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Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains
'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** 'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett,...
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....
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
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
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...
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys: 35 Eye-Witness Accounts of
The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic,...
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...
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 Last Overland: 21,000 km, 23 Countries and One Very Old Land Rover
Author: Alex Bescoby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In 1955, Attenborough, then a young TV producer, was approached by six recent university graduates determined to drive the entire length...
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
Author: Brad Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000ft into...
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...