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A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things: The Life of Alexander von Humboldt(2017) MAREN MEINHARDTVezava: Trda49,90 € -
King of Lokoja(2022) MCCONNAHA, WENDELL R.This book tells the extraordinary story of William Balfour Baikie. Born in Orkney he became the King of Lokoja, a north-central city in Nigeria. It lies at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers and is the capital city of Kogi State.Vezava: Mehka26,24 € -
Fear(2017) FIENNES, RANULPH'Fear and Sir Ranulph Fiennes, you'd be forgiven for thinking, go together like a snowstorm and a heat wave. Yet the man once described by the Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest living explorer turns out to be a normal person after all.' RadioVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Lost Explorer(2000) ANKER, CONRAD,ROBERTS, DAVIDOn 8 June 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine were last seen climbing towards the summit of Everest. In 1999, Conrad Anker found the body of Mallory on Mount Everest. This title assesses the clues provided by the body, its position, and tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Nelson's Arctic Voyage(2019) GOODWIN, PETERA detailed account at the Royal Navy's expedition into the polar regions in 1773 – with the young Horatio Nelson on board.Vezava: Trda44,55 € -
Captain Shakespear(2017) DILLON, MR ALANTwo years before T E Lawrence's misson to the Hejaz, Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, a pioneering British political agent, ventured deep into the Nejdi desert, building crucial ties with Ibn Sa'ud before WW1. His journey and pivitol role in earlyVezava: Trda38,61 € -
Hello, is this planet Earth?: My View from the International Space Station (Official Tim Peake Book)(2016) TIM PEAKEVezava: Trda28,04 € -
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Grey Owl(2020) GREY OWLThe three most famous and influential works from the controversial nature writer and legendary early conservationist, an Englishman who lived the life of a North American native.Vezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Planting the World(2021) GOODMAN, JORDAN‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’ Jenny Uglow, New York Review of BooksVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Log from the Sea of Cortez(2001) STEINBECK, JOHNIn 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Stanley(2008) JEAL, TIMHenry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration andVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Oh Capitano!(2018) VECOLI, RUDOLPH J.,DURANTE, FRANCESCOThe story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii,Vezava: Trda110,35 € -
Curse of Oak Island(2020) SULLIVAN, RANDALL,SULLIVAN, RANDALLAn investigation into the “curse” of Oak Island, where rumors of buried riches have beguiled treasure hunters over the past two centuriesVezava: Mehka21,61 €
