John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage of European Americans through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881-1894), and was also the director of the Bureau...

RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's fleet, sank in the great St. Narciso hurricane of late October 1867, a devastating category three storm that bored a line east to west atop the Antilles, and ruthlessly thinned the islands' population while it sank some seventy ships in port and local waters. Fleeing from Tortola across Drake Strait and toward open water at full speed, through the backside...

The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine passageway that connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This tale would be the catalyst for centuries of dreaming, and exacerbate English and Spanish rivalry. The search for the fabled Northwest Passage inspired explorers to seek out fame, adventure, knowledge and riches. Likewise, the empires...

Balboa, Cortés, Pizarro, Colón, De la Cosa, Magallanes, Elcano… Descubra la apasionante historia de los más intrépidos exploradores que dibujaron un nuevo mundo gracias a sus hazañas y gestas inigualables. La peripecia de la conquista de América y sus protagonistas desde el primer viaje colombino hasta la ordenación política y social del amplísimo territorio descubierto en una de las más grandes epopeyas de la humanidad. Breve historia...

Cradled in the valley of the Arno, its noble architecture fitly supplementing its numerous natural charms, lies the Tuscan city of Florence, the birthplace of immortal Dante, the early home of Michael Angelo, the seat of the Florentine Medici, the scene of Savonarola's triumphs and his tragic end. Fame has come to many sons of Florence, as poets, statesmen, sculptors, painters, travellers; but perhaps none has achieved a distinction so unique, apart,...

In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole. What inspired their dangerous fascination? For some, it was the romantic theory about a 'lost world,' a hidden continent in the Arctic Ocean. Others were seduced by new aviation technology, which they...

The Boone and Crockett Club has brought back to life Frederick Courteney Selous' epic African adventure in a meticulously remastered, high-quality paperback edition. Follow noted adventurer, Selous, as he spends nine years amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa as a professional hunter beginning in 1871, at the young age of 20. In his preface he notes, "... my pages are naturally chiefly devoted to the ferae naturae amongst, which I...

Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged. This book features essays in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida from the first explorers to the latest Hispanic migrations into Miami.

The first book in Boone and Crockett Club's new series of digitally remastered classics. Travel to British Columbia with William T. Hornaday and John M. Phillips as they travel by horseback on an expedition to collect museum specimens and all the while capturing their adventures with a HawkEye Stereo Camera.

Genghis Khan (también conocido como Gengis Kan fue el fundador del Imperio mongol que gobernó desde 1206 hasta su muerte en 1227. Nacido como Temuyín, adquirió el título de Genghis Khan, que probablemente significa "gobernante universal", tras unificar las tribus mongoles. Totalmente despiadado con sus enemigos, en sus campañas de terror fueron masacrados innumerables inocentes, millones según los cronistas medievales. Genghis Khan tenía una...