Physical Geography

The great unknown of the Southwest is conquered by a one-armed man and his crew of adventurers, placing the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon on the map of the American continent....

The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell. Take a fascinating journey through strange and exotic countries...

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....

When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming....

Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it....

From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.

How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted....

The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War....

To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation....

Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors....

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds....

Amid the chaos of the French Revolution, two astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world...

This is the true story of a Harvard graduate who forsook his studies for two years of the grueling life of an ordinary seaman....

This audiobook offers an informative approach to finding a variety of birds across a variety of habitats. It is broken down by season and habitat.... 

Captain Guyan March had spent his entire professional career aboard Windjammer Barefoot Cruises’ fleet of extravagant tall ships that carry passengers on weeklong fantasy cruises spiced with rum and sun....

Hear the riveting stories of men and women battling the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms...

Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field....

This is the original audiobook that spawned a thousand theories and is still heating up the blogosphere today. A must-have for out-of-the-box thinkers....

Una obra vívida y poética que recuerda los viajes alrededor del mundo y los encuentros humanos, animales y naturales que han dado forma...

Here, political scientist Jakub J. Grygiel brings to light the importance of incorporating geography into grand strategy....

At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic expedition to the mountain's immense south-west face....

Davanti alla maestosità delle Alpi, al verde dei boschi appenninici, ai suggestivi e irripetibili scorci della laguna veneta, della penisola...

People of the World becomes a fascinating round-the-world tour of customs and traditions, as well as a go-to source for background information to round out one's own family history....

"We don't govern water. Water governs us," writes James Workman....

In January 1910, the Alaska Steamship Company's Farallon struck Black Reef in Cook Inlet. In a daring attempt to find help, six men launched a lifeboat on the open sea....