A retelling of Christopher Columbus' search for the New World.

Master explorer Dirk Pitt and his wisecracking sidekick Al Giordino go on the adventure of a lifetime while seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the 'Ship of Death.' Based on the best-selling series by Clive Cussler.

Before he led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth, Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese noble who dreamed of adventure. After years of sailing, he was chosen to lead a crew to circle the globe-a trip that no other ship had ever completed. Though Magellan died in combat in the Philippines before he could finish the voyage his ship made it around the world, and he is still known as one of the greatest explorers. But many of the places...

"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave...

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.

"To the East India Company, he's the ideal explorer: unwed, uncomplaining, strong as an ox and profitable. There's nothing Seth Mayhew can't find--until his sister disappears en route to India. The expedition is the first he fears he may fail, until he discovers a valuable, and irresistible, ally sailing on the same ship to Bombay. But Wilhelmina Adams is on an expedition of her own--for a husband. With six sisters, no dowry and no marriage prospects...

"Venture into steamy jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space  Explorers looks at the amazing stories of more than 50 adventurers.  Meeet Jeanne Baret, who traveled around the world disguised as a man; Esteban Dorantes, a shipwrecked slave who made it the whole way across the American South; and Barbara Hillary, who trekked to the North Pole at the age of 75!  Get ready to take a leap in to...

In this book without words, a boy opens a door and invites the reader to explore the magical world on the other side.

The Pioneer Histories are, intended to provide a broad survey of the great migrations of European people for purposes of trade, conquest and settlement into the non-European continents. They aim to describe a racial expansion which has created the complex world of today, so nationalistic in its instincts, so internationalized in its relationships. International affairs now claim the attention of every intelligent citizen, and problems of worldwide...

A memoir of heartbreak, thousand-mile races, the endless Alaskan wilderness and many, many dogs from one of only a handful of women to have completed both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept an offer to live at a friend's cabin outside of Denali National Park in Alaska for a few months. In exchange for housing, she would take care of her friend's...