Exploration Era

Embark on a thrilling adventure with Jules Verne’s "Around the World in Eighty Days: Adapted for Modern Readers." This refreshed edition breathes new life into the classic tale with clean formatting and contemporary typography, making it more accessible for today's audience. The adapted language ensures clarity while preserving Verne’s original tone, allowing modern readers to dive seamlessly into the whirlwind journey that has captivated imaginations for generations. Set against the backdrop of the 19th century, this timeless narrative follows Phileas Fogg in a daring race against the ...

Uncover Japan's Secrets in One Epic Volume From the mysterious Jōmon people to the heights of its technological prowess, Japan’s story is a 10,000-year saga of ruthless warriors, spiritual emperors, and revolutionary rebirth. Beneath the history books lie the timeless legends: the divine creation myths, the harrowing ghost stories, and the tales of samurai honor that define the nation's soul. Two manuscripts in one book: History of Japan: An Enthralling Journey Through Ancient Japanese Empires, the Shogunate Era, Cultural Renaissance, and Modern Period Japanese Folktales and Legends: An ...

A supernatural thriller set in Dublin, Ireland during the late 19th to early 20th century. In "Ghost Hunter Chronicles," journey through the shadowy corridors of Victorian-era Dublin and beyond, where every corner might conceal a spectral visitor or uncanny mystery. This captivating ghost story delves deep into the life of a man whose extraordinary encounters with the supernatural lead him from curious fascination to relentless ghost hunter. From his mystical roots tied to ancient Celtic forebears, the protagonist unfolds his tale, beginning with his initial eerie experience in a haunted ...

Even as one challenge is dealt with, a greater threat appears. Now, Silas finds himself adrift in the multiverse, but this is exactly the sort of adventure he's been longing for. There are monsters to slay, crafting to be done, and friends to make...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion...

Discover & Enjoy America’s Past Like Never Before with An Immersive, Entertaining Journey into United States Early History! Step back into enchanting, early America & bring your family, friends, & history buffs on a thrilling adventure: the first European explorers to the United States birth! Much more than a game—it’s an interactive experience that blends entertainment, education, hilarity & healthy, friendly competition. You’ll Love: 1. 776+ Engaging, Entertaining Questions – Packed with hundreds of multiple-choice questions & long, intriguing, interesting fact filled, often ...

Something is attacking ships in the world's oceans. It is fast, nearly indestructible, and capable of punching holes through iron hulls. The scientific consensus, led by Professor Pierre Aronnax of the Paris Museum of Natural History, is that it must be a creature — a narwhal of extraordinary size, perhaps, something evolved in the ocean's unexplored depths. The consensus is wrong. It is not a creature. It is the Nautilus. And once Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land find themselves aboard it — guests, prisoners, the distinction is never quite established ...

This book takes you on a journey through the eccentric and often downright bizarre legal codes that governed this legendary era. From the early 1800s to the turn of the century, the Wild West was a land of adventure, lawlessness, and boundless creativity. Pioneers, prospectors and settlers faced the chaos of frontier life with inventive—and sometimes ridiculous—legal solutions. All who lived in the time of the Wild West, while carving out new lives in a vast and unpredictable land, were faced with the monumental task of creating a new society from scratch. In response to the chaos of ...

Five Union prisoners escape the horrors of the Civil War in a daring hot air balloon flight—only to be swept away by a storm and stranded on a mysterious, uncharted island in the middle of the Pacific. Led by the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith, the group must summon every ounce of their courage, knowledge, and resourcefulness to survive the wild landscape, tame the island’s untold dangers, and uncover its secrets. From constructing a hidden shelter to creating electricity, the men use science and ingenuity to turn the unknown into opportunity. But there is something strange about this ...

Jules Verne (1828–1905) transformed the literary landscape of the nineteenth century, pioneering a new form of fiction that merged rigorous scientific inquiry with breathtaking adventure. His novels—Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days—established him as the founding father of science fiction and redefined what popular literature could achieve. Verne's genius lay in his ability to ground fantastical voyages in meticulous research and technical plausibility, creating narratives that educated even as they ...

What if the history you were taught left out the most vital pieces of the story? From the footsteps of the First Nations who shaped the land for millennia, to the daring Viking explorers, to the clash of empires that decided the fate of an entire continent—Canada’s history is filled with untold stories waiting to be discovered. Canada’s Unwritten History brings to life the extraordinary journey of a nation forged not in a single moment, but through centuries of resilience, struggle, and cultural exchange. With vivid storytelling, this book traces the origins of Canada from its ...

In the frozen North, gold fever burns hotter than any fire—and destroys everything it touches When French-Canadian cousins Ben Raddle and Summy Skim inherit a mining claim in the Klondike, they journey north during the height of the 1890s gold rush, expecting adventure and perhaps modest fortune. What they find instead is a hell of frozen rivers, makeshift cities, desperate men, and the legend of the Gold Volcano—a mountain said to contain such wealth that it will one day erupt, showering gold across the landscape. Written by Jules Verne in 1899 and published posthumously in 1906 after ...

A historical adventure book set in North America during the 1860s. Embark on a riveting journey through uncharted territories with "Golden Horizons," a sweeping historical tale set against the backdrop of the 1860s. This engaging narrative follows a colorful ensemble as they traverse rugged landscapes, endure perilous voyages, and witness the feverish frenzy of the gold rush era. The story begins on a murky June day in 1862, as our protagonists board the screw-steamer Anglo-Saxon in Liverpool, headed for Quebec. Their voyage across the tumultuous Atlantic introduces them to a fascinating ...

“Haunting...Ominous.” —The New York Times Book Review A “wonderfully chilling” (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) polar gothic about a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate–and redemption–from the Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of All the...

They walked a thousand miles to find a harbor that didn't exist. They found San Francisco Bay instead. They didn't want it. In 1769, a Spanish expedition of sixty-four men left San Diego under orders to locate the harbor of Monterey. Their engineer, Miguel Costansó, kept a diary of measurements: distances, latitudes, the depth of every pool, the height of a dead grizzly bear. He did not record feelings. He recorded facts. The facts are these: the men walked for six months through canyons and mountains and fog. They ate their mules when the food ran out. Seventeen soldiers were crippled by ...

For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.

September 1775. Two hundred and forty people walk out of Sonora into the desert. They are soldiers, wives, children, priests, and a thousand animals. They are carrying everything they own. They are going to found San Francisco. Fray Pedro Font is the expedition's chaplain and astronomer — a man with a quadrant, a diary, and orders to record what he sees. What he sees is the hardest overland journey in the history of the American West: the crossing of the Colorado River, the killing sands of the Imperial Dunes, three children born on the open road, and a commander named Anza who holds 240 ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Discovery, then pay attention.... The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration. This was a time when the people of Europe began to travel, discover, and explore more of the world than ever before, mapping and naming the places they found. They bravely went out on the seas to learn about the world, often never sure if they would find anything at all, let alone ever return home.

From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for modern oceanography. Following the ship's naturalists and their discoveries, earth scientist Doug Macdougall engagingly tells a story of Victorian-era adventure and ties these early explorations to the growth of modern scientific fields.  

In 2029 the Earth is in crisis and its only hope is... a talking pug with a mustache and glasses. Can he change the fate of the entire universe? Puggy’s earliest memory is waking up in a field in Texas, just before his human family discovers him and he becomes their beloved pet. He’s always felt…different, and not just because he is able to speak, something that he intuitively knows he needs to keep to himself. Things are bleak on Earth; it has been overdeveloped with huge buildings, blocking sunlight and becoming nearly uninhabitable with drastically declining resources. The New ...