Expeditions

Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.BOOKLISTA man and his chic...

A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of the world''s fourth isl...

He appeared, without a word, in the tents entrance, covered in ice. He looked like anyone would after spending over twenty-four hours in a hurrican...

11 July, 1897. Three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North Pole. They never return. Two days into their journey they make a crash l...

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pol...

In the winter of 1739, Georg Steller received word from Empress Anna of Russia that he was to embark on a secret expedition to the far reaches of S...

When Otto Ecroyd embarked on a voyage to sail a broken boat from Norway to France - and failed - he decided to do what any other hapless adventurer...

Armed with a toilet trowel and a converted Mazda Bongo called Roxy, self-styled 'ordinary' ultrarunner, Gavin Boyter, embarks on his latest long-di...

The first earnest attempt to explore the valley of the upper Yellowstone was made in 1859, by Colonel Raynolds, of the Corps of Engineers. His expe...

Animal Explorers is a wonderful picture book series that will inspire all budding travellers and explorers to follow their dreams. ...

John Wesley Powell''s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated ad...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day has several key strengths making it an admirable contribution to both historical geography and Lewis and ...

Reid Lewis never wanted to be an ordinary French teacher. With the approach of the American Bicentennial, he decided to put his knowledge of French...

William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish nationalist and naturalist who led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (190204) as well as participating...