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  1. Eiriksdottir
    a tale of dreams and luck ; a novel
    Author: Clark, Joan
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Macmillan Canada, Toronto

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0771590091
    RVK Categories: HQ 5999
    Subjects: Frau; Discoveries in geography; Explorers; Greenlanders; Northmen; Women
    Other subjects: Freydís Eiríksdottir <époque 1014> - Romans; Freydís Eiríksdottir <fl. 1014>
    Scope: 371 S., graph. Darst.
  2. Sir Walter Ralegh and the quest for ElDorado
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Clarion Books, New York, NY

    Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Ralegh" and led many expeditions to the New World. more

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    Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Ralegh" and led many expeditions to the New World.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 039584827X
    RVK Categories: RB 10026
    Subjects: Explorers; Explorers; Suche; Hof; American dream
    Other subjects: Raleigh, Walter <Sir, 1552?-1618>; Raleigh, Walter (1552-1618)
    Scope: XVIII, 222 S., Ill., Kt.
  3. Black Ulysses
    Published: 1982
    Publisher:  Ohio Univ. Press, Athens, Ohio

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0821406604; 0821406809
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Subjects: Blacks; Discoveries in geography; Explorers; Spaniards
    Other subjects: Estevan <d. 1539>; Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar <16th cent>
    Scope: 402 S., Kt.
  4. The memoirs of Christopher Columbus
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Scribner's, New York

    Christopher Columbus has read all of his biographers, and he decides to tell his story as it actually happened in the 15th century. more

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    Christopher Columbus has read all of his biographers, and he decides to tell his story as it actually happened in the 15th century.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0684187698
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Subjects: Discoveries in geography; Explorers
    Other subjects: Columbus, Christopher
    Scope: 569 S., Kt.
  5. Call of the Arctic
    Published: 1960
    Publisher:  Coward-McCann, New York

    Account of Charles Francis Hall's three voyages to the far North as told through the eyes of Adam Burritt, a character created to give perspective on Hall. more

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    Account of Charles Francis Hall's three voyages to the far North as told through the eyes of Adam Burritt, a character created to give perspective on Hall.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: RY 30029
    Subjects: Explorateurs américains - Romans; Discoveries in geography; Explorers
    Other subjects: Hall, Charles Francis <1821-1871> - Biographies; Hall, Charles Francis <1821-1871>
    Scope: 316 S., Kt.
  6. The magnificent adventure
    Published: 1916
    Publisher:  McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: HT 5658
    Series: The works of Emerson Hough
    Subjects: Geschichte; Explorers
    Other subjects: Lewis, Meriwether <1774-1809>
    Scope: 355 S., Ill.
  7. Otto Sverdrups liv
    Author: Kokk, D.
    Published: 1934
    Publisher:  Dybwad, Oslo

    Biography of the Norwegian explorer who accompanied Nansen in crossing Greenland and on Arctic expeditions attempting to reach the North Pole. more

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    Biography of the Norwegian explorer who accompanied Nansen in crossing Greenland and on Arctic expeditions attempting to reach the North Pole.

     

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    Language: Norwegian
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: RB 10032
    Subjects: Explorers
    Other subjects: Sverdrup, Otto Neumann <1854-1930>
    Scope: 145 S., Ill., Kt.
  8. The birthday boys
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, London [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0140172602
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Subjects: English fiction; Explorers; Explorers
    Other subjects: Scott, Robert Falcon <1868-1912>
    Scope: 189 S., Kt.
  9. Sails of Fortune
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Caxton Press, Lincoln

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 087004480X; 9780870044809
    Subjects: FICTION / General; Explorers; Voyages around the world
    Other subjects: Magalhães, Fernão de / d. 1521; Elcano, Juan Sebastián de / ca. 1476-1526; Magalhães, Fernão de (-1521); Elcano, Juan Sebastián de (approximately 1476-1526)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (410 p.)
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    Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Author's Notes; 1 A Knife's Handiwork; 2 Away; 3 The Warning; 4 Fickle Sea; 5 The Unexpected Warrior; 6 Dubious Passage; 7 Tiller and Sail; 8 Easter Night; 9 Chained; 10 Blade of Inquisition; 11 Port San Julian; 12 The Captain-General's Judgment; 13 Bay of Eleven Thousand Virgins; 14 Insatiable Ocean; 15 The First Islands; 16 Humabon's Land; 17 The Fallen; 18 Carvalho's Choices; 19 The Victoria's Captain; 20 Realm of Almanzor; 21 The Valediction; 22 Homebound Winds; 23 A Grievous Toll; 24 The Request; 25 A Worthy Visitor

