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1) Annihilation
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Describes the twelfth expedition to Area X, a region cut off from the continent for decades, by a group of intrepid women scientists who try to ignore the high mortality rates of those on the previous eleven missions.
2) Sandstorm
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
A heart-stopping novel of adventure and suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins—the first in his critically acclaimed Sigma Force series
A freak explosion in the British Museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the sands of history. Painter Crowe is an agent for Sigma Force, a covert arm of the Defense Department tasked with keeping dangerous
...Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this riveting, high-octane thriller, an ancient creature is inadvertently released to wreak havoc on the inhabitants of a desolate arctic landscape.
Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone is one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on Earth. For paleoecologist Evan Marshall, an expedition to the Zone offers an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the mounting effects of climate...
Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone is one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on Earth. For paleoecologist Evan Marshall, an expedition to the Zone offers an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the mounting effects of climate...
4) Landfalls
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the historical La Perouse expedition to circumnavigate the globe for scientific research in 1785 follows the exploits and heartbreaks of the explorers, their loved ones, and the natives and Europeans they encounter against a backdrop of the Enlightenment period.
5) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After her husband returns physically changed from a secret mission, a biologist decides to join a dangerous expedition into a zone where the laws of nature have been turned around.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sigma Force Commander Gray Pierce makes paradigm-shifting discoveries about human evolution while investigating shadowy figures depicted in Neanderthal cave paintings.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents new animals discovered during a ten year project of documenting sea life, describing new species of such creatures as jellyfish, octopuses, squids, sea worms, and crabs, found along coral reefs, ocean mountain ranges, and in the dark zone.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an insidious phenomenon spreads from a cursed site in the African jungle called the Kingdom of Bones, scientific warriors Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force must head off a global catastrophe and uncover the shattering secret at the heart of the African continent.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. The Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook’s last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
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