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Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
' John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element...
The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...
The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of Extraterrestrial Treasures and
Planet Earth is under attack: every day, millions of meteoroids plummet through our atmosphere. Fortunately, the majority are minuscule - too small to survive the scouring of Earth's atmosphere, let...
Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in...
The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...
Antarctica: First Impressions, 1773-1930
These traveller's tales have one thing in common: they are all true. Antarctica is the driest continent, the windiest, the highest continent on earth. And the least known. This anthology...
In the Footsteps of Scott
The book titled In the Footsteps of Scott by the author Roger Mear. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Christopher Columbus: Master of the Atlantic
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The book titled Christopher Columbus: Master of the Atlantic by the author Dr. David A. Thomas, QC. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Exploring the Polar Regions
Begins with the three expeditions of John Franklin, England's most honored and respected Arctic explorer, and covers exploration and discovery of the Arctic and Antarctic regions through the present.
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure -...
The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk By a Whale
The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick's monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship...
The Life of Matthew Flinders
'In Estensen, Flinders has at last found his Boswell.' Paul Brunton, The Weekend Australian Estensen's book is a work of painstaking scholarship, worn lightly it will be an enduring contribution...
Discovery of Egypt
Using his extraordinary "Journeys in Upper and Lower Egypt", published in 1802, as the basis for a vivid and moving account of the discovery of ancient Egypt, the author tells...
The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
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The book titled The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by the author Fawn M. Brodie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Captain Cook
An intimate biography of one of histories greatest explorers. A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives. Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two
A Times History Book of the Year 2022A TLS Book of the Year 2022'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical...
Marathon Man: My Life, My Father's Stroke and Running 35 Marathons in
MARATHON MAN is an uplifting story of an extraordinary achievement - all the more inspiring given that the author was an inexperienced long-distance runner and only 20 when embarking on...
Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica
Two hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook, during his extraordinary voyages of navigation and maritime exploration, searched for Antarctica the Unknown Southern Continent. During parts of his three...
Solo
In May 2001, the country was gripped by the fate of arctic explorer Pen Hadow, stranded with diminishing supplies on the ice cap after successfully reaching the Pole. Hadow was...
The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza De Vaca: His Account of the
Of the 300 Spanish explorers who set out to discover and conquer the wilderness of North America, only four returned - after covering about 6,000 miles in the course of...
The Shape of the World: Mapping and Discovery of the Earth
The book titled The Shape of the World: Mapping and Discovery of the Earth by the author Simon Berthon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying...
The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of
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Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate...
History of World Exploration
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The book titled History of World Exploration by the author Royal Geographical Society. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
To the Ends of the Earth: The History of Polar Exploration
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The history of individual Polar expeditions has been told many times, but usually only as personal accounts of individual adventures. This misses the overall context of polar exploration - why...
The "Times" Picture Collection: Explorers
From Scott's ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, through successive attempts on Everest from Shipton in the 1930s through to Hillary's successful climb in 1953, and on through the conquest of...
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
'Holds up a mirror to a pioneering explorer of the deep seas' Financial Times 'Exquisite . . . full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries - and unusual scientists' New...
Honeymoons
Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming. Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence,...
In The Footsteps Of Adam
Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a...
Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century
Black Livingstone is the first book to chronicle the remarkable life of William Henry Sheppard. As a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary in 1890, Sheppard departed for what was then the...
Pacific Empires
A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955....
Resolution: The Story of Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discovery
A year and a day after James Cook arrived back on English soil having claimed Australia and New Zealand for the British crown, he set sail again on a three-year...
The Columbus Venture
The voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 is one of the most significant journeys ever made by man. It led directly to the colonization of America by Europeans, something that...
Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic
The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania looks back on his life behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of...
Wild Places: Volume 6
Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the Inspired Traveller's Guide series. We humans don't just love wild places. We need them;...
VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK
Captain James Cook is probably the most famous explorer of all time, and not without good reason. The three Pacific voyages of discovery he made between 1768 and 1779 set...
Summit, The
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On January 4, 2011 Eric Alexander appeared on the internationally broadcast television program, The 700 Club. The 700 Club provided Eric the opportunity to greatly extend his message of teamwork,...
Exploration of Africa, The:From Cairo to the Cape: From Cairo to the
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"Dr Livingstone, I presume..." Everyone knows Stanley's famous words. But what of the other great explorers of the mysterious interior of Africa? Burton, Speke, Grant, Baker, Kingsley: in the space...
On Austral Shores: A Modern Traveller's Guide to the European
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'On Austral Shores' tells in detail for the first time the story of the European exploration of the 4000 kilometre coast of Victoria and New South Wales.
Great Explorers
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The book titled Great Explorers by the author Roderic Owen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme*** Out of Print
Far more complete than competing narratives of Antarctic exploration, this travel adventure documents dozens of voyages, from the earliest days of long-distance sea travel through the rapacious exploitation of seal...
This Earthly Globe: 'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan 'Marries the intrigue of Europe's most powerful royal courts with the globe-trotting thrill of adventure and discovery' Sunday Telegraph, 5* review DURING THE...
The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic
In the 1830s, much of the world was still unexplored territory to European and American travelers, and the forbidding Antarctic region represented perhaps the ultimate mystery. Was there, in fact,...
A Captain's First Rate Tragedy: Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions
The great tragedy that befell the Scott team could have been averted if they could have trudged just 11 more miles. The Norwegian Trygge Gran found their frozen bod ies...