Category - History
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Half Interest in a Silver Dollar: The Saga of Charles E. Conrad
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The life of Charles E. Conrad and the history of Fort Benton, Montana Territory, are so intertwined that the story of one cannot be told independ...
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles lo...
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The Voyageur's Highway: Minnesota's Border Lake Land
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people—explorers, fur tr...
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Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps we...
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The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geograph...
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize fin...
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Jim Bridger - Mountain Man
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /This antiquarian volume contains a detailed and insightful biography of Jim Bridger, written by Stanley Vestal. Vestal is well-known for his book...
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /When Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unanswered--his journals were impoun...
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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of M...
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Mapping Christopher Columbus: An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The impact of Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic voyage launched an unprecedented explosion of European exploration. Throughout the last 5...
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You Can't Win
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. The book tells of ...
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The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five-year expedition in South America--from the autho...
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charle...
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pac...
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The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centenn...
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to in...
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing sa...
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The Explorer and the Journalist: The Extraordinary Story of Frederick Cook and Philip Gibbs
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The first book to explore in full the extraordinary story of how a British journalist risked his career to expose American explorer Frederick Cook,...
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Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A fascinating historical account of a largely forgotten statesman, who pioneered a form of patriotism that left an indelible mark on the early Unit...
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The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the est...
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from unc...
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Evocación: Mi Vida Al Lado del Che
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this Spanish-language edition, Che Guevara’s widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Boli...
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /National Outdoor Book Awards Winner The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define i...
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York ...
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