I’ll be giving a talk at the Explorers’ Club about my new book in Boston on 3 May. Social reception at 7pm. Lecture at 8pm. More info here.
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- Book Talk at the Explorer’s Club on 3 May
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- The Search for Planet X
- Book Review: Inventing the American Astronaut
- Some Things I’ve Been Working On
- Greely’s Pendulum, Part 2 of 2
- Greely’s Pendulum, Part 1 of 2
- Beyond the Extreme
- Rwenzori Journal
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Mountaineering
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- Michael Kodas
- National Library of Scotland Mountaineering and Polar Collections
- Petrarch’s Ascent of Mount Ventoux
- The Bentley Beetham Collection
- The Gertrude Bell Archive
- Transcribing Tyndall
- Writings of Isabella Bird
Ocean Exploration
- Deep Sea News
- H.M.S Challenger Library (1873-77)
- Harvard University Expeditions and Discoveries Collection
- NOAA 19th-century Oceanography Books
- South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific
- The U. S. Exploring Expedition (Smithsonian)
- Westward By Sea, 1820-1890 (Library of Congress)
Online Archives
- American Journeys
- Arctic Blue Books Online
- Arctic Photographic Archives Collection
- BibliOdyssey
- British Photography in Central Tibet, 1920-1950 (Pitt Rivers Museum)
- Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages
- Darwin Online
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- Early Canadiana Online
- Freeze Frame
- Fridtjof Nansen Photo Archive
- H.M.S Challenger Library (1873-77)
- Harvard University Expeditions and Discoveries Collection
- Himalayan Database
- Johnson Space Center Digital Image Collection
- Joseph Dalton Hooker Website
- Life Magazine Photo Archive
- Livingstone Online
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- South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific
- Studies in Travel Writing
- The Bentley Beetham Collection
- The First American West, 1750-1820 (Library of Congress)
- The Gertrude Bell Archive
- The U. S. Exploring Expedition (Smithsonian)
- To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880
- Travels in America, 1750-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Westward By Sea, 1820-1890 (Library of Congress)
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- Arctic Blue Books Online
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- Essay on Arctic Exploration by Russell Potter (Google Knol)
- Explorersweb
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