Hachette, 2017. — 736 p. — ISBN: 978-0733634109, ISBN: 978-0733634093 (ebook). MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, farewelled by 15,000 cheering well-wishers. Led by Robert O'Hara Burke, a brave man totally lacking in the bush skills necessary for his...
Doubleday, 2009. — 328 p. A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a...
Mountaineers Books, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1594859472 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1594858529 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1594858536 (ebook). • Reveals the long view from an icon who, with age, has added wisdom to his list of accomplishments • Messner climbing firsts: the world’s fourteen peaks taller than 8000 meters; Everest solo; Everest without supplemental oxygen Reinhold...
Doubleday, 2014. — 480 p. In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017 — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0393249385, ISBN: 978-0393249392 (e-book). The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history―and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks. Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science,...
Oneworld Publications, 2014. — 464 p. An extraordinary character and one of history’s great explorers, Ernest Shackleton pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago, becoming the dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. His incredible adventures on four expeditions to the Antarctic have captivated generations. But Shackleton was a flawed character whose chaotic private...
М.: Паулсен, 2015. — 320 с. Александр Степанович Кучин – полярный исследователь, гидрограф, капитан, единственный русский, включённый в экспедицию Р. Амундсена на Южный полюс по рекомендации Ф. Нансена. Он погиб в экспедиции В. Русанова в возрасте 25 лет. Молодой капитан русановского «Геркулеса», Кучин владел норвежским языком, составил русско-норвежский словарь морских...
New Word City, Inc., 2017. Sir Richard Burton was best known as an intrepid explorer with a voracious appetite for adventure who penetrated the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina and was the first European to discover and identify the African Great Lake Tanganyika, the second largest - and deepest - body of fresh water in the world. But he was also a geographer, writer, soldier,...
London: Penguin Workshop, 2018. — 112 p. Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was...
Neil Wilson Publishing, 2013. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1906000585, ISBN: 978-1906000608 (ebook). 'Probably the greatest mountaineer of his day,' claimed Kenneth Mason in his definitive mountaineering history, Abode of Snow. Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), from an ancient and interesting Surrey aristocratic family with royal connections, not only found the first way to the...
White Lion Publishing, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1781318782 ; ISBN: 978-1-78131-879-9. In this unique and enthralling book, explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford curates 25 great expeditions through the lens of the kit these remarkable explorers took with them. In an environment where lack of preparation could mean certain death, the equipment carried, ridden and sailed into...
Pegasus Books, 2024. — 489 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63936-552-4 As a young British intelligence officer in Cairo, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revolt, fighting alongside rebel forces against the Ottomans. He made a legendary 300-mile journey through blistering heat; he wore Arab dress; and he strongly identified with the people in...
ForeEdge, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1512600971 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1512601206 (ebook). Emerald Labyrinth is a scientist and adventurer’s chronicle of years exploring the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012 — 441 p. — ASIN: B007HXFGIE A true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements. In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled...
Arcade, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1628726886, ISBN: 978-1628726893 (EPUB). In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, one woman's transformational journey rowing across the savage sea—twice. Just out of college, newly wed, and set up with her husband Curt in a small town in New York, Kathleen Saville quickly realized that an ordinary life working for a better used car and a...
М.: Паулсен, 2024. — 107 с. 13 илл.— ISBN 978-5-98797-383-7. …Первого февраля 1709 года корабль английских пиратов бросает якорь вблизи необитаемого острова Хуан-Фернандес, затерянного посреди Тихого океана. Экипаж замечает огонь на берегу. На следующий день часть команды, отправленная к берегу на шлюпке, находит «человека, одетого в козьи шкуры и кажущегося более диким, чем их...
Skyhorse, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1620877821 (paperback). Not since the fantastic story of the Kon-Tiki expedition has there appeared such as exciting saga of a primitive raft expedition across the Pacific for scientific investigation. From Raft to Raft tells the incredible, suspenseful drama of the dangerous voyage led by Eric de Bisschop from Tahiti to Chile and back to...
Pen & Sword Maritime, 2019. — 216 p. Few men have lived such an extraordinary life as Admiral Albert Hastings Markham. Besides dedicating five decades of his career to the Royal Navy, Markham was a voracious reader, prolific writer, keen naturalist, and daring explorer. He battled Chinese pirates during the Second Opium War and Taiping Rebellion; chased down Australian...
ABC Books, 2020. — 496 p. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge. Fabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New...
University Press of Florida, 2009. — 352 p. In the late 1880s, many lives in northern and western maritime Alaska rested in the capable hands of Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), through his service to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. Healy arrested lawbreakers, put down mutinies aboard merchant ships, fought the smuggling of illegal liquor and firearms, rescued shipwrecked sailors...
Chicago Review Press, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1613739556 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1613739563 (PDF), ISBN: 978-1613739587 (EPUB), ISBN: 978-1613739570 (kindle). Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on and off the...
Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1476753867, ISBN: 978-1476753881 (ebook). The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties’ most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War...
Neil Wilson Publishing, 2008. — 200 p. 2009 marked the 300th anniversary of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, the Fife mariner who became the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The story is told not only by the author but also through the words of those who knew Selkirk with three colourful contemporary accounts of Selkirk's island experiences on Juan Fernandez -...
