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Magnificent Desolation
The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Written by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $11.99
Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had... Read more >
The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Written by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $11.99
Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Time Bandit
Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
Written by Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand and Malcolm MacPherson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $16.00
Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot... Read more >
Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
Written by Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand and Malcolm MacPherson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $16.00
Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot... Read more >
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Amerigo
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $11.99
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer.
In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by... Read more >
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $11.99
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer.
In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Amerigo
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $15.00
In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a rogue and raconteur who counted Christopher Columbus among his friends and rivals; an amateur... Read more >
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $15.00
In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a rogue and raconteur who counted Christopher Columbus among his friends and rivals; an amateur... Read more >
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Marco Polo
From Venice to Xanadu
Written by Laurence Bergreen
Read by Paul Boehmer
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $20.00
As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully... Read more >
From Venice to Xanadu
Written by Laurence Bergreen
Read by Paul Boehmer
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $20.00
As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully... Read more >
Marco Polo
Written by Laurence Bergreen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $13.99
As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most... Read more >
Written by Laurence Bergreen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $13.99
As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Marco Polo
From Venice to Xanadu
Written by Laurence Bergreen
Read by Paul Boehmer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $27.50
As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully... Read more >
From Venice to Xanadu
Written by Laurence Bergreen
Read by Paul Boehmer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $27.50
As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully... Read more >
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Forever on the Mountain
The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
Written by James Tabor
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $25.00
In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped seven veteran climbers, members of Joe Wilcox’s twelve-man expedition, at 20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley. Ten days passed while the storm raged. Despite the availability of massive resources, no rescue was mounted, and all seven men died. The tragedy was one... Read more >
The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
Written by James Tabor
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $25.00
In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped seven veteran climbers, members of Joe Wilcox’s twelve-man expedition, at 20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley. Ten days passed while the storm raged. Despite the availability of massive resources, no rescue was mounted, and all seven men died. The tragedy was one... Read more >
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Seaworthy
Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Written by T. R. Pearson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and... Read more >
Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Written by T. R. Pearson
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Seaworthy
Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Written by T. R. Pearson
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $9.99
Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and... Read more >
Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Written by T. R. Pearson
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $9.99
Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $15.00
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $15.00
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
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Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Read by Josh Davis
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $20.00
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Read by Josh Davis
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $20.00
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
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Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $10.99
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $10.99
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $20.00
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $20.00
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >
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True North: Peary, Cook and the Race to the Pole
Written by Bruce Henderson
Read by Bruce Henderson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $17.50
Read more >
Written by Bruce Henderson
Read by Bruce Henderson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $17.50
Read more >
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Into Africa
The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
Written by Martin Dugard
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $16.00
With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is... Read more >
The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
Written by Martin Dugard
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $16.00
With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is... Read more >
