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A Pocket Essential Short History of Polar Exploration
Nick Rennison's compelling book tells the memorable stories of the men and women who have risked their lives by entering the white wastelands of the Arctic and the Antarctic, from...
Volcanoes: 10 Things You Should Know
Unearth the fascinating fundamentals of volcanoes... In ten short and informative essays, leading volcanologist Dr Rebecca Williams reveals everything you need to know about volcanoes. From the deadliest eruptions of...
I Used to Know That: Geography
Have you forgotten all you ever learned about climate change? What do you really know about GM foods? Can you remember everything you learned at school about earthquakes? This useful...
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion...
Unknown Universe: Discover hidden wonders from deep space unveiled by
Explore the universe with this stunning gift book. A lens into the unexplored and unseen cosmos. A beautiful book showcasing the most stunning images from the first years of the...
In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World
A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed...
The Men Who Measured the Universe
Less than a hundred years ago, astronomers believed that the stars of the Milky Way made up the entire Universe. By the end of the twentieth century, they knew that...
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have
The bestselling and hilarious investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter...
Ice Trek - a Journey to the South Pole
The book titled Ice Trek - a Journey to the South Pole by the author Eric Philips. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
More Brilliant Maps: An All-New Atlas for Curious Minds
Which country doesn't have a national football team? Where is the town with no wifi? Who travelled further on tour: Taylor Swift or Coldplay? Which are the world's noisiest cities?...
Space: Discover fascinating facts about our solar system (All About)
Find out ALL ABOUT space in this fun-filled fact book for kids aged 7+. Launch into outer space and discover the solar system! Packed with fascinating facts, super stats, phenomenal...
Time Travel
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science,...
Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
It's one of the most important and fascinating questions human beings can ponder, and astrobiology is the emerging field of science that tries to answer it. Astronomer Rhodri Evans gives...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Remarkable Voyage of
The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 3000 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size...
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and...
Oliver's Great Big Universe: Volcanoes are Hot!: A Times Children's
'Mind-expanding and hilarious!' Jeff Kinney, author of the bestselling DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series. 'A brainy guide to the barfs, farts and burps of Planet Earth.' The Times The...
Extreme Places: The Most Remote Homes on Earth
Journey around the world to some of the most challenging and remote spots on Earth in this stunningly illustrated book that celebrates human ingenuity, community, and the people who call...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not...
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
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From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos , a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some...
Australia: Evolution of a Continent
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The book titled Australia: Evolution of a Continent by the author H. Struckmeyer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Environmental Geology
An absorbing exploration of the human-planet relationship. Describes how Earth processes influence our lives on a daily basis and how human actions alter the natural functioning of Earth systems. Explains...
Atlas of the World: 15th Edition with Free Wall Map
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The only world atlas updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current geographic information, Oxford's Atlas of the World is the most authoritative resource on the market. The...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pioneering...
Mystery of the Night Watchers
From the bestselling author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of One Hundred Clocks, A.M. Howell, comes a gripping new adventure filled with buried secrets and dark...
Night Sky Almanac 2026: A stargazer's guide
"Both delightful and useful." David Stickland, The Observatory "Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this stunning companion to the night sky." All About Space Follow the progress...
Look Inside Our World
Lift the flaps to take a fun, fact-filled journey around the world. With over 80 flaps to lift, intrepid explorers can discover our world, from the layers that make up...
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First
"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race...
Poetry of the Zodiac: Discover the secrets of each sign through verse
Poetry of the Zodiac is a fun and enlightening collection that takes you on a journey around the different signs of the zodiac wheel. Accompanied with beautiful illustrations, this book...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
Einstein's Universe: The Layman's Guide
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the universe operates by rules so strange and counterintuitive that only a handful of geniuses have...
The Unknown Universe: What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten
On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of...
Vodka & Sandstorms: What is life but one big adventure.
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Adventurer, B.A.S.E jumper, endurance athlete and writer, Luke Richmond is a man on a mission: to cram as much living into his lifetime as humanly possible. As an overweight and...
Zoom: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything
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From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you...
The Discoverers: A History Of Man's Search To Know His World And Himself
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the first human who looked up at the stars and dared to ask why, to the brilliant minds who mapped continents,...
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...
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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THE "EXTRAORDINARY" ( Booklist ) #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER--THE "HARROWING" ( The Washington Post ) SURVIVOR'S MEMOIR YOU WILL NEVER FORGET Aron Ralston, an experienced twenty-seven-year-old outdoorsman, was on a day's...
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New
The first English translation to appear since 1851, this volume contains a fascinating selection from the original Personal Narrative. One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the...
The Ghost Lake
'Remarkable' OBSERVER 'Deeply profound... this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES 'Astounding' ADAM FARRER 'Brave and luminous' SARAH LANGFORD 'Mesmerising' POLLY ATKIN 'Beautifully written' YORKSHIRE POST 'Steadfastly honest' GEOGRAPHICAL A...
The Great Divide
'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ' One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE SEFTON 'I didn't want it to end' SARA...
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
NOW IN PAPERBACK A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the...
Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky
'An exhilarating exploration of how we've been touched by the cosmos across human history' LEWIS DARTNELL 'Combines scientific expertise with vivid storytelling and a childlike wonder that shines on every...
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...
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;...
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change. Trouble with water - increasingly frequent, extreme...
Pressure: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying
A science fiction roleplaying game of bringing law and order to the dark and dangerous corners of the universe. Pressure: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying is a rules-light, story-focused game of...
To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not...
To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not...
Wrinkles In Time
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the 1990s, a team of scientists made one of the most staggering discoveries in...