Books like The Explorers by Scott Ciencin

A covert scientific team ventures into the isolated Area X, a reclaimed landscape rife with anomalies and unknown life. As discoveries deepen, hidden motives and secrets threaten to unravel the expedition and alter humanity’s understanding of nature.

Mowgli, a human child raised by wolves, roams the Indian jungle, forming bonds with animal friends and facing challenges that test his courage and identity.

David Grann’s investigative narrative unravels the mystery of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s 1925 disappearance while he sought the legendary Lost City of Z beneath the Amazon’s dense jungle.

Professor Denison and his dinosaur friend Bix travel to the mysterious island of Dinotopia, where humans and dinosaurs live together, and face challenges while journeying to the forbidden Empire of Chandara.

Douglas Preston chronicles a daring expedition to the Honduran jungle to locate the legendary White City, or Lost City of the Monkey God, using advanced lidar technology to reveal a hidden metropolis and the deadly mysteries it holds.

During a summer holiday in Cornwall, a group of friends and a parrot discover that the Isle of Gloom hides sinister secrets beneath its surface—abandoned copper mines and hidden sea tunnels that spark a perilous adventure.

In Winter in Eden, Harry Harrison expands his dinosaur‑fantasy world, pitting intelligent reptiles against humanity amid a new ice age that threatens extinction and forces a hero to defend mankind.

When the Polongo River that powers Waterfall City suddenly dries up, thirteen‑year‑old Magnolia and her dinosaur companion, Paddlefoot, must find a way to restore its flow before the city faces ruin.

"Michael A. Stackpole is incapable of writing a book that isn't imaginative and intelligent."--Stephen R. Donaldson, author of The Chronicle of Thomas CovenantNew York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole returns with the second book of a groundbreaking trilogy charting exciting new territory in fantasy fiction. Cartomancy follows a group of trailblazing mapmakers with the power to discover new worlds--and shape reality itself....Under the shadow of invasion by a nameless enemy, there seems only one way to save Nalenyr from oblivion. The old heroes who once defended the land must be awakened. And accomplishing that requires a journey across the magical wasteland where they're rumored to be trapped--a wasteland rife with magic and danger.Grandson of the Royal Cartographer, Keles Anturasi finds himself trapped in an enemy nation where his skill may well be his death sentence. His brother Jorim is an ocean away, captive in an altered realm in which he's regarded as a god. And their sister Nirati resides in a paradise that exists between life and death with her insane grandfather and an ancient sorcerer bent on the world's destruction.Now they and their companions must struggle to survive in a world where war on earth mirrors war in heaven. What the gods themselves fear, men must brave. Heroes and mystics they may be, but can any of them survive in a world where things are seldom what they seem: a place where dreams can become reality--and reality can turn into a nightmare....From the Trade Paperback edition.

Wall-voice the half‑dove, freed from enslavement, battles the one‑winged archaeopteryx Maldeor for dominance, aided by friends Ewingerale, Stormac, and Fleydur as they protect their world.

Examines "the saga of the [Richard Francis] Burton and [John Hanning] Speke expedition. To better understand their motivations and ultimate success, Dugard guides readers through the seven vital traits that Burton and Speke, as well as many of history's legendary explorers, called upon to see their impossible journeys through to the end: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perserverence. In doing so, Dugard demonstrates that we are all explorers, and that these traits have a most practical application in everyday life"--Amazon.com.

Explore a hidden subterranean world as Axel and his uncle uncover a mysterious passage, descend into volcanic depths, navigate underground rivers and prehistoric threats, all while racing against danger that could trap them forever.

Ven Polypheme, a young Royal Reporter, is dispatched to the mysterious Gated City to uncover a secret artifact. When a friend is kidnapped and the princess of the Thief Queen emerges, his quest turns deadly.

In an alternate history, Napoleon secures victory at Waterloo using a secret weapon—giant dinosaur soldiers—and a fifteen‑year‑old boy, Willem Verheyen, must stop the emperor’s world‑domination plans.

Will and Sylvia embark on an adventure to the hidden island where dinosaurs and humans coexist.

In the tropical world of Dinotopia, a boy and his Cryptoclidus companion dives among dolphins that rescue shipwreck survivors. When a warrior is aided, the island’s fragile balance hangs in the tide.

A tightrope-walking entertainer and a musician learn to perform in a traveling circus troupe to save passengers from a runaway sky galley during a stormy day in the late Jurassic period, where dinosaurs rule.