| MUNGO PARK Book Number: 38951 |
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In 1975, Mungo Park, a 24-year-old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. This is his journal of the ex...
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| INTRO. BY DR BEAU RIFFENBURGH Book Number: 56596 |
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Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of the third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second ...
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| WASHINGTON IRVING Book Number: 57493 |
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People had thought it was only the great distance that made it impossible to reach Asia sailing west from Spain. No one had predicted that a vast continent stood in the way. And indeed, for Colum...
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| CAPTAIN SCOTT Book Number: 65527 |
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The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poi...
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| MARCO POLO Book Number: 65913 |
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Translated by Ronald Latham, this is one of the beautifully designed Penguin Great Journeys series. He heard tales of rubies as thick as a man's arm. He knew of the King, naked but for a jewelled...
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| EDWARD COOKE Book Number: 66753 |
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Rare first editions published 1969 by Nico Israel of Amsterdam, these are facsimiles of the original Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World in the Years 1708-1771, facsimile reprints of the or...
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| ALEXIA BRUE Book Number: 67689 |
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Most people travel to Greece for the Classical ruins, Turkey for the Hagia Sofia, Russia for St. Basil's, Finland for the lakes and Japan for the bustle of Tokyo or Mount Fuji - but not Alexia Brue...
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| JOHN POTTER Book Number: 67724 |
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Unusual subject choices and weather conditions make this collection of Yorkshire photographs rather special. One of the most atmospheric shots captures the amphitheatre known as the "Hole of Horcu...
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| ALEX PERRY Book Number: 67919 |
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Ever since the heady days of the collapse of Communism, international companies and governments the world over have embraced the idea of the Global Village, the shrinking, booming world from which ...
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| JASPER BECKER Book Number: 67952 |
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Chairman Mao intended to destroy Old Beijing and create a new capital but his rule was too chaotic for the aim to be realised before his death in 1976. Armies had been and gone - British, French,...
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