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Columbus
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Laurence Bergreen |
An epic historical adventure awaits. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed ev… |
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Longitude
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Dava Sobel |
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
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In the land of white death
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Valerian Albanov,Linda Dubosson,Valerian Ivanovich Alʹbanov |
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prov… |
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