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Geography. Anthropology. Recreation.
vintage map of the Western Hemisphere Geography (General). Atlases. Maps.
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Geographers.
History of Discoveries, Explorations, and Travel.
Special Voyages and Travels.
Seafaring Life, Ocean Travel, Etc.
Arctic and Antarctic Regions.

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Richard HakluytRichard Hakluyt was the author of The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, consisting of eyewitness accounts and other records of more than 200 voyages, in 1589. These stories stirred up interest in navigation and colonization, expecially in the New World.
John LedyardJohn Ledyard wrote the first great travel story by an American to be published in the United States. In 1786-1788 he walked alone from Germany to eastern Siberia. He died soon after getting permission to undertake an expedition to explore the source of the Niger River in Africa.
The Voyage of the ChallengerThe Voyage of the Challenger In May of 1876 a ship sailed into the harbor of Spithead, England, home from a voyage of three and a half years and 65,890 miles over the seven seas. Her voyage was the first to undertake a scientific exploration of the sea bottom. By the time she returned home she had sounded the depths of every ocean except the Arctic.
Richard Henry DanaRichard Henry Dana was the author of Two Years Before the Mast (1841), one of America's most famous accounts of life at sea. Based on his personal diary, the book describes the lives of sailors in the ports, and a detailed account of life on the California coast a decade before the Gold Rush. He also wrote a handbook that included a section of maritime law, and a book about a trip he took to Cuba.
Matthew Alexander HensonMatthew Alexander Henson became the first man to reach the North Pole by "land" on April 6, 1909, a full 45 minutes before the leader of the expedition, Robert Peary.
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