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The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000ft into the sea. Crumpled up inside, gazing through the three-inch...
One More Croissant for the Road
'Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it' - DIANA HENRY 'Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing - this book...
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes , rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who...
Voyages To The South Seas
Through revolution and empire, war and bloodshed, France remained fascinated with Australia, sending expeditions of dedicated young men to explore the utopian Paradise of the Pacific and Australia to the...
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers-including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker-this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on...
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three
The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals. This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose...
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is the story of the men...
Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our
"An astonishingly detailed account of the Geodesic Mission.... Gripping, authoritative, and fair."-Washington Post
A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects: From Cook's
A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects covers just over 150 years of polar exploration during which a mysterious southern continent and an elusive northern sea-route became less incognita...
The Nansen Photographs
In the late 19th century, the Norwegian Artic explorer Fridtjof Nansen undertook a pioneering expedition: he wanted to reach the North Pole with the specially designed ship Fram. The Nansen...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and
An extraordinary treasure trove Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
Due North: An expedition through Australia from Tasmania to the Gulf
This is award-winning chef James Viles' photographic journal of his road trip from Tassie to the Top End, from Flinders Island in the Tasman Sea to the Gulf of Carpentaria....
Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward
A thrilling and dangerous adventure though the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh-a mountainous area in to the far north-eastern corner of India-one of the world's least explored regions. Arunachal Pradesh-meaning...
Voyaging the World's Civil Engineering Wonders
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Chasing the Mountain Light: A Life Photographing Wild Places
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Voyaging the World's Civil Engineering Wonders
In this stunningly illustrated, detailed and deliberately entertaining book, John Laverick gives an insight into the exciting world of civil engineering, via fourteen individual case studies. Examples of enduring feats...
The Little Book of Big Explorations: Adventures into the Unknown That Changed Everything
Inspiring accounts of remarkable adventures and scientific discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of our world and tested the limits of human endurance. This is a collection of trailblazing journeys...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains
'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
A Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age
In the feverish, money-making age of railroad barons, political machines, and gold rushes, corruption was the rule, not the exception. Yet the Republican mogul 'Big Alex' McKenzie's audacity was remarkable....
South: The Endurance Expedition
Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the...
A Training School for Elephants
From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition. In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan...
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and
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History comes to life with Peter FitzSimons in the story of Australia's most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton....
A New Voyage Round the World
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A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...
A Woman in the Polar Night
In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She...
Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia
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The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower
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Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America
The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States.'Rob Pope has made his name revelling in...
The Third Pole: My Everest climb to find the truth about Mallory and
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'The best Everest book I've read since Into Thin Air. Synnott's climbing skills take you places few will ever dare to tread, but it's...
We Carry Kevan: Six Friends. Three Countries. No Wheelchair.
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The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain
Author: Gregory HillFormat: Paperback, 155mm x 235mm, 296 pagesPublished: Exisle Publishing, New Zealand, 2024An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train. The...
Remarkable Treks
Author: Colin SalterFormat: Hardback, 285mm x 250mm, 1320g, 224 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks,...
Twitchhiker: How One Man Travelled the World by Twitter
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The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain
Author: Gregory Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train. The journey of The Antipodean...
From Venus to Antarctica: The Life of Dumont d'Urville
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Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
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