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  • Ancient Ocean Crossings

    Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas

    by Stephen C. Jett ...
    Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one anotherIn Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • Two Years Before the Mast

    Enriched edition. A Sailor's Journey Through 19th Century Maritime Adventures

    by Richard Henry Dana, Melissa Glass ...
    Richard Henry Dana's seminal work, "Two Years Before the Mast," is an evocative narrative that chronicles his youthful maritime adventures aboard a merchant ship in the early 19th century. Written in a compelling first-person style, Dana's detailed observations reveal the hardships and beauty of life at sea, while also providing a poignant commentary on the social dynamics and labor conditions of ... Read more

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  • The Great Race

    The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

    by David Hill ...
    On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island.And so began ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Burke and Wills

    The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller.'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Titanic

    Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Greatest Shipwreck

    by National Geographic ...
    Series series National Geographic Shorts
    On the 100th anniversary of Titanic's sinking, National Geographic revisits the romance, glory, and tragedy of this tremendous ship and presents an insider's look at the new findings about the passengers and scientific study of the wreck site. For 100 years the great ship Titanic has rested in its final grave on the ocean floor, lost to deep ocean darkness until its 1985 discovery by National ... Read more

    $5.43 CAD

  • The Luck of the Karluk

    Shipwrecked in the Arctic

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community. Little did the team of distinguished scholars and scientists realize, however, how their hopes would ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Far Traveler

    Voyages of a Viking Woman

    by Nancy Marie Brown ...
    The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fire Canoe

    Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited

    by Ted Barris ...
    The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie waterways. Their operators were businessmen hoping to reap the benefits of commercial enterprise along ... Read more

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  • Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny

    Expeditions to Destiny

    by Anthony Dalton ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin’s expedition passed into legend as one of the North’s great and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Arctic Labyrinth

    The Quest For The Northwest Passage

    by Glyn Williams ...
    As a result of global warming and the subsequent shrinking of Arctic ice, for the first time in seafaring history a navigable Northwest Passage, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, will open up. The possibility of seasonal shipping lanes has renewed the world's interest, and there are lessons to be learned for the next explorers striving to be the first to finally realize a sustainable and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The General Grant´s Gold

    Shipwreck and greed in the Southern Ocean

    by Madelene Ferguson Allen, Ken Scadden ...
    The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. The General Grant was rumoured to contain a fabulous hoard of gold found in the Victorian goldfields; gold estimated to be worth in excess of US 10 million. This is the story of both the extraordinary shipwreck itself and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808

    Edited by W. Kaye Lamb ...
    Series Book 6 - Voyageur Classics
    B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia. Certainly, the achievements of the Scottish-descended United Empire Loyalist adventurer were impressive. During three extraordinary years, 1805-1808, Fraser undertook the third major expedition (after Alexander Mackenzie's and Lewis and Clark's) across North ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD