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The Sea Captain's Wife : A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World. by Mazzeo, Tilar J.;
It's 1856 and a young woman joins her captain husband on a sea voyage going from New York to San Francisco. When the husband takes ill, Mary Ann Patten takes the helm as the first female to command a merchant vessel. Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, 'The Sea Captain's Wife' finally gives Patten her due. Tilar Mazzeo lives in Vancouver, BC. A RADD Pick.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries; HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy; HISTORY / Women;
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Vanished Beyond the Map The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell [electronic resource] : by Shoalts, Adam.aut; CloudLibrary;
Canada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old. In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, Darrell later made his name as an expert guide, trapper, and restless wanderer who ventured where few others dared. At a time when travel by dogsled in the North was the norm, Darrell became legendary for traversing thousands of kilometres alone and on foot; ranging over mountains and across windswept tundra from Alaska to Hudson Bay. During his epic journeys, he helped rescue sailors trapped in sea ice, led Mounties on their patrols, and even guided some of the era’s most famous explorers. Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole, held Darrell in awe, remarking once that with men like him, he could go to the moon. Contemporaries regarded Darrell as the hardiest, most competent explorer of his day. Despite clues reported by Inuit trappers and Mounted Police inquiries, his fate remains a mystery. While his disappearance sparked headlines around the world, Darrell’s name would soon also vanish from the history books, ironically, just as surely as he had in the wild. Yet Darrell left behind a trail of letters, journals, and hand-drawn maps. With these faded clues and his zeal for adventure, Adam Shoalts retraces Darrell’s forgotten routes through the wilderness, searching for cabin ruins and old campsites. He unearths water-stained records and tracks down elderly individuals in the hopes that they might remember someone who’d known Darrell. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person adventure narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expeditions with historical research to solve one of exploration history’s enduring cold cases—the mystery of Hubert Darrell.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Canada; Expeditions & Discoveries; Historical Geography;
© 2025., Penguin Canada,
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Vanished Beyond the Map The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell [electronic resource] : by Shoalts, Adam.aut; Shoalts, Adam.nrt; CloudLibrary;
Canada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old. In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, Darrell later made his name as an expert guide, trapper, and restless wanderer who ventured where few others dared. At a time when travel by dogsled in the North was the norm, Darrell became legendary for traversing thousands of kilometres alone and on foot; ranging over mountains and across windswept tundra from Alaska to Hudson Bay. During his epic journeys, he helped rescue sailors trapped in sea ice, led Mounties on their patrols, and even guided some of the era’s most famous explorers. Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole, held Darrell in awe, remarking once that with men like him, he could go to the moon. Contemporaries regarded Darrell as the hardiest, most competent explorer of his day. Despite clues reported by Inuit trappers and Mounted Police inquiries, his fate remains a mystery. While his disappearance sparked headlines around the world, Darrell’s name would soon also vanish from the history books, ironically, just as surely as he had in the wild. Yet Darrell left behind a trail of letters, journals, and hand-drawn maps. With these faded clues and his zeal for adventure, Adam Shoalts retraces Darrell’s forgotten routes through the wilderness, searching for cabin ruins and old campsites. He unearths water-stained records and tracks down elderly individuals in the hopes that they might remember someone who’d known Darrell. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person adventure narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expeditions with historical research to solve one of exploration history’s enduring cold cases—the mystery of Hubert Darrell.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Canada; Expeditions & Discoveries; Historical Geography;
© 2025., Penguin Random House,
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Neptune's Fortune : The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire. by Sancton, Julian.;
'Neptune's Fortune' is the riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver - and one mans obsessive quest to find it. From the author of 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth' (a RADD pick).Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal; HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries;
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Neptune's Fortune [text (large print)] : The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire. by Sancton, Julian.;
'Neptune's Fortune' is the riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver - and one mans obsessive quest to find it. From the author of 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal; HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries;
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Titan Unfinished : An Untold Story of Exploration, Innovation, and the OceanGate Tragedy. by Söhnlein, Guillermo A. M.;
'Titan Unfinished' is a firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofounder and friend.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Aviation & Nautical; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics; HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries; HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy; TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines;
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Erebus : the story of a ship / by Palin, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014. The story of a ship begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had more bomb ships than it had enemies. The solid, reinforced hulls of HMS Erebus, and another bomb ship, HMS Terror, made them suitable for discovering what lay at the coldest ends of the earth. In 1839, Erebus was chosen as the flagship of an expedition to penetrate south to explore Antarctica. Under the leadership of the charismatic James Clark Ross, she and HMS Terror sailed further south than anyone had been before. But Antarctica never captured the national imagination; what the British navy needed now was confirmation of its superiority by making the discovery, once and for all, of a route through the North-West Passage. Chosen to lead the mission was Sir John Franklin, at 59 someone many considered too old for such a hazardous journey. Nevertheless, he and his men confidently sailed away down the Thames in April 1845. Provisioned for three winters in the Arctic, Erebus and Terror and the 129 men of the Franklin expedition were seen heading west by two whalers in late July. No one ever saw them again. Over the years there were many attempts to discover what might have happened--and eventually the first bodies were discovered in shallow graves, confirming that it had been the dreadful fate of the explorers to die of hunger and scurvy as they abandoned the ships in the ice. For generations, the mystery of what had happened to the ships endured. Then, on September 9th, 2014, came the almost unbelievable news: HMS Erebus had been discovered thirty feet below the Arctic waters, by a Parks Canada exploration ship. Palin looks at the Erebus story through the different motives of the two expeditions, one scientific and successful, the other nationalistic and disastrous. He examines the past by means of the extensive historical record and travels in the present day to those places where there is still an echo of Erebus herself, from the dockyard where she was built, to Tasmania where the Antarctic voyage began and the Falkland Islands, then on to the Canadian Arctic, to get a sense of what the conditions must have been like for the starving, stumbling sailors as they abandoned their ships to the ice. And of course the story has a future. It lies ten metres down in the waters of Nunavut's Queen Maud Gulf, where many secrets wait to be revealed."--
Subjects: Erebus (Ship); Scientific expeditions;
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The inquisitor's tale : or, The three magical children and their holy dog / by Gidwitz, Adam.; Aly, Hatem.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Friendship; Psychic ability; Dogs; Quests (Expeditions);
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The call of Everest : the history, science, and future of the world's tallest peak / by Anker, Conrad.; Hornbein, Thomas.; National Geographic Society (U.S.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Mountaineering expeditions;
© c2013., National Geographic,
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Everest, Inc. : the renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world / by Cockrell, Will,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have the mountain pretty well figured out. It's an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can occasionally kill, but more so an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination where rich clients pad their egos -- and social media feeds -- while exploiting local Sherpas. There's some truth to these clichés, but they're a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. gets to the heart of the mountain through the definitive story of its greatest invention: the Himalayan guiding industry"--
Subjects: Mountaineering expeditions; Mountaineering guides (Persons); Sherpa (Nepalese people);
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