Discoveries in geography / Exploration


62 books
1434

the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance

Menzies, Gavin.

Discoveries in geography--Chinese Renaissance Civilization Discoveries in geography / Exploration Europe--Chinese influences

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A history of exploration

from the earliest times to the present day

by Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes

Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the World, 1791-1795

[Jan. 1793 - Apr. 1794]

The voyage of George Vancouver

George Vancouver; ed. by W. Kaye Lamb

Travel--Oceans--Pacific Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Auf dem Gipfel des Ruwenzori

1906. Entdeckung, Erforschung, Erstbesteigung

Henry Morton Stanley; Franz Stuhlmann; Ludwig Amadeus von Savoyen; hg.v. Heinrich Pleticha; m.44 Fot.v. Vittorio Sella

Mountaineering expeditions--Africa Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Africa, East Rwenzori Mountains

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Aventuriers du monde

sous la dir. scientif. de Pierre Fournié & la dir. ed. de Sophie de Sivry

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers

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Bound together

how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization

Nayan Chanda

Globalization--Historical aspects Globalization--Cultural aspects Social evolution--History Discoveries in geography / Exploration Social change--Through cultural exchange (Acculturation) Civilization--History Populations--Movement

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Buccaneer explorer

William Dampier; ed. & w. an introd. by Gerald Norris

Travel--Oceans Travel--Historical accounts Travel--World Discoveries in geography / Exploration Natural history--Pre-Linnean works

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Cape Horn

the story of the Cape Horn region from the days of the first discoverers through the glorious age of sail

Felix Riesenberg

Travel--Oceans Discoveries in geography / Exploration Cape Horn

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Captain Scott /

Ranulph Fiennes

Biography--Explorers Explorers Antarctica--British Discoveries in geography / Exploration Scott, Robert Falcon (1868-1912)

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Cherry

a life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Sara Wheeler

Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Cherry-Garrard, Apsley (Brit.Antarctica explorer, 1886-1959) Antarctica--Discovery and exploration Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Columbus

the four voyages, 1492-1504

Laurence Bergreen

North America--Discovery and exploration--To 1600 Caribbean--History--1492-1608 Explorers Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Biography--Explorers Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Contemporaries of Marco Polo

consisting of the travel records to the Eastern parts of the World

ed. by Manuel Komroff

Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Central Asia Travel--China Travel--Near & Middle East Middle Ages--Literature Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Das Geheimnis der Titanic

3800 Meter unter Wasser

von Robert D. Ballard und Rick Archbold; Ill.v. Ken Marschall

Shipwrecks Titanic (RMS) Discoveries in geography / Exploration Catastrophes (Technology)

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Das Geheimnis des Kartenmachers

Roman

Rainer M. Schröder

German fiction--Juvenile--Historical German fiction--Juvenile--Adventure Germany--History--1438-1493 Discoveries in geography / Exploration Map making Awards--Moerser Jugendbuchpreis

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East African Explorers

sel. & introd. by Charles Richards & James Place

Travel--Africa, East Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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El país de la canela

William Ospina

South America--History Discoveries in geography / Exploration Amazon river

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Elles ont conquis le monde

les grandes aventurières, 1850-1950

prés.p. Alexandra Lapierre

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Biography--Collective--19th century Biography--Collective--20th century Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers Biography--Women Women--Travel

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Entdeckungsreisen in Australien

Ludwig Leichhardt: ein deutsches Forscherschicksal

Heinz Haufe

Biography--Explorers Discoveries in geography / Exploration Australia Leichhardt, Ludwig (German explorer, 1813-1848) Letters

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Explorers

Christopher Columbus, Lewis and Clarke, Zebulon M. Pike, Charles Wilkes, Clarence King, John Wesley Powell

ed. by George Iles

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Collected accounts Explorers

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Explorers of the Mississippi

Timothy Severin

Discoveries in geography / Exploration North America--History Explorers

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Foundations in the dust

a story of Mesopotamian exploration

Seton Lloyd

Archaeology--Mesopotamia Civilization--Mesopotamia Historiography Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Further selections from the tragic history of the sea, 1559-1565

narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garça (1559), São Paulo (1561) and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo António

transl. & ed. from the orig. Portug. by C. R. Boxer

Shipwrecks Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Travel--Oceans--Indian Ocean

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Ils y étaient avant Christophe Colomb

Ivan van Sertima

Africa--History--Natives Natives of North America--History Civilization--Ancient Civilization--Africa Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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In quest of the North West passage

Leslie H. Neatby

Travel--Oceans Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration

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Indian explorers of the 19th century

account of explorations in the Himalayas, Tibet, Mongolia and Central Asia

Indra Singh Rawat

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Explorers Travel--Asia Rawat, Nain Singh (Indian explorer, 1830-1882) Rawat, Krishna Singh (Indian Explorer, 1850-1921)

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Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile

by John Hanning Speke

Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Africa, East Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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La perte de l'Eldorado

une histoire

V. S. Naipaul; trad. de l'anglais p. Philippe Delamare

El Dorado Discoveries in geography / Exploration Trinidad--History Raleigh, Walter (1554-1618)

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Les grands explorateurs

Robin Hanbury-Tension

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Explorers

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Mandeville's travels

ed. w. modernized spelling & an introd. by M. C. Seymour

Travel--Near & Middle East Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Missionary excursion into the Blue Mountains

being an account of King Moshoeshoe's Expedition from Thaba-Bosiu to the sources of the Malibamatso River in the year 1840

by Thomas Arbousset; ed. & transl. by David Ambrose & Albert Brutsch

Lesotho--History Basotho / Basuto / Sotho (African people) Travel--Africa, South Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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One river

explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest

Wade Davis

Amazon river Discoveries in geography / Exploration Medicinal plants--Collection and preservation Ethnobotany--Native Americans Schultes, Richard Evans (Ethnobotanist, 1915-2001) Natives of South America Plowman, Tim (Ethnobotanist, 1944-1989) Hallucinogenic plants--Coca

