Expeditions

A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnso...

From the earliest migrations to the dawn of space tourism, experience the excitement of travel throughout the ages in this gloriously illustrated b...

''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 his writi...

''Gripping pulse-racing adventure by a true legend. Louis Rudd''s courage and determination is admirable'' - Andy McNab_____________________In 2018...

Memories of Chinatown is a Singapore classic and is now republished with a new visual interpretation by watercolour artist Graham Byfield. Both a m...

Edmund Hillary - A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tra...

When seven weekend adventurers from either side of the Atlantic meet in Geneva, the trip that follows turns into the most memorable journey... P...

A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing indu...

Captain Scotts expedition to the Antarctic, the most famous story of exploration in the world, played out on the great ice stage in the south. Oria...

Esprit de Battuta: Alone Across Africa on a Bicycle is the story of one womans exciting travel adventure through Africa before mobile phones and b...

For acclaimed Australian chef Aaron Turner, hot chicken isnt just food  its salvation in crispy, fried and devilishly spicy form. In The Hot Chicke...

'One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.' The Sunday Times Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both....

The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains fir...

'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - Across this blank space was written one challenging word, Unexplored' In 193...

If you had something really important to shout about, you could do worse than to climb to the point furthest from the centre of the Earth - some 2,...

The electrifying true story of a race against time to solve the greatest mystery of polar exploration. Facing some of the most hostile terrain on t...