The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of Mount McKinley's first ascent and this is a true and complete account of the first successful ascent of North America's highest summit - setting the record straight. The book features archival photographs, including rare and never-before-published images. The Seventymile Kid tells the remarkable account of Harry Karstens, who was the actual - if unheralded - leader of the Hudson Stuck Expedition that was the first to summit Mount McKinley in Alas...
Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China (Hakluyt Society, First)
'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338, in English translation. With a list of 'illustrations from drawings by the author'. This and volume II (First Series 37) have continuous main pagination. The supplementary material includes the 1866 annual...
In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of their lives with the resilient tribal communities they found there. People of the Rainforest recounts the Villas Boas brothers' four thrilling and dangerous 'first contacts' with isolated indigenous people, and their lifelong mission to learn abou...
With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English. At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encount...
In 1899 Robert Peary, exploring northern Greenland in search of the North Pole, lost seven toes to frostbite but refused to cut his exploration short to seek treatment. When his wife learned of his condition, she and their seven-year-old daughter set off in July 1900 to find Peary and persuade him to come home. The 1901 expedition documented in this fascinating new book was organized to deliver supplies to Peary and to search for his wife and child. The book comprises the annotated diaries and p...
Snow on the Equator; The Ascent of Nanda Devi; When Men & Mountains Meet; Mt. Everest; Two Mountains & a River; China to Chitral; and Nepal Himalaya.
The journal of Peveril Meigs and Richard Worsam Meade of their voyage to Alaska on the Saginaw.
First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition
by Noah Brooks
