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"William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this is Day's chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens -- the man who's haunted his whole life -- back home. But when the rescue mission...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean and discovered America. Right? Wrong! Columbus never actually set foot in what is now the United States. His voyages took him to islands in the Caribbean and along the coast of South America. The truth is, when Columbus first arrived, Indigenous peoples, including the Taino, had been living there for thousands of years, raising their families, running their societies, and trading with their neighbors....
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Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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The Clades, a family of legendary explorers which includes a father, a son, a three-legged dog, and an unruly blob, undertake a mission to navigate a strange land inhabited by fantastical creatures.
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Duke Classics
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English
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A travelogue detailing Charles Dickens's tour of North America. In January of 1842, Charles Dickens and his wife, Kate, traveled from Liverpool to Boston. At the time, Dickens had already attained a tremendous level of literary success and fame, and the author hoped his travels would help him gain insight into the New World that had captivated the English imagination. Over the ensuing 6 months, Dickens explored the East Coast and Great Lakes regions...
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Carlos Medrano
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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Memorias de un Teniente Coronel, no es una obra de ficción, es la vida de un hombre originario de Coahuila quien en 1910 a temprana edad se unió a la revolución de México. Muchas historias hemos leído de la época de la revolución, pero pocas historias de sus soldados. En 1961 Don Manuel Flores Solís se sentó frente a una maquina de escribir para plasmar su vida revolucionaria.
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English
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"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 of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures-the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the...
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Editions Parujekad
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Français
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Au cœur d'une planète cerné par les élus, les chaos , et les violences inter-humaines sont les caractéristiques majeures d'une nation déséquilibrée cependant, l'écriture associée à une lecture instructive doivent être une solution satisfaisante pour la progéniture actuelle. En partant de ces traces ; des jeunes poètes élèvent des cris foudroyant
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"A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international...
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KDP Editorial Design
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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Esta novela es la continuación de aventuras de Ezequiel Mora, que se desarrollan en la marina. Ezequiel Mora la aventura en el mar, es la sección tercera, primera parte de las situaciones que le suceden a este personaje, que continúan en estas nuevas andanzas, situaciones casuísticas y aventureras de la vida, y continuando con la saga de EZEQUIEL MORA Y SUS ANDANZAS. Es una novela de
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Wilmer Antonio Velásquez Peraza
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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Esta novela, es la continuación de Ezequiel Mora y sus nuevas andanzas, después que el deja el pueblo de Niquero. Como no se sabe el por qué, lo han mandado a buscar tan repentinamente y con tanta urgencia, en esta novela se reflejan los motivos. Un reencuentro inesperado, fluye y le mejora la vida. El encuentro con un personaje del pasado, se le convierte en una andanza que no imagina. Las consecuencias de lo que le tocaría
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2024.
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English
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"A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it's just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew - and they're all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later,...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world. Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships have been wrecked on...
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier.
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the...
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Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"In The Renaissance Explorers with History Projects for Kids, readers ages 10 to 15 find out more about what it meant to be an explorer and follow the biographies of five famous Renaissance explorers, including Niccolò de Conti, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pêro da Covilhã, and Ferdinand Magellan, from their childhoods until their exhilarating days of scouting new-to-them lands. In addition to diving deep into the biographies of five Renaissance...
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traversed frozen hells to be the first to reach the North or South Pole. It is a collection that will both inspire and inform as well as answer questions about the limits of human endurance"--
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Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In the past, traveling was difficult. Some places weren't even on maps! But many trailblazers have found ways to explore our world. Fun illustrations pair with bright photos to help readers learn all about our greatest adventures"--
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lifestyle. A scion of American industry turned explorer of Africa and environmental advocate, Beard embodied the extremes of his time: grand adventurer and sexually voracious partier, friend of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Jackie Onassis to Andy Warhol to Karen Blixen. And Beard had a passion--probably...
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Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Most of our world is covered by water and we have only explored some of it. Follow a few trailblazers as they adventure on and under the sea. Fun illustrations pair with bright photos to help readers learn all about our greatest adventures"--
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