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Pacific Paradises is a story of cultures in collision. Trevor Lummis recreates the lives of Tahitian and Hawaiian islanders before and after the fateful arrival of the first …
Presents the biography of Polar explorer, Roald Amundsen. This work uncovers the life of the determined, pugnacious pioneer, using accounts from his diaries and own books to tell …
When Captain Cook set out to seek a western entrance to the fabled North West Passage, his instructions allowed him no more than the briefest contact with the coast of north-west …
In 1860 the Australian interior was unmapped and unknown to European settlers. When the Victorian Exploring Expedition tasked Robert O’Hara Burke, William John Wills and a party of …
The search for the North West Passage, the fabled northern route to the Orient, took many lives, not least the entire crews of Franklin's Erebus and Terror, and some of the men …
Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most often …