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    Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

    Stephen R Bown

    Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to…

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    White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic

    Stephen Bown

    As T. E. Lawrence did for the Arab world and Richard Burton did for the heart of Africa, Knud Rasmussen opened the landscape and culture of the Arctic. Stephen Bown…

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    Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition

    Stephen Bown

    The story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told

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    Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

    Stephen Bown

    The story of how three individuals conquered the plague of the sea

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    Madness, Betrayal and the Lash

    Stephen Bown

    A revealing and fresh take on the extraordinary story of Captain Vancouver, one of history’s greatest explorers. From 1791 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as captain of a…

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    The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen

    Stephen Bown

    The first full biography in many years of the greatest polar explorer of all time: the conqueror of both the South and North poles as well as the Northwest and…

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    The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire

    Stephen Bown

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    A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s origins.

    The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern…

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    Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900

    Stephen R Bown

    Originally published: Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009.

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    Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Miracle of the Age of Sail

    Stephen R Bown,Stephen R Brown

    In this best-selling book, Stephen R. Bown tells of how a cure was found for scurvy and, in doing so, spins a spellbinding tale of ships, sailors, and exploration.

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    Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians

    Eric E. Bowne,Steven C. Hahn,David J. Hally

    There has been a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This book looks at the shift, which is in…

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