Expeditions
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The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
Rebecca LoweCurrent price €18.80Original price €23.50One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee cris...
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The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas
Scott EllsworthCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' T...
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The Old Man and the Sea: A True Story of Crossing the Atlantic by Raft
Anthony SmithCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Octogenarian Anthony Smith's journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible stor...
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To the Far North: Diary of a Russian World Traveler
Ivan Nikolaevich AkifëvCurrent price €107.89Original price €129.99This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition ...
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To the Far North: Diary of a Russian World Traveler
Ivan Nikolaevich AkifëvCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition ...
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Walk of Ages: A Generational Journey from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
Jim AndersenCurrent price €28.21Original price €33.99Following in her father's footsteps, Withanee Andersen begins the expedition of a lifetime when she and her comrades embark on a trek from Mt. Whit...
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Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition
Mark WalczynskiCurrent price €21.73Original price €27.50Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from an...
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Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Robert MacklinCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy ...
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh''s Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Dan HamptonCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50OUTSTANDING...RIVETING.--Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW) * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history* comes a masterful account o...
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A Woman in the Polar Night
Christiane RitterCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Conjures the rasp of the skin runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights... Sara Wheeler, author of T...
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Everest 24: New Views on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition
Eugene RaeCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50In 1924, the British Mount Everest Expedition led by George Mallory set out to reach the summit of the worlds highest peak. In 2024, documentaries ...
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Canterbury And Other Tales: Treading Ancient Trails
Kim LetsonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Treading Ancient Trails Seeking solace after the death of her husband, Kim Letson discovers a passion for long- distance walking. Through historic...
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Pomegranates at 4800 Metres: Journeying at Home and Away
Kim LetsonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Journeying at Home and Away Pomegranates at 4800 Metres is a vibrant tapestry woven with themes of love, courage and generosity. Kim Letsons husb...
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Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer
Michael SmithCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99In 1922 a journalist commented on British tenacity to General Bruce, leader of the British Everest Expedition. Bruce replied with a single word: 'S...
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Shackleton''s Boat Journey
FA WorsleyCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99'We were twenty-eight men facing winter on a bleak barren beach of Elephant Island - there was a possibility of a fatal shortage of food - there wa...
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In Search of the Last Continent: Australia and Early Antarctic Exploration
Andrew McConvilleCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99For 70 years powerful countries despatched expeditions to explore the south polar regions. By 1843 they had seen enough to realise that this most r...
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The Edge of Cymru
Julie BrominicksCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50In the course of a year Julie Brominicks walked around the edge of Wales, having left her job in environmental education at the Centre for Alternat...
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
Buddy LevyCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered t...
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historians Journey from Shetland to the Channel
David GangeCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE This is the bo...
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The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete
Christopher SomervilleCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he t...
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Crossing The Sands: The Sahara Desert Track to Timbuktu
Ariane Audouin-DubreuilCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99On December 17, 1922, Andre Citroen sent an expedition of Citroen half tracks or autochenilles to follow the camel tracks across the Sahara desert ...
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Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica
James C. HamiltonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Two hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook, during his extraordinary voyages of navigation and maritime exploration, searched for Antarctic...
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Life Lessons from Explorers: Learn how to weather life''s storms from history''s greatest explorers
Felicity AstonCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possibl...
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The Little Book of Wanderlust: Travel quips & quotes for lifes big adventures
WanderlustCurrent price €9.34Original price €10.99The ultimate travel companion for voracious voyagers.Do you yearn for a life off the beaten track? Brought to you by Wanderlust, the original trave...
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