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“annabel merullo”

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  • The Explorer's Eye

    First-hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration

    Edited by Fergus Fleming, Annabel Merullo ...
    The golden moments of exploration and adventure - glorious, triumphant, perilous and dramatic.In the 18th century, exploration entered a new dimension - explorers were motivated by scientific inquiry rather than greed. To this end they were expected to make a full record of everything they encountered; and for the first time in history, that record was to include pictures as well as words. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is the epic tale of the disastrous "Winter expedition" of the Author and his two companions- Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson - all members of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole, who attempted a scientific expedition in the midst of the Antarctic Winter - in the coldest temperatures found on Planet Earth.At the behest ... Read more

    $2.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Arctic Grail

    The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909

    by Pierre Berton ...
    Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the pious and ambitious Edward Parry, the flawed hero John Franklin, ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic

    I Survived the Titanic

    by Lawrence Beesley ...
    A grieving world has already recognised Lawrence Beesley as the chief recorder of the Titanic wreck. The sports master at an English public school, who was going West for a tennis tournament, he had no special qualifications for performing the task that fell to him alone out of nearly a thousand survivors but he brought to bare a splendid self-possession upon his observation of the whole sad story ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Antarctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers

    by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen ...
    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole.In this carefully selected Anthology we present the personal accounts of the greatest early explorers of Antarctica: Captain Robert Falcon ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Arctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Arctic Explorers

    by Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson ...
    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The stories of the first explorers of the Arctic and the North Pole have always been somewhat overshadowed by the famous and tragic race for the South Pole a decade later. In truth the story is no less riveting to the reader, in terms of bravery, resilience and determination.What is more, in an extra dimension to the story there is the enduring controversy over who was in fact the first to make it ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Dead Reckoning

    The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage

    by Ken McGoogan ...
    With this book-his most ambitious yet-Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of Victorian England and focused almost exclusively on Royal Navy officers. By integrating non-British and fur-trade explorers and, above all, Canadas indigenous peoples, this work brings the story of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Frozen in Time

    The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

    by Owen Beattie, John Geiger ...
    **AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “CHILLING … WILL KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT TURNING PAGES.”—The Chicago TribuneThis “remarkable piece of forensic deduction” (MARGARET ATWOOD) “captures the excitement and peril of the explorers’ harrowing journey” aboard the HMS Erebus, and offers “a compelling explanation of what might have transpired over their final weeks and days (including, in a final act of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Barrow's Boys

    A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy

    by Fergus Fleming ...
    From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars.In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Captain James Cook

    by Richard Hough ...
    In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Explorers

    A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

    by Martin Dugard ...
    The story of Sir Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke--their friendship, bitter rivalry, and the two thousand year search for the source of the Nile--is almost too good to be true.Imagine a story in which two daring adventurers set off to solve the greatest and oldest of geographical mysteries: the source of the Nile. Their journey begins with great fanfare. The young friends travel deep ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • Scott's Last Expedition: Diaries, 26 November 1910 - 29 March 1912 (Illustrated)

    Diaries, 26 November 1910-29 March 1912

    by Captain Scott ...
    Reviews:'A worthy memorial of one of the great achievements of our time' WINSTON CHURCHILL'A battle cry to the youth and manhood of England' DAILY MIRRORScott of the Antarctic's amazing diary of the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition in which he perished along with Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans after reaching the South Pole behind Roald Amundsen. Scott's diary has been ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD