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Author: The Explorers Club
Release Date: November 14, 2023
Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the historic and esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers.In 1937, after the world was mapped, the ...
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Author: Darrell Hartman | Narrator: Mack Sanderson
Release Date: June 06, 2023
"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey GodA sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that fol...
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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock | Narrator: Caroline Dodds Pennock
Release Date: January 24, 2023
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492We have long been taugh...
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Author: Charlotte Whittle and Irene Vallejo | Narrator: Sophie Roberts
Release Date: October 18, 2022
A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity’s obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages • “Accessible and entertaining.” —The Wal...
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Author: Laurence Bergreen | Narrator: Tim Jerome
Release Date: September 13, 2022
He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged...
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Author: Candice Millard
Release Date: June 14, 2022
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the RepublicA BEST BOOK OF...
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ISBN: 9780525524076
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Author: Fernando Cervantes | Narrator: Luis Soto
Release Date: September 14, 2021
A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world   “The de...
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Author: H. W. Brands | Narrator: Grover Gardner
Release Date: July 20, 2021
By the Author of the Bestselling Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE FIRST AMERICANTHEY WENT WEST TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY CHANGED THE WORLD. THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GOLD RUSH.When gold was first disc...
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Author: Julian Sancton
Release Date: June 08, 2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped insid...
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ISBN: 9780593340158
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Author: Mark Synnott | Narrator: Steve Campbell
Release Date: April 13, 2021
*One of the 57 Most Anticipated Books Of 2021—Elle Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . .   A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring...
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Author: Brian Castner | Narrator: Brian Castner
Release Date: April 13, 2021
A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the...
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Author: Charles King | Narrator: January LaVoy
Release Date: August 06, 2019
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WinnerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFrom an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping ch...
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