Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology.
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If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the “Golden Age” of piracy in the Americas.
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, invo…
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a compl…
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar…
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival
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