scientific expeditions

Examines the influence nineteenth-century naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt had on American history and the lives and careers of other nineteenth-century explorers.

When a freak accident involving an infallible gambler, a truck full of chickens, and a gas pump leaves easygoing Iple deaf, he decides to travel to Antarctica. While wandering the tundra trying to reconstruct his hearing and memory, he makes a startling discovery below a sheet of ice. There he finds Isabella, a dinosaur and the last DNA repository of a wealth of human and prehuman knowledge. What follows is a mesmerizing detour into our species' fear and wonder at the nature of prediction in this comic yet harrowing novella in Soft Skull's ShortLit series.

Drawing on journals and letters of Darwin and the captain of the Beagle, the author recreates the five-year-long voyage around the world during which Darwin studied firsthand many plants and animals, finding evidence to support the theory of evolution.

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.

When Dryer and Danforth set out to explore the Antarctic continent, they encounter a strange civilization that traveled to Earth from the far regions of space millions of years ago, and now Dryer and Danforth are sent to be Earth's ambassadors to space.

A journalist-photographer describes his adventures on an expedition for ornithological research into the Cutuc?u Mountains of inner Ecuador.

Explores the life, career, and accomplishments of world explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt, the man who introduced the Mayan and Incan cultures to Europe and who brought back 60,000 new plant specimens from the Americas to Europe.

When signs of long-dormant intelligent life are discovered on a sunless planet beyond the edge of the galaxy, an impressive group of intellects are dispatched to reveal its secrets.

Accompanying her father on a wooly mammoth excavation in the Arctic, thirteen-year-old Maya discovers something hidden in the ice that will change her life forever.