling adventure classic The Kon-Tiki ExpeditionNorwegian archaeologist, anthropologist, migration...
Exploring Desert Stone
John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado
Price:
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781646423743
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Utah State University Press
The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained...
Death in the Snow
Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru
Price:
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780228014409
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Pedro de Alvarado is best known as Cortés’s right-hand man in the conquest of Mexico and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala. Less known is his intent to intrude in the conquest of Peru and lay claim to the riches of the Inca Empire. Death in the Snow conveys the delusions of one headstrong conquistador and mourns the loss of countless Indigenous lives, casualties of Alvarado’s lust for fame and fortune.
On the Backs of Others
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496230973
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum Africa Expedition of 1896
CA$150.00
ISBN: 9780817321994
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780817361488
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
Westviking
The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771624077
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Georg Forster
German Cosmopolitan
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780271093277
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
CA$99.00
ISBN: 9780774868877
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: UBC Press
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
The Awe of the Arctic
A Visual History
CA$102.00
ISBN: 9783775748070
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
The Balmis Expedition
The Spanish Empire's War against Smallpox
CA$35.95
ISBN: 9780875658575
Pub Date: January 2024
Out There
The Batshit Antics of the World's Great Explorers
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781990823336
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Sutherland House
Searching for Franklin
New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
CA$38.95
ISBN: 9781771623681
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Lines Drawn across the Globe
Reading Richard Hakluyt's “Principal Navigations”
CA$65.00
ISBN: 9780228016762
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Pacific Voyages
The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781771623476
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
Tlacaelel Remembered
Mastermind of the Aztec Empire
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806192222
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun
The Kon-Tiki Museum Archive
CA$65.00
ISBN: 9781954957992
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Exploring Desert Stone
John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781646423743
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Utah State University Press
Death in the Snow
Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780228014409
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press