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Fearless adventurer, Sir Richard Burton

1969
A biography of Sir Richard Burton, explorer, writer, scholar of Islamic customs, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, and translator of "Arabian Nights.".

Lewis & Clark

and other great adventures
2007
Recreates the epic journeys of some of the most intrepid explorers in history - Lewis & Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, and Ernest Shackleton.

Ernest Shackleton

looking south
2001
The life story of famed Antarctic explorer Shackleton, featuring Frank Hurley's famous photos of the Endurance expedition. Follows him from his first sailing position at the age of 16 to his legendary polar expeditions. Includes candid interviews with family members, scholars and archivists.

The first transatlantic flight

1989
Describes the first flight over the Atlantic from Canada to Great Britain made in l9l9 by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown and the first solo flight from New York to Paris made in l927 by Charles Lindbergh.

What the ice gets

Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916 : a poem
2000

Family album

a personal selection from four generations of Churchills
1982

Newton

a tale of two Isaacs
2002
Humphrey, the young scribe of Isaac Newton, learns lessons about overcoming personal hardship as he works with Newton to prove the scientist's theories on celestial movement.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The adventure of the engineer's thumb

2013
Retold in graphic novel format, a hydraulic engineer's loss of a thumb leads Sherlock Holmes to a band of criminals.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The adventure of Wisteria Lodge

2013
Retold in graphic novel format, Sherlock Holmes investigates a baffling case of a murder involving a foreign tyrant, a governess, and a tale of revenge.

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