BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers

Vagabond Princess

The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

by Ruby Lal

Providence and the Invention of American History

by Sarah Koenig

The Multifarious Mr. Banks

From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World

by Toby Musgrave

Sons of the Waves

The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail

by Stephen Taylor

Nature Shock

Getting Lost in America

by Jon T. Coleman

Peak Pursuits

The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century

by Caroline Schaumann

Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest

The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography

by Doug Macdougall

A Little History of Archaeology

Little Histories

by Brian Fagan

Captain Cook and the Pacific

Art, Exploration and Empire

by John McAleer and Nigel Rigby

Visual Voyages

Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

by Daniela Bleichmar

The Long Space Age

The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War

by Alexander MacDonald

The First Circumnavigators

Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

by Harry Kelsey

Heroic Failure and the British

by Stephanie Barczewski

The Captain and "the Cannibal"

An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

New Directions in Narrative History

by James Fairhead

Livingstone

by Tim Jeal

An Empire of Ice

Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

by Edward J. Larson