Geographical Discovery & Exploration

John Hanning Speke writes about the history of his first two explorations in Africa that led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The manner...

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the origin and pro...

From a Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, a riveting account of the great expeditions of Antarctica's Heroic Age that restores their status as grand ...

'This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unsc...

The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pan...

Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was ...

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended wi...

New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions)Thrilling. A captivating history of two men who dramatically changed their contemporaries view of the past....

David Livingstone rose from being a factory boy to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. This volume of essays, rich in new s...