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To The Top
The history of climbing Everest is a chronicle of tragic failures and triumphant achievements, featuring some of the world's most celebrated climbers. 'To the Top' tells their stories and creates...
Virgin on Insanity
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Outwardly, 'Britain's most experienced teenage Alpinist' is a brave young mountaineer. But he's not experienced at all, at least not in the way he really wants to be. Behind his...
Himalaya
Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever,...
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest
A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of...
The Moth and the Mountain: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their...
The Snow Leopard
'Matthiessen's book is a triumph that will outlive him. It is a masterpiece' John Hillaby Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature...
Lost Horizon
The gripping adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries. The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft...
Tamarind & the Star of Ishta
From the author of the Costa Award-winning Asha & the Spirit Bird comes a breathtaking, magical adventure ... WINNER OF THE INDIE CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER...
Himalaya
'A battleground of immense geological forces that is a centre of human tectonics as well, with sacred and secular, tradition and technology, all pushing up against each other . ....
To the Greatest Heights
'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to anyone who simply dreams of getting out and doing their own thing'...
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...