Ocean Expedition

The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oceans – the ultimate frontier of our planet. Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain a...

Dr. Elena Marquez has spent her life searching for evidence that Atlantis was more than a legend. She never expected Atlantis to find her first. More than a mile beneath the Atlantic, Elena and pilot Daniel Mercer discover an impossible city hidden behind ancient barriers, temporal distortions, and creatures unlike anything known to modern science. The ruins should have been dead for thousands of years. They are not. When Elena begins receiving messages from people who should be dead—including her own mother—she realizes the expedition has uncovered far more than a lost civilization. ...

""Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and...

In a modern world, were communication and global reach is a given, staying stock in the middle of the arctic tundra, a group of scientists will face an evil, never before seen, by human eyes. the adventures and mysteries they will encounter will leave you breathless, and asking for more, the smell and flavor of human flesh will not be easily ignored. lost , in a trail. whiteout blizzards and blackout nights.

Three brothers. 9,753 miles. 139 days. Peru to Australia. 6 million oar strokes. A record-breaking odyssey. 'Epic' BEAR GRYLLS 'Unbelievable' EWAN McGREGOR 'An inspiring tale of endurance, bravery and fortitude' BEN FOGLE 'Amazing' LORRAINE KELLY 'Next level' MARK WAHLBERG When the Maclean...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets “An irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and...

Two miles beneath the surface, the truth is waiting to tear them apart. Eleven years ago, Nacre Dynamics claimed the research submersible Asterion suffered a catastrophic pressure failure. Marine systems engineer Tamsin Rook accepted the official implosion story to cope with the death of her sister. But that fragile peace shatters when a new sonar sweep discovers the vessel lying perfectly intact on the ocean floor. Driven by the need for answers, Tamsin joins a corporate recovery expedition to examine the wreckage. When she reaches the dark zone, the physical evidence is undeniable: the ...

Three centuries ago, captain Gideon Rake buried a staggering fortune on an uncharted Atlantic outpost before leaving a frantic warning about the massive beasts that forced him to flee. Now, historian Dr. Tessa Vale has decoded Rake's lost notes and led a salvage team to the exact coordinates. She hopes to document a biological impossibility and secure her academic legacy. The heavily armed rival crew tracking her wake simply wants the gold, and they are willing to slaughter anyone standing in their way. As a massive hurricane traps both teams, they are forced to navigate a labyrinth of ...

Bloomsbury presents Race for the South Pole by Roland Huntford. read by David Thorpe For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his...

T he fifth volume of Freya’s epic journey captures the unrelenting pace of an expedition spanning October 2023 to March 2025. Moving through five Central American countries—Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico—before shifting back to the Canadian Arctic, Freya presents a narrative centered on administrative navigation, equipment maintenance, and environmental survival. This volume serves as an authentic record of the daily grind and the logistical mastery required to sustain a world-record attempt when circumstances turn against the traveler. The southern journey begins ...

In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...

Ines Roque lost her brother in the 2011 crossing. She has never said his name aboard. Now the Pelagia is anchored over the Tenney Seamount, laying Rook Ferreira's sensor net around a trench whose depth kills sonar and whose current has never been kind. Every mile of cable is a bet, and Ines knows what the sea does with bets. Priya Naicker has proof there is only one animal down there. Kit Saracen has a documentary deal contingent on more footage. Dr. Ilse Brandt of the Sanctuary Authority has a suspension order she has not yet served. Halden Voss, the fishing captain who once ran the coast ...

In 1870, a man took a bet. He said he could sail a twenty-foot yawl across the Atlantic. East to west. The hard way. Most men would have laughed. He didn’t. He just went. The Ocean Wager tells the true story of Captain Nikola Primorac, a quiet sailor from Dubrovnik who risked everything to cross the sea in a boat smaller than most lifeboats. No engine. No charts worth trusting. No backup. Just sails, salt, and the will to endure. This is not a tale of glory. There are no parades here. No medals. Just storms and silence. Just two men and a dog, soaked and half-mad, crawling across a grey ...

After a long and exalted military career, General Connor Gates thought he was finally ready to retire. He was wrong. When interstellar probes sent to Earth’s star system report back 40 years earlier than expected, the colonists learn that humans somehow survived the cataclysmic events of the past…but so did the enemy.

The ocean remembers. After surviving the unimaginable discoveries beneath the Pacific, marine explorer Jack Sullivan thought he understood the secrets hidden beneath Earth's oceans. He was wrong. When an unmapped trench deeper than any known abyss is discovered, Jack and his team descend into a forgotten world erased from every map in history. Even the mysterious Watchers refuse to enter. Ancient civilizations left no records of what lies below. Instead, they left only one warning. Do not awaken what sleeps beneath the Devil's Trench. As impossible creatures emerge from the darkness and ...

“A gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that “captures rarely observed natural places” (San Francisco Chronicle) a woman and her toddler son follow...

Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter traveled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within. In The Voyage of Sorcerer II, Venter and writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.

Seven hundred meters into the Atlantic abyss, Amara's sonar catches a fissure glowing like a heartbeat - and something ancient looks back through it. She's the only diver on her ship's crew who has ever gone this deep and come back. She's about to find out why no one else has. What her captain hauls up isn't wreckage. It's Olokun - the drowned Yoruba capital of the god of the deep seas, fully intact, exactly where legend swore it couldn't exist. Every reading the crew takes wakes the city a little further. The storms roll in within hours. The currents stop answering to the charts. Warning ...

The Bermuda Triangle has claimed ships, planes, and countless imaginations—but is the truth stranger than the legend? For over a century, stories of ghost ships, vanishing aircraft, and malfunctioning compasses have haunted the waters between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Dubbed “The Devil’s Triangle” and “The Lingo of the Lost”, this region has become one of the most enduring mysteries on Earth. But how much of what we’ve been told is real—and how much is myth layered over myth? In Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved, author Eleanor Whitcombe takes you on an unforgettable ...

'Thrillingly compelling' Daily Telegraph 'A compelling combination of betrayal, catastrophe, starvation, madness, mutiny, murder and revenge' Spectator 'Extraordinary ... An eye-opening, twist-filled epic of heroism, hardship and weapons-grade narcissism' The Times 'A fabulous tale of ambition...