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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.…	Charles Darwin	I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scie…	OL15155498W
Historical atlas	William R. Shepherd	Text links are to Duperrey, Voyage autour du monde (1826)	OL1537186W
Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New continent during the years 1799…	Alexander von Humboldt	Travel book by multi-disciplinary scientist Humboldt.	OL1554082W
The descent	Jeff Long	A mountaineer in Tibet falls down a hole to emerge in a subterranean world, populated by brutish and horned creatures. Is this the hell of the Bible? As scientists and philosophers debate, a global r…	OL16043428W
Authority	Jeff VanderMeer	For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X, a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, …	OL17453058W
Search for the golden moon bear	Sy Montgomery	"Only eight bear species are known to science: the American black bear; the grizzly; the polar bear; the South American spectacled bear; Asia's sun bear, moon bear, and sloth bear; and the Chinese pa…	OL1819449W
Mountains of madness	Long, John A.	A riveting account of a modern scientific expedition to the Antarctic.	OL19889311W
Rifling paradise	Jem Poster	When past indiscretions catch up with Charles Redbourne, a minor English landowner, he is propelled from England to Australia, where he plans to make his mark as a naturalist. There, his life begins …	OL19929938W
Dinosaurology	Raleigh Rimes	A fictitious explorer recounts his adventures with Percy Fawcett as they traveled to South America, where they encountered dinosaurs in the rain forest.	OL19974674W
The last of the sandwalkers	Jay Hosler	Nestled in the grass under the big palm tree by the edge of the desert there is an entire civilization--a civilization of beetles. In this bug's paradise, beetles write books, run restaurants, and ev…	OL19999026W
Landfalls	Naomi J. Williams	"Reimagines the historical Lapérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, more than two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in …	OL20005935W
Sands of death	Michael Asher	In December 1880 a French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway that would stretch from their colony in Algeria right across the Sahara desert to reach their territories in West Africa. T…	OL21178397W
Journals of Andrew J. Stone	A. J. Stone	"New York City was abuzz on 3 April 1903; Andrew J. Stone, world-renowned Arctic explorer and hunter-naturalist, was fêted with a dinner/reception at the American Museum of Natural History. The East …	OL22424905W
The collector of lost things	Jeremy Page	In 1845, young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an Arctic expedition to find the remains of the by-now-extinct great auk, a large, flightless bird of mythical status, and is trapped on a hunti…	OL24255629W
Racing with death	Beau Riffenburgh	In 'Racing with Death', Beau Riffenburgh rediscovers the almost forgotten story of Mawson - with Shackleton and Scott, one of the three 'greats' of Antarctic exploration. It is an unforgettable story…	OL24294457W
Expedition	Chris Wainwright	'Economic' and 'crisis', are two familiar terms that have dominated the second decade of the twenty-first century, and that have given rise to shifts in political discourse that raise concern for art…	OL27705780W
Searching for Isabel Godin	Celia Wakefield	"Popular account of the Mission geodésique of 1735 and of Isabel Godin's 1769 trek from her native Riobamba to the mouth of the Amazon to rejoin her husband, whom she had not seen in 20 years. An en…	OL3487639W
The private journal of William Reynolds	Reynolds, William	Never before published-a major source for National Book Award Winner Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling Sea of GloryOne of the finest nineteenth-century first-person narratives of a sea voyage in exis…	OL4622069W
Karluk	William Laird McKinlay	Account of loss of Karluk, and subsequent ordeal of survivors, during Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18, written by expedition's magnetician and meteorologist.	OL66403W
Endurance	Alfred Lansing	Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside …	OL874159W