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For more than a millennium, Polynesians occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, an enormous triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter ...
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year ...
The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.
By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica ...
Throughout history, a handful of unusually driven individuals have been inspired to explore the limits of the known world, inspiring us and changing our perceptions ...
'Stunning...divine' Stephen Fry
'A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous' John Lloyd, creator of QI
'Perfect for the armchair adventurer ...
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses ...
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human ...
Five hundred years after the historic French seaport of Le Havre was established, TASCHEN presents a facsimile reproduction of Les premieres oeuvres de Jacques Devaulx ...
Cook led a scientific expedition to
observe the transit of Venus in Tahiti, circumnavigated New Zealand and
established that it was two separate islands, and ...
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the ...
For the past 225 years, the story of the Bounty mutiny has captured the public's imagination. The reasons for the mutiny have been intensely ...
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in ...
What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How ...
The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty to schemes for measuring the dimensions of the solar system ...
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook ...