Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1985). The De Soto expedition of 1539-1543 was the first major European expedition to penetrate deep into what is now the Southeastern United States. This reprints the 1938 commission report (along with a substantial new introdution) of the attempt, 400 years after he landed in Florida, to determine his route from Florida, through Georgia and eastern highlands (South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Northern Alabama) and on to Louisiana, the Mississippi and more. This covers previous attempts to locate the route of De Soto and Moscoso, as well as information about the original expedition. New introduction by Jeffrey Brain which includes an update of De Soto studies. A title in the Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology series. Several appendices with maps, bibliography, list of participants in the original expedition and more. lxxi, xvi, 400. ISBN: 0-874748933.

New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few know the harrowing story of the Ross Sea party, Shackleton's support group dispatched to the other side of the continent to build a lifeline of food and fuel depots to bear his crossing. "I had not anticipated that the work would present any great difficulties, " Shackleton wrote. Yet everything went tragically wrong when the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, tore free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale, leaving ten men marooned with only the clothes on their backs and few provisions. With little hope of rescue from a world embroiled in World War I, the men decided to accomplish their mission against all odds." Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-670034126.

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover edition of this work in which Walker "blurs the lines between poetry, fiction, and history to tell the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Clarks slave, York, the first African American to traverse the continent. These poems vividly present the intricacies of Yorks personality and form a narrative of his saga - a physical journey from the plantation to the great northwest and a spiritual journey from a humble servant to a man yearning for fulfillment and freedom. York bears the burden of heavy labor as the expedition travels hundreds of miles of waterways in search of a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, York empathizes with the Native Americans he encounters and joins them in mourning his masters' dominion over the land and their misuse of the Earths riches." INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. The third book in the Kentucky Voices series. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-813123224.