(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691233246)
A scientific adventure story that dramatizes how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 yearsIn December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a...Lasīt vairāk
Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that Americas pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Oct-2025, Calendar, Izdevniecība: Rizzoli Universe, ISBN-13: 9780789348678)
Sail through twelve months with Jack and Rose aboard the iconic vessel with the official Titanic 2026 Wall Calendar based on the Academy Awardwinning cult classic. Let your heart go on as the official Titanic 2026 Wall Calen...Lasīt vairāk
Flying is one thing . . . but landing in one piece is another thing altogether.Every Rocketman is destined to crash. But only some are willing to fly again.Ever since he was a kid, Dan Schlund was showman...Lasīt vairāk
This features Antarctic exploration after the heroic years of Scott, Shackleton and Mawsom but before the technological age. It interweaves a personal story of discovery in Antarctica in the 60s with the lives and deaths of those who were tragically...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819810963)
Chinese Explored Asia Long Before the Europeans: An Ancient World Map Tells All is the fruit of the authors research into the history of exploration prior to the European Age of Discovery. This book analyses thoroughly the Asian regions of an impor...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the role of geographys five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombuss second voyage....Lasīt vairāk
Jack Baronett (18291906) was an important figure in the history of Yellowstone National Park. In his early life he traveled the world, prospecting and mining in Australia, Africa, China, and Alaska. He traveled to the Yellowstone region in 1864eigh...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: James Currey, ISBN-13: 9781847014061)
A detailed overview of East African diplomacy at the end of pre-colonial era, which provides a corrective to the commonly held view that African diplomats were inexperienced, naļve and parochial....Lasīt vairāk
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of...Lasīt vairāk
A radical retelling (Financial Times) of the history of sciencea tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from across the globe, far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.When we think about the origins...Lasīt vairāk
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. In Four Points of the Compass, Jerry Brotton takes the reader on a journe...Lasīt vairāk
As sensitive and touching as it is urgent . . . ( Wild Life is) a poignant exploration of the natural world. O, The Oprah MagazineWild Life is the bushwacking, honest, and inspiring memoir I wish I...Lasīt vairāk
Graphic memoir that brings together adventure, community, conservation, and personal growth from an award-winning artist and storyteller...Lasīt vairāk
Uses first-hand accounts to better understand the experience of those who traveled the popular overland trek from Turkey to India in the 1960s and 70s.Safarnamehan Urdu word meaning an account of a journeyis the story of Tre...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816555437)
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contex...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781642832075)
Argues that todays emerging geopolitical rivalries have roots in earlier waves of exploration and that the future prospect of a developed Arctic, with navigable passages to equal the Suez and Panama Canals, is drowning out the real impacts of warmin...Lasīt vairāk
Each year since 1925, students from around the country engage in debates informed by the National Forensic Leagues (NFL) yearly national debate topic. Covering topics that range from U.S. foreign relations and economic policy abroad to key domestic...Lasīt vairāk
Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europes global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from afar be trusted when the...Lasīt vairāk
How European settlers learned of the vast North American continent was often through the accounts of men who individually or in groups trekked into the wilderness. Their chief motivation was ascertaining or obtaining natural resources for commerce, s...Lasīt vairāk
Few know that the presidents desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the worlds most extraordinary sagas; in Resolute, noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light. After Sir John Franklin and his ships di...Lasīt vairāk
