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The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics)
James R. Cook
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
A new one-volume abridged edition of Cook's famous journals--"a majestic story of epic proportions"( Philip Edwards in the Introduction ) Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions between 1768...
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Ancient Hawaii
Kawainui Press
Kawainui Press
How ancient Polynesian explorers found the Hawaiian Islands, the most remote in Earth's largest sea; how they navigated, how they viewed themselves and their universe, and the arts, crafts, and values by which they survived and prospered without...
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The Girl From Botany Bay
Carolly Erickson
Wiley
Wiley
Acclaim for Carolly Erickson "Carolly Erickson is one of the most accomplished and successful historical biographers writing in English." -The Times Literary Supplement The First Elizabeth "Even more readable and absorbing...
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
David G. Campbell
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
In The Crystal Desert David Campbell weaves together travelogue gathered from his many visits to the wind-blasted continent of Antarctica, along with natural history, oceanography, and accounts of the tortured attempts of earlier exploratory...
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
Tim Flannery
Grove Press
Grove Press
Humans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering...
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Tarawa and the Marshalls: A Pictorial Tribute (U.S. Marines in World War II)
Eric Hammel
Zenith Press
Zenith Press
Some of the biggest battles fought by the Marines during World War II took place on tiny islands scattered throughout the western Pacific. Among these, the battles for Tarawa and the Marshalls were some of the fiercest and most decisive of the...
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Jennifer Niven
Hyperion
Hyperion
Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on...
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Then There Were None
Martha H. Noyes
Bess Press
Bess Press
Then There Were None, by award-winning Honolulu writer and artist Martha H. Noyes, is a personal and emotional account, in words and pictures, of the effect of Western contact on the Hawaiian population. Drawing from a variety of sources, Noyes...
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