 | A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer by Diana Preston
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.79 Amazing, fascinating, a pleasure to read
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 | The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia by Samuel White Baker
Buy used from: $40.00 Victorian exploration of the Nile - in style!
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 | The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
Buy used from: $0.75 Extraordinary chronicle of a woman's determination and perseverance. You'll name your daughter Isabel. If you don't care for the science, start at chapter 9.
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 | Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe by Diana Souhami
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.01 Where men are men and goats are nervous...
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 | The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.94 Whetted my appetite for Nile exploration
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 | The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.45 Burton, Speke and Baker, what more do you need?
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 | The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder
Buy new: $12.80 / Used from: $2.95 A bit redundant at times, but an interesting study in the psychological differences of 2 men performing the same daunting task. Mechain, we suffered with you. Delambre, if we were only more like you.
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 | The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 The world of maps is interesting, the crime intriguing, the criminal disappointing.
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