    EpilogueGlossary of Principal Characters; The Author

    This novel details the harrowing voyage of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet as he attempted to find the rumored water route through the New World to the west. What he and his crew of Basque, Portuguese and Spanish men found was death, hardship and glory

  10. Conversations with the high priest of Coosa
    Published: ©2003
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

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  11. The 16th century Spanish plan to make Australia the new Holy land
    Pedro Fernández de Quirós and his utopian ideas about Terra Australis Incognita
  12. Everett Ruess
    his short life, mysterious death, and astonishing afterlife
    Published: c2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520265424; 9780520949928
    Subjects: Poets, American; Explorers
    Other subjects: Ruess, Everett (b. 1914)
    Scope: 279 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  13. Subverting the empire
    explorers and exploration in Australian fiction
    Author: Genoni, Paul
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Common Ground Publ., Altona, Vic.

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 1863355537; 9781863355537
    RVK Categories: HQ 1040
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Australian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Explorers - Australia; Explorers in literature; Australian fiction; Explorers in literature; Explorers; Erforschung; Roman; Australien <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Astley, Thea; Murnane, Gerald (1939-); Hall, Rodney (1935-); Murnane, Gerald (1939-); Hall, Rodney (1935-); Astley, Thea (1925-2004)
    Scope: 262 S., 21 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254)

  14. Postcolonialism, psychoanalysis and Burton
    power play of empire
    Author: Grant, Ben
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780415450867
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 22
    Subjects: Geschichte; Voyages and travels; Explorers; Travelers' writings, English; Reiseliteratur; Imperialismus <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Burton, Richard Francis Sir (1821-1890); Burton, Richard Francis Sir (1821-1890); Burton, Richard (1925-1984)
    Scope: 209 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Erscheint: Juli 2008

  15. Leyenda negra y leyendas doradas en la conquista de América
    Pedrarias y Balboa
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Marcial Pons Historia, Madrid

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  16. Everett Ruess
    his short life, mysterious death, and astonishing afterlife
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Univ. of California Press, Berkeley [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780520265424
    Subjects: Poets, American; Explorers
    Other subjects: Ruess, Everett (b. 1914)
    Scope: 279 S., [24] Bl., Ill., Kt.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and index

  17. Le dodécaèdre
    ou, douze cadres à géométrie variable
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa [Ont.]

    Dans la bibliothèque de mon père -- Le complot pour cacher l'Amérique -- Le Shéhérazade américain -- Les chroniques de Ténébris -- Le collectionneur -- Pourquoi il n'y a pas de pingouins? -- Kepler en orbite : chapitre premier -- Le polygame -- Jeu... more

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    Dans la bibliothèque de mon père -- Le complot pour cacher l'Amérique -- Le Shéhérazade américain -- Les chroniques de Ténébris -- Le collectionneur -- Pourquoi il n'y a pas de pingouins? -- Kepler en orbite : chapitre premier -- Le polygame -- Jeu de société -- Quelques coupures de presse pour mon article -- La dernière histoire -- Histoire de plagiat -- Postface de l'auteur -- Postface des traductrices et des traducteurs. Un jeune garçon avale les pages de cinq livres dans lesquels croit-il, se trouve le code qui pourrait permettre à un capitaine et à ses acolytes de retracer son père disparu. Afin de sauver sa vie, un explorateur se voit contraint de raconter à la tribu amérindienne qui le retient prisonnier les histoires qu & rsquo;il connaît, qu & rsquo;il crée ou qu & rsquo;il combine. Une femme ravissante se plaît à réinventer sa propre histoire lors des soirées mondaines. Perdu sur les glaces à la dérive dans l & rsqu

     

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  18. The accidental Indies
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [Que.]

    The accidental indies -- a departure -- the nursemaid's tale -- who knows what to expect? -- wishful thinking -- why sailors can believe anything -- christopher columbus -- the accidental indies -- translation -- the return -- the threshold -- the... more

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    The accidental indies -- a departure -- the nursemaid's tale -- who knows what to expect? -- wishful thinking -- why sailors can believe anything -- christopher columbus -- the accidental indies -- translation -- the return -- the threshold -- the letter -- the parade! -- the souvenirs -- notes -- acknowledgments

