Geographical Discovery & Exploration

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the worlds largest body of water, and in matters e...

Living in a reed hut on Taveuni--the garden isle of Fiji--the author studied the native language and carefully observed their traditions until h...

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic icewith th...

For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained...