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The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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Author: Iain Sinclair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and...
Aphrodite & the Others

Aphrodite & the Others

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Saluting the Amaryllis

Saluting the Amaryllis

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Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea

Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea

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Author: The RNLI Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together...
The End of the Road: A journey around Britain in search of the dead

The End of the Road: A journey around Britain in search of the dead

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Author: Jack Cooke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around...
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages)

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Tim Butcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind A compulsively readable...
Himalaya: A Human History

Himalaya: A Human History

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Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

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Author: Tom Nancollas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, now in...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent

Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent

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Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the...
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

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Author: Robert Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through...
The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

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Author: Roman Dial Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Gripping." -New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) * "A page-turner that will rip your heart out."...
To the Edges of the Earth, 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

To the Edges of the Earth, 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

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Author, Edward J. Larson Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 352 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside)...
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration Into the Heart of Our Planet

Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration Into the Heart of Our Planet

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Author: Dr David Whitehouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

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Author: Brett Archibald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone. --The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a...
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie 'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time

London: A Travel Guide Through Time

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Author: Dr Matthew Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

$32.99$10.00
Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

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Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

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Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last...
The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

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Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
Forest: Walking among trees

Forest: Walking among trees

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Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...
Freedom

Freedom

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Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...
Things I Learned from Falling

Things I Learned from Falling

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Author: Claire Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made...
The Italians

The Italians

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Author: John Hooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A deeply knowledgeable and enjoyable account of what makes the Italians tick Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of THE BROKEN ROAD. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick...
In A Time Of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt

In A Time Of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt

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Author: Emma Sky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major...
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. The thrilling...
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure and Swimming Iguana's in Charles Darwin's South America

Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure and Swimming Iguana's in Charles Darwin's South America

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Author: Eric Simons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed 'southernmost city in the world,' at the end of a long trip designed...