Bybliotech Discovery imprint: 11 books
The Canada Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“The Canada Exploration Anthology”, features texts from Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Rene-Robert Chevalier de la Salle, Samuel Hearne, Alexander MacKenzie, David Thompson, John Rae. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 7 books...
The United States Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of the Continental United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume....
The North West Passage Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Explorers of the North-West Passage
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“The Northwest Passage Exploration Anthology”, features the first-hand personal accounts of explorers: Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, John Rae, John Franklin, Thomas Simpson, Peter Warren Dease, William Edward Parry and Richard Hakluyt.
This book charts the full history of the exploration...
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
"The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is the epic tale of the disastrous "Winter expedition" of the Author and his two companions- Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson - all members of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole, who attempted a scientific...
The North Pole
It's Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Club
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
"The North Pole" is Capt. Robert E. Peary's personal account of his expedition to attempt to be the first Man to reach the Geographic North Pole. Peary achieved his dream in 1909 (although doubt has subsequently been raised as to whether he actually arrived at the Pole itself, or only...
by Owen Chase
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Of the 21 men who entered the 3 flimsy whale-boats, only...
by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Bernal Diaz was an eyewitness to one of history's most remarkable events - the conquest of the Empire of the Aztecs, and the defeat of their Emperor Montezuma. The indomitable Diaz delivers his chronicle first-hand, vividly describing the ruthless battles, the brilliant Machiavellian strategies of...
The Pirates of Panama
Or The Buccaneers of America, A True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Also titled "The Buccaneers of America", this thrilling text is the best genuinely first-hand account of piracy to exist. Alexandre Exquemelin was on board the flagship of Henry Morgan, one of the most notorious pirates ever to sail. Exquemelin bore witness to some of the most extraordinary...
The Roald Amundsen Anthology
'The North West Passage' and, 'The South Pole'
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013
The Roald Amundsen Anthology: “The Gjoa Expedition 1903-07”, and “The South Pole, an Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram 1910-1912”.
In this Anthology are combined the accounts of both of Amundsen’s two most momentous journeys of exploration; the first successful...
The Dispatches of Hernan Cortes the Conqueror of Mexico
Addressed to the Emperor Charles V. Written During the Conquest, and Containing a Narrative of Events
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The Dispatches of Hernan Cortes, or the 'Cartas de Relacion', are several extraordinary documents written by the great Conquistador himself, explaining his actions in the remarkable conquest of Mexico directly to the Emperor Charles V of Spain. Not since Julius Caesar documented his own Conquest...
by William H. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The story of the fall of the Mexica/Aztec civilisation in Mexico is one of the most astonishing episodes ever to occur in history; and in the skilful hands of William H. Prescott, one of America's greatest historians, it takes on a thrilling new dimension. Richly filled with detail, Prescott intricately...