München: Heilbronn, 2017. Antje Windgassens Romanbiografie erzählt fesselnd das Leben der Forscherin Alexandra David-Néel. Sie bereiste Birma, Indien und China – ihre besondere Leidenschaft aber galt Tibet: Sie wurde vom Dalai Lama empfangen, traf Gandhi und ließ kurz vor ihrem 100. Geburtstag – „für alle Fälle“ – noch einmal ihren Pass verlängern.
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 522 с. — (Интеллектуальная история / Микроистория). — ISBN 978-5-4448-2186-1. Главный герой исследования Натали Земон Дэвис – путешественник, дипломат и ученый Иоанн Лев Африканский, автор первого европейского географического трактата об Африке. Он родился в конце XV века в мусульманской Гранаде, вырос и получил образование в Марокко, а...
М.: Паулсен, 2024. — 545 с., 110 ил. — ISBN 978-5-98797-392-9. Кнуд Расмуссен (1839-1983) – датчанин с эскимосскими корнями, исследователь культуры эскимосов, собиратель гренландских мифов и саг, писатель, путешественник, организатор и участник семи экспедиций в Гренландию, неофициальный посол гренландцев в Дании. В 1921-1924 гг. Расмуссен проделал знаменитый «Санный путь»...
Robert Halе, 2016. — 284 p. This book tells the story of an adventurer, hunter and naturalist in late nineteenth-century Africa, who would inspire novelists such as Rider Haggard and Wilbur Smith. The book describes Selous' extraordinary adventures, from elephant-hunting, and diamond-prospecting, to an early expedition to found Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the European scramble...
The History Press, 2023. — 224 p. The first book to explore in full the extraordinary story of how a British journalist risked his career to expose American explorer Frederick Cook, who claimed to be the first person to reach the North Pole, as a fraud. On 1 September 1909, a telegram from American explorer Frederick Cook caused perhaps the biggest sensation in polar...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 608 p. Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” But these perceptions are not quite true, Tim Jeal shows in this...
Polity Press, 2018. — 2988 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1201-0 Claude Lévi-Strauss not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, Emmanuelle Loyer recounts Lévi-Strauss’s childhood in an assimilated Jewish household. As a professor, Lévi-Strauss left Paris in 1935 for...
Debolsillo, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN-10 8490322724; ISBN-13 978-8490322727. Viajeras intrépidas y aventureras nos aporta una lectura deliciosa y el reconocimiento histórico a muchas mujeres olvidadas que, con su imaginación y coraje, hicieron posible el milagro de la aventura en un mundo de hombres. Mujeres intrépidas y aventureras han existido desde los tiempos más remotos,...
Summersdale Publishers, 2020. — 303 p. — ISBN 978-1787833005 (paperback), ISBN 978-1787838789 (ebook). The badass adventurers in this collection are all fearless, intelligent, compassionate and curious about the world - and they all happen to be female. From arctic expeditions and endurance races to wingsuit flying and mountain climbing, they have set the bar high for what...
М.: Мысль, 2019. — 236 с. В книге рассказывается о Дж. К. Воссе, который вторым (после Дж. Слокама) совершил кругосветное плавание на маленьком судне — переоборудованной индейской пироге. В этой книге сочетаются воедино исторический роман и хроника подлинных событий, приключенческая повесть и автобиография незаурядного человека, но как бы ни трактовать ее — это отлично...
Владивосток: Дальиздат, 2016. — 79 с. — ISBN 978-5-906739-91-9. Книга содержит малоизвестные широкому читателю, а также выявленные в последние годы новые факты и сведения, касающиеся личности В.К. Арсеньева – известного исследователя российского Дальнего Востока, географа и этнографа, военного востоковеда и писателя. На основе документальных материалов, собранных лично автором,...
М.: Паулсен, 2023. — 64 с.: ил. — (Библиотека полярных исследований). — ISBN 978-5-98797-360-8. Северный Ледовитый океан таит множество тайн и загадок. Одна из них - мистическое исчезновение экспедиции опытного полярного путешественника Владимира Александровича Русанова. Свое сердце Русанов отдал Северу еще в студенческие годы. А в 1909г. он стал участником 1-ой Новоземельской...
М.: АСТ, 2019. — 359 с. Писателя Олега Куваева (1934–1975) называли "советским Джеком Лондоном" и создателем "Моби Дика советского времени". Путешественник, полярник, геолог, автор "Территории" — легендарного романа о поисках золота на северо-востоке СССР. Куваев работал на Чукотке и в Магадане, в одиночку сплавлялся по северным рекам, странствовал по Кавказу и Памиру....
Москва : Паулсен, 2022. — 784 с. — ISBN 978-5-98797-325-7. Роберт Пири – известный полярный первопроходец, которого в начале XX в. американский конгресс и географические общества многих стран назвали покори- телем Северного полюса. Дмитрий Шпаро, приводя малоизвестные американские документы, разобла- чает Пири и утверждает, что его главные победы – рекорд продвижения на север в...
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