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Survivor: The Autobiography
This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th...
Up: My Life's Journey to the Top of Everest
My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A...
Darwin's Armada: How four voyagers to Australasia won the battle for
How Four Voyages to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged...
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Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and
An extraordinary treasure trove Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....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...
Chasing the Mountain Light: A Life Photographing Wild Places
This highly regarded outdoor and landscape photographer shares his most stunning black-and-white images from around the globe, and his adventures in search of them. Childhood adventures in Australia inspired David...
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
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...
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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Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
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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,...
In Praise of Savagery
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Twitchhiker: How One Man Travelled the World by Twitter
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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...
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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