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Passages from Arabia Deserta

Charles M. Doughty; sel. by Edward Garnett

Travel--Saudi-Arabia Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Peter Freuchen's book of the seven seas

by Peter Freuchen, with David Loth

Explorers Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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South

the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition

by Sir Ernest Shackleton

Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Antarctica Discoveries in geography / Exploration Memoirs Biography--Travellers Biography--Explorers Shackleton, Ernest Henry (1874-1922) Antarctica--Discovery and exploration

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South America called them

explorations of great naturalists: Charles-Marie de la Condamine, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Richard Spruce

Victor W. von Hagen

Biography--Biologists and Naturalists Biography--Collective Biography--Explorers Biography--Travellers de la Condamine, Charles-Marie (1701-1774) von Humboldt, Alexander (1769-1859) Darwin, Charles (Engl. naturalist, 1809-1882) Spruce, Richard (1817-1893) Travel--South America Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The archaeology of Mesopotamia

from the Old Stone Age to the Persian conquest

Seton Lloyd

Archaeology--Mesopotamia Civilization--Mesopotamia Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The blinded eye

500 years of Christopher Columbus

by Ziauddin Sardar, Ashis Nandy, Merryl Wyn Davies & Claude Alvares

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Civilization--Modern--Criticism Colonization--History and criticism

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The European reconnaissance

selected documents

ed. by J. H. Parry

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Oceans Travel--Historical accounts History--Sources Naval operations--History

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The exploration of the Pacific

by J. C. Beaglehole

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Oceans--Pacific Travel--World

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The explorers

an anthology of discovery

comp. & ed. by G. R. Crone

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Collected accounts Explorers

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The first crossing of Greenland

by Fridtjof Nansen; transl. from the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp

Travel--Arctic Travel--Greenland Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The four voyages

being his own logbook, letters and dispatches w connecting narrative drawn from the life of the admiral by his son Hernando and other contemporary historians

Christopher Columbus

Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Explorers Discoveries in geography / Exploration History--Sources Letters

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The Niger journal

of Richard & John Lander; ed. & abr. w. an introd. by Robin Hallett

Travel--Nigeria Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration Niger River

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The Norse Atlantic saga

being the Norse voyages of discovery and settlement to Iceland, Greenland, America

Gwyn Jones

Scandinavia--History Vikings Iceland--History Greenland--History Canada--History--Vinland North America--Antiquities North America--Discovery and exploration--To 1600 Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The romance of navigation

by W. B. Whall

Travel--Oceans Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The southern gates of Arabia

a journey in the Hadhramaut

Freya Stark

Travel--Historical accounts Travel--Near & Middle East Travel--Yemen Discoveries in geography / Exploration Deserts

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The traveller's eye

Dorothy Carrington

Travel--Collected accounts Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The travels of Mungo Park

Travel--Africa, West Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The Vinland sagas - the Norse discovery of America

Grænlendinga saga and Eirik's saga

transl. w. an introd. by Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson

Folk tales--Iceland Tales and lore of historical and quasi-historical persons and events Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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The voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648

Bering's precursor

by Raymond H. Fisher

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Russia--Siberia Dezhnev, Semyon (1605-1673)

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The voyage of the Discovery

in two volumes

by Captain Robert F. Scott

Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Travel--Antarctica Travel--Historical accounts Antarctica--Discovery and exploration Discoveries in geography / Exploration Scott, Robert Falcon (1868-1912)

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The voyage of the Discovery

in two volumes

by Captain Robert F. Scott

Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Travel--Antarctica Travel--Historical accounts Antarctica--Discovery and exploration Discoveries in geography / Exploration Scott, Robert Falcon (1868-1912)

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The voyages of Columbus

by Ken Hills; ill. by Paul Wright and others

Discoveries in geography / Exploration Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Age group--Youth (10-18)

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The world encompassed

Drake'a great voyage 1577-1580

by Derek Wilson

Travel--World Travel--Oceans Discoveries in geography / Exploration Drake, Francis (1540-1596)

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Titanic, Königin der Meere

das Schiff und seine Geschichte

Ill.v. Ken Marschall; Text v. Donald Lynch

Shipwrecks Titanic (RMS) Ocean and civilization Discoveries in geography / Exploration Seafaring life Travel--Oceans--Atlantic Catastrophes (Technology)

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Travelling heroes

Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer

Robin Lane Fox

Greece--History--To 323 BC (Classic) Discoveries in geography / Exploration Mythology--Greek Civilization--Greece

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Um Gott und Gold

Columbus entdeckt eine neue Welt

S. Fischer-Fabian

Biography--Explorers Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Ventures and voyages

by E. Keble Chatterton

Seafaring life Discoveries in geography / Exploration Travel--Oceans

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Voyages of the Elizabethan seamen

select narratives from the "Principal navigations" of Hakluyt

ed. by Edward John Payne; w. add. notes, maps, etc., by C. Raymond Beazley

Travel--Oceans Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration Piracy--History

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Voyages to paradise

exploring in the wake of Captain Cook

by William R. Gray; phot. by Gordon W. Gahan

Travel--Oceans Travel--World Travel--Historical accounts Discoveries in geography / Exploration Cook, James (1728-1779)

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Water music /

T. Coraghessan Boyle

American poetry--20th century Discoveries in geography--Fiction Explorers American poetry Explorers Park, Mungo Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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Welten der Entdecker

ein Bildband.

Albert W. Bettex

Discoveries in geography / Exploration

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