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780773568174; 0773568174
    Subjects: Discoveries in geography; Explorers; Découvertes géographiques; Discoveries in geography; Explorers; Electronic books; Discoveries in geography; Explorers; FICTION ; Historical; FICTION ; General; Fiction; Biographical fiction
    Other subjects: Columbus, Christopher; Colomb, Christophe ca 1451-1506; Columbus, Christopher; Colomb, Christophe ca 1451-1506; Columbus, Christopher
    Scope: Online Ressource (102 p.), ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99). - Description based on print version record

  19. Everett Ruess
    his short life, mysterious death, and astonishing afterlife
    Published: c2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Cover; Contents; I: Davis Gulch; II: Wanderers; III: The Legacy: 1859-1913; IV: Growing Up: 1914-1929; V: On the Road: 1930; VI: Lan Rameau: 1931; VII: The Misfit: 1932; VIII: The Bohemian: 1933; IX: Vanished: 1934; X: The Search: 1935; XI: Healing:... more

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    Cover; Contents; I: Davis Gulch; II: Wanderers; III: The Legacy: 1859-1913; IV: Growing Up: 1914-1929; V: On the Road: 1930; VI: Lan Rameau: 1931; VII: The Misfit: 1932; VIII: The Bohemian: 1933; IX: Vanished: 1934; X: The Search: 1935; XI: Healing: 1936-2008; XII: Resurrection: 2009; Appendix A: Wilderness Song; Appendix B: Father and Son Dialogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the California coast, along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and into the deserts of the Southwest. In the first probing biography of Everett Ruess, accl

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520949928; 0520949927
    Subjects: Poets, American; Explorers; Explorers; Poets, American; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; POETRY ; American ; General; HISTORY ; United States ; State & Local ; West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); Explorers; Poets, American; Biographies
    Other subjects: Ruess, Everett 1914-; Ruess, Everett (1914-1934); Ruess, Everett
    Scope: Online Ressource (279 p., [22] p. of plates), ill., maps.
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  20. Sails of Fortune
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Caxton Press, Lincoln

    This novel details the harrowing voyage of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet as he attempted to find the rumored water route through the New World to the west. What he and his crew of Basque, Portuguese and Spanish men found was death, hardship and glory more

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    This novel details the harrowing voyage of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet as he attempted to find the rumored water route through the New World to the west. What he and his crew of Basque, Portuguese and Spanish men found was death, hardship and glory

     

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  21. Everett Ruess
    His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife
    Published: [2011]; ©2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty... more

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    Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the California coast, along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and into the deserts of the Southwest. In the first probing biography of Everett Ruess, acclaimed environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin goes beyond the myth to reveal the realities of Ruess’s short life and mysterious death and finds in the artist’s astonishing afterlife a lonely hero who persevered

     

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  22. A discovery of strangers
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Knopf, Toronto [u.a.]

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    1 A 267776
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0394280504
    RVK Categories: HQ 5999
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: New Canadian Library
    Subjects: British; Discoveries in geography; Explorers
    Other subjects: Franklin, John (1786-1847)
    Scope: 317 S., Kt.
  23. Francisco Pizarro
    el conquistador de fabuloso Perú
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Anaya, Madrid

    Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim
    91 : 18008
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    Language: Spanish
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    ISBN: 8420730661
    Series: Biblioteca iberoamericana ; 21
    Subjects: Explorers; Explorers; Governors
    Other subjects: Pizarro, Francisco (approximately 1475-1541)
    Scope: 126 S. : Ill
  24. The cartographic eye
    how explorers saw Australia
    Author: Ryan, Simon
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    97 A 4775
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    A 1997/7672
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    TC/920/367
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    GGR:SL:1000:Rya::1996
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    DUD 4680-027 7
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 052157112X; 0521577918
    Subjects: Explorers; Australia; Australia
    Scope: XI, 235 S, Ill, 24 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 219 - 231

  25. To the ends of the earth
    the truth behind the glory of Polar exploration
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York

    "This fascinating social history of polar expeditions examines the cultural trends that produced these daring, even reckless journeys" -- Trailing clouds of glory -- Hail the conquered hero! -- By nature possessed -- La belle dame sans merci --... more

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    "This fascinating social history of polar expeditions examines the cultural trends that produced these daring, even reckless journeys" -- Trailing clouds of glory -- Hail the conquered hero! -- By nature possessed -- La belle dame sans merci -- Keeping the brutes at bay -- Dog eat dog, man eat dog, man eat man -- More noble than the "greed for discovery" -- "Down with science, sentiment and the fair sex" -- No man is an island -- "We have met the enemy, and he is us" -- In the end was the word -- Printing the legend

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9781633884113
    Subjects: Explorers
    Scope: 343 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index