Geographical Discovery & Exploration

If you had something really important to shout about, you could do worse than to climb to the point furthest from the centre of the Earth - some 2,...

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first...

In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it Crocker Land. ...

The story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great...

On 11 October 1492 the sun set on a clear Atlantic Ocean horizon and the night was cloudless with a late rising moon. As the lookouts high in the r...

Kerr's Voyage 2: The Americas provides a lively account of the major voyages to the Americas--North, South and Central--as well as to the West Indi...

Kerrs Voyages Series 3 focuses on the great circumnavigations of the globe, and includes the lesser known circumnavigations of Sir Thomas Candish, ...

New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) * THE MASTERFUL CHRONICLE* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA--AN ADVENTURE TA...

Recording Alexander von Humboldt''s historic expedition to the Americas and Cuba-hailed by many as the scientific discovery of America -these intr...