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The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous a...
Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite made possible the famous industrial megaprojects that transformed the countryside and defined the...
The Life of Roald Amundsen
The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, th...
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading com...
The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen
One hundred years have passed since Robert Falcon Scott's beleagured expeditionary team arrived at the South Pole, only to find that they had been bea...
The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition — and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place i...
How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships ...
In the early 1900s, many of the great geographical mysteries that had intrigued adventurers for centuries remained unsolved: the polar regions -- the ...
Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in...
Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never ...
The Life of Roald Amundsen, Conqueror of the South Pole
How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
The author of "Merchant Kings" reveals the untold story of how a personal struggle between queens and kings, churchmen and explorers split the globe b...
Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History
Sightseers and Scholars provides portraits of the explorers and naturalists who sought to explore the New World in the pre-Darwinian Age. The late 18t...
Wilderness Journeys Down the Historic Trails of the Canadian Rockies
Traversing the historic trails of the Rockies today is done in much the same manner as it was two centuries ago—primarily on foot with heavy packs, ...
How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Helped Britain Win the Battle of Trafalgar
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, one dreaded foe was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses co...