Expedition Fiction

Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates. Their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. Now in a brand new series collection, The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told includes many of the very best pirate yarns ever created on history’s most debaucherous scalawags. Anyone who loves a good story full of excitement, adventure, thrills, and laughs will find this collection irresistible.

For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown, and for escape from the mundane. We have always had a primal relationship with the sea - even those who have never been to sea remain fascinated by the seafaring life and tales of salty adventure. Now in a brand–new series collection, The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together such diverse authors as Charles Dickens, Jack London, John Masefield, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, and dozens more.

Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri to sunny California. But progress is slow. Brutal heat, poisoned water, and rough terrain slows the expedition down. Soon they have a choice: continue on the known but grueling trail, or take a shortcut that would cut 350 miles from their journey-but take them through unknown territory.

’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind...

In 1803, the United States made a deal to purchase a big area of land called the Louisiana Territory. Soon after, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were asked to lead an expedition into the American Northwest to explore the new land. After the journey, many stories were told about it—but not all of them are true.

When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid becoming stranded at the bottom of the world, of course!

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy. When the Southern Reach Trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication...

Expedition, the explosive second novel in the Locus series.

The sins of the distant past echo far into the future.

An uneasy peace settles over the strange new world into which the M/S Atlantica has been thrust by the Locus. The cruise ship leads her war-weary fleet on its first, tentative steps beyond simple survival. But an expedition to the mainland changes everything, sparking a chain of events leading to a devastating new conflict.

Seeking to depose his brother Artaxerxes and take his place upon the Persian throne, Cyrus the Younger leads the 10,000 mercenaries on a dangerous campaign deep into the heart of Persia. There, Cyrus is killed and his generals overthrown, leaving a young Xenophon to lead the army on its treacherous journey home. Snowy mountains, wide rivers, violent blizzards, and hostile tribes obstruct their way, testing Xenophon's leadership and his soldiers' perseverance to the extreme.

Astronauts Jim Parker and Michael Murphy, aboard the space shuttle Charger II, were wrapping up a routine mission. Just prior to re-entry, they encountered a mysterious cloud bank in space and were never heard from again. Two years later, a metal box was unearthed at a construction site in St. Louis. In it was a previously unknown, yet apparently authentic, journal of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition: written by astronaut Jim Parker. Did Parker and Murphy alter history, or save it?

Der Laternenwald ist im Begriff zu verenden, und niemand weiß, weshalb. Unerwartet werden die Geschwister Keli und Loyd Lanthorn in eine gefährliche und geheimnisumwobene Forschungsreise verwickelt. Im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit müssen sie sich durch in Nacht gehüllte Landstriche tasten, kilometerhohe Weltmetropolen durchforsten, antike Höhlennetze erforschen und sich durch unendlich weite Wildnis voller Farben, Rätsel und unbekannter Geschöpfe kämpfen.

Africa, 1863. Sir Richard Francis Burton is an explorer, a linguist, a scholar, and the king's agent - or is he a puppet being manipulated by forces he cannot understand? A race to find the source of the Nile! Algernon Charles Swinburne is a famous young flame-haired poet, thrill-seeker, and follower of the Marquis de Sade. Here they are, back to where the adventure began. It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and moves are being made that will lead to a devastating world war.

After a long and exalted military career, General Connor Gates thought he was finally ready to retire. He was wrong. When interstellar probes sent to Earth’s star system report back 40 years earlier than expected, the colonists learn that humans somehow survived the cataclysmic events of the past…but so did the enemy.

Im Jahr 2328 hat die Menschheit unter Perry Rhodans Führung bereits Hunderte von Planeten besiedelt. Der lange Krieg gegen die fremdartigen Blues ist vorüber; die Terraner hoffen nun auf Frieden und einen wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung. Doch zwischen den Sternen der Milchstraße machen sich neue Feinde breit. Sie bedrohen das Vereinte Imperium von Terranern und Arkoniden von innen, indem sie Unruhen schüren und eigene Sternenreiche gründen.

Written as the letters of the five members of Squire Bramble's household sent as they journey around Britain, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is a grouchy, very funny examination of how one story varies depending on who's doing the telling. The tale is centered around the arrival of Mr. Clinker into the otherwise uneventful household, who never speaks and does not even enter the novel until a third of the way through.

Sommer 2036: Mitten in der Wüste Gobi, fern von den Zentren der Zivilisation, entsteht Terrania - Perry Rhodans Zukunftstraum, der Millionen von Menschen fasziniert. Roboter der außerirdischen Arkoniden erbauen eine Stadt, die einmal das Zentrum einer geeinten Menschheit werden soll. Doch alles verändert sich, als ein Notruf die Erde erreicht: Im System der blauen Sonne Wega tobt ein Krieg, quasi in direkter kosmischer Nachbarschaft. Perry Rhodan und eine Gruppe von Begleitern starten zum ersten interstellaren Flug der Menschheit.

John, Bill und Joey wollen im afrikanischen Kongo einen spannenden Urlaub erleben. Sie schließen sich einer Gruppe dschungelerprobter Haudegen an. Die Männer sind auf der Suche nach dem legendären Friedhof der Elefanten. Doch auch ein zweiter Expeditionstrupp unter der Leitung des skrupellosen Stan Hooker ist gestartet und setzt alles daran, den Schatz zuerst zu finden. Ein erbarmungsloser Wettlauf beginnt, bei dem unvorstellbare Gefahren im Dschungel lauern.

Eila, ein wissbegieriges Mädchen im Alter von ca. 9 Jahren, reist in ihren Träumen immer wieder in die Vergangenheit. Sie besucht besondere Orte, die in der Geschichte der Erde von jeher eine wichtige Rolle gespielt haben. An diesen Orten erfährt sie von altem Wissen, das in der heutigen Zeit verloren gegangen is Sie erhält die Aufgabe, dieses Wissen wieder aufleben zu lassen und den Kindern in unserer Welt davon zu erzählen. Als "Botschafterin der Kinder" will sie versuchen, die Welt wieder zu einem liebevolleren Ort zu machen.

Im Jahr 2114: Auf der Erde und den Welten der Terranischen Union leben die Menschen in Frieden und Freiheit. Gemeinsam arbeitet man am Aufbau einer positiven Zukunft. Doch alle wissen: In der fernen Galaxis M 87 lauert eine feindliche Macht, die jederzeit angreifen kann. Ihr Name ist Catron. Mit dem riesigen Raumschiff BASIS brechen Perry Rhodan und eine wagemutige Besatzung dorthin auf. Nach ersten Erkundungsflügen erleben sie eine Überraschung: Sie ­stoßen auf die verschollene SOL und können sie aus einer Dimensionsfalle retten.

He was a legend in his own time. Hated by some, loved by others, respected by all. He fought for his people against all odds. His name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies. Years after his death, his name in WWII was a battle cry for the airborne soldier, a shout of courage, of determination, of victory.