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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. T ...Show more
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD by Katherine Rundell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.As the plane crashes into t ...Show more
Hubert Who : War Hero. Polar Explorer. Spy. The Incredible Life of Unsung Adventurer Hubert Wilkins by Malcolm Andrews
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and secret agent; loyal lieutenant to Shackleton, Bean and Hearst; the last man from the West to meet with Lenin ... Sir Hubert Wilkins lived many lives - all of them exciting and fantastic.
The French Explorers and Sydney by Colin Dyer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The early years of Sydney were witnessed by seven expeditions of French exploration between 1788 and 1831. These expeditions spent well over a year in the new town of Sydney meeting most of its leading citizens and visiting its expanding environs. The French explorers, including Freycinet, Laperouse and ...Show more
Explorers of the Nile : The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
$50.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives ...Show more
The Modern Explorers: Epic Journeys to the Ends of the World by Robin Hanbury-Tenison; Robert Twigger
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly describe challenging and extraordinary expeditions to ...Show more
The Explorers by Tim Flannery (ed.)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us beyond the frontier into a world of danger, compassion, humour ...Show more
Explorers of the Nile: the Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives ...Show more
The Modern Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
This book profiles thirty-nine modern explorers who have disproved the idea that there is nowhere left to discover and explore. Some are greatly experienced and are celebrated worldwide, while others are young or less well known and just starting to make their mark. Here are challenging and extraordina ...Show more
Nature’s Explorers: Adventurers Who Recorded the Wonders of the Natural World by Natural History Museum
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
Nature's Explorers celebrates the individuals who made great personal endeavours to document the natural world. Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries have been chosen to illustrate each essay.From ground-breaking theorists such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to evocative ...Show more
Australia's Great Western Deserts - The Land - the People - the Explorers by Simon Nevill
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Ocean Squid Explorers' Club (#4 Explorers' Club) by Alex Bell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: The Polar Bear Explorers' Club
In this fourth explorers adventure we meet Ursula, a part mermaid girl who is determined to follow in Stella's footsteps and help her to defeat the Collector! Ursula knew the submarine wasn't designed to go this deep, but what choice did they have? No one wanted to get swallowed up by a colossal sneezi ...Show more