Discovery and exploration
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The Lost World
Pastwatch
Heimskringla; Lives/Saga of the Norse Kings
Into the Wild
My Name Is York
A voyage long and strange
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
A voyage to the Pacific Ocean
Léon l'Africain
They came before Columbus
The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada
Icebound
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
Fingerprints of the gods
The discovery of India
South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition
Dark Matter
Water music
Ice Station
Os Lusíadas
Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations
Columbus and Other Cannibals
The King's Fifth
Endurance
Into Africa
1493
Arctic Dreams
Heart of Darkness
The Lost City of Z
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