Expeditions
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Snow Widows: Scotts Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind
Katherine MacInnesCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry A welcome contribution to polar studies. Sara Wheeler, Spectator [MacInness] handles ...
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Amour: How the French Talk about Love
Stefania RousselleCurrent price €14.43Original price €18.50'A collection of intimate and heartfelt confessions of what love means, each with a wonderfully expressive colour portrait' Guardian 'Will restore...
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Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World
Kilian JornetCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoira...
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Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell
Paul WilsonCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99Current price €19.91Original price €23.99Save 17% -
A Woman in the Polar Night
Christiane RitterCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50'Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights' Sara Wheeler '[An] astoni...
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The Little Book of Big Explorations: Adventures into the Unknown That Changed Everything
Jheni OsmanCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50This is a book about expedition, adventure, our thirst for knowledge and pushing the limits of human endurance.From the navigational instruments th...
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Clouds from Both Sides: The story of the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre peak
Julie TullisCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99If I could choose a place to die, it would be in the mountains.Clouds from Both Sides is the autobiography of Julie Tullis, the first British woman...
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Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
Clara ParkesCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing indust...
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The Artist Explorers: Painting The New World
John FairleyCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the British and other Europeans to ...
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: Sunday Times Bestseller - The Gripping Story of Finding Shackleton''s Endurance
Mensun BoundCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was fou...
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Adventureholic: Extraordinary Journeys on Seven Continents by Land, Sea and Air
Neil LaughtonCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50More than fifty expeditions across all seven continents by land, sea and air have led adventurer Neil Laughton to some of the most remote places ...
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
Diana PrestonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99From the Los Angeles Times Book Prizewinning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwins journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evo...
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A New Voyage Round the World
William DampierCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumn...
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The Hound from Hanoi
Moire O'SullivanCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Tom is an Asian puppy, destined to be dinner. Instead, an Irish couple rescue him from a street vendor and take him into their care. Together they ...
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No Easy Way: The challenging life of the climbing taxman
Mick FowlerCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by actio...
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: Sunday Times Bestseller - The Gripping Story of Finding Shackleton''s Endurance
Mensun BoundCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's sh...
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The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert, 1875-1876
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €122.39Original price €143.99The British Arctic Expedition of 18756 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geo...
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The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
Brad FoxCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' New York Times Book Review 'Exquisite and shocking... just as any...
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James Fitzjames: Commander of HMS Erebus
William BattersbyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99A riveting detective story Revelation follows revelation. Benedict Allen, author, explorer and TV presenterJames Fitzjames was a hero of the earl...
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Tales of an Unsung Sourdough: The Extraordinary Klondike Adventures of Johnny Lind
Phil LindCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50In the mid-1880s, Johnny Lind, a teenager from Pond Mills, Ontario, struck out for adventure and wealth. After a decade working as a railroader in ...
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Peaks and Bandits: The classic of Norwegian literature
Alf Bonnevie BrynCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set...
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Hearn''s Japan: Writings from a Mystical Country, Volume 3
Lafcadio HearnCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
Marco PoloCurrent price €5.94Original price €6.99'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...'In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid V...
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TWO YEARS BELOW THE HORN: A Personal Memoir of Operation Tabarin
Andrew TaylorCurrent price €39.94Original price €46.99Current price €39.94Original price €46.99Save 15%