Expeditions
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No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845
E. C. ColemanCurrent price €24.89Original price €29.99Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships th...
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World''s Greatest Scientific Expedition
Stephen BownCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersbu...
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The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943): Whaler, Sealer and Polar Exploration Ship
Michael C. TarverCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50SS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this m...
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Kayak The Kwanza
Oscar ScafidiCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50In June 2016, Oscar Scafidi and Alfy Weston set out to complete the first ever source-to-sea expedition along Angolas longest river, the Kwanza. Pa...
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''Some Friends Came to See Us'': Lord Moyne''s 1936 Expedition to the Asmat
Nick StanleyCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Walter Edward Guinness (18801944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in hi...
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Walks on the Wild Side
John PakenhamCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Are you ready to take a walk on the seriously wild side? In the early 1980s, John Pakenham walked a total of 1,500 miles, with a series of compa...
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How To Get To The North Pole: and Other Iconic Adventures
Tim MossCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'The bible for polar planning' Conrad Dickinson, polar explorer'The perfect resource', Bear GryllsWritten by seasoned adventurer Tim Moss, and with...
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No Place To Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya
Victor SaundersCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99No Place to Fall is Victor Saunders follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions in Nepal,...
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Climb to the Lost World: Through dense Guyanian rainforest to the towering summit of Mount Roraima
Hamish MacInnesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Over 9,000 feet up on the top of Mount Roraima is a twenty-five mile square plateau, at the point where Guyanas border meets Venezuela and Brazil. ...
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Painted Mountains: First ascents in the Indian Himalaya
Stephen VenablesCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest accou...
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Mingming II & the Impossible Voyage
Roger D. TaylorCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Far to the north of Russia, across the cold waters of the Barents Sea, lies the desolate archipelago known as Franz Josef Land. Hidden away still f...
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Not a Hazardous Sport: Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia
Nigel BarleyCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Nigel Barley travels to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajan people, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ...
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The Pull of the River: A Journey into the Wild and Watery Heart of Britain
Matt GawCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Tales of escape and adventure on Britain''s waterwaysIn The Pull of the River two foolhardy explorers do what we would all love to do: they turn th...
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From the Lion''s Mouth: A Journey Along the Indus
Iain CampbellCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Shortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 Iain Campbell has been fascinated by mountains for as long as he can remember. In his...
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Becoming Forrest: One man''s epic run across America
Rob PopeCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the U...
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The Last Overland: Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition (with a foreword by Tim Slessor)
Alex BescobyCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The Last Overland is the story behind the four-part documentary series on All 4 - the extraordinary journey of filmmaker Alex Bescoby and his team ...
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Voyage of the Adventure: Retracing the Donelson Party''s Journey to the Founding of Nashville
John GuiderCurrent price €31.59Original price €40.50In the harsh winter of 1779, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a 40'' flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Th...
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The Last Overland: Singapore to London: The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition (with a foreword by Tim Slessor)
Alex BescobyCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50* NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 *This is a fabulous adventure reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ......
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The Chomolungma Diaries: Climbing Mount Everest with a Commercial Expedition
Mark HorrellCurrent price €9.95Original price €11.99Current price €9.95Original price €11.99Save 17% -
Touch the Sky
Tess BurrowsCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Touch the Sky recounts the experience of Tess Burrows climb to the summit of Africas highest mountain. This gutsy and compassionate grandmother has...
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Along the Divide: Walking the Wild Spine of Scotland
Chris TownsendCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99In Along the Divide, Chris Townsend embarks on a 700-mile walk along the spine of Scotland, the line of high ground where fallen rain runs either w...
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Brazil That Never Was
A. J. LeesCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99As a boy growing up near Liverpool in the 1950s, Andrew Lees would visit the docks with his father to watch the ships from Brazil unload their exot...
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Venetian Navigators: The Mystery of the Voyages of the Zen Brothers
Andrea di RobilantCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and...
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Arabia: A Journey Through The Heart of the Middle East
Levison WoodCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Following in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is an insight into Levison Wood's most complex and daring expedition ...
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South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton''s Last Expedition 1914-1917
Ernest Henry ShackletonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Experience in the polar explorers own words, Ernest Shackletons thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was di...
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Eyewitness Accounts With Scott in the Antarctic
Herbert PontingCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedit...
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Eldorado and the Quest for Fortune and Glory in South America
Peter O. KochCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50This book traces the origin of the legend of El Dorado and the various expeditions that set out to locate that mysterious land of untold wealth ...
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A Delicious Country: Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson''s 1700 Expedition
Scott HulerCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown...
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Arctic Mirage: The 1913-1920 Expedition in Search of Crocker Land
Winton U. SolbergCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the Unive...
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The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell''s 1869 River Journey
Don LagoCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adv...
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In the Chasms of Water, Stone, and Light: Passages through the Grand Canyon
John AnnerinoCurrent price €26.34Original price €30.99Photos, historical tales, and literary quotes share the secrets of Earth's most spectacular canyon system From the supernal peaks of sacred te...
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The Nobility of Wilderness: Travels in Algeria
Tom SheppardCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society wrote of the author, in his book Sahara: 'Tom Sheppard, doyen of the desert.' '...a pass...
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The Boiling River
Andres RuzoCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99Part of the TED series: The Boiling River This fantastical tale - which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the great age o...
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Extreme Eiger: Triumph and Tragedy on the North Face
Leni GillmanCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The North Face of the Eiger was long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had cost the lives of numerous mountaineers. ...
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Peaks and Bandits: The classic of Norwegian literature
Alf Bonnevie BrynCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99In 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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Roald Amundsen
Tor Bomann-LarsenCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99On 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole, just over a month be...
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From Ice Floes to Battlefields: Scotts Antarctics in the First World War
Anne StrathieCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scot...
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Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse: A Forgotten Hero of Shackleton''s Endurance Expedition
Stephen HaddelseyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Much has been written on Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton. This is the story of the Endurance expedition's other hero, Joseph Russell Stenhous...
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The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
Sir Walter RaleighCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Current price €15.29Original price €16.99Save 10% -
The Next Horizon: From the Eiger to the South Face of Annapurna
Sir Chris BoningtonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequ...
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Brazil and Argentina: From Jungle to Icebergs
Susan RogersCurrent price €9.89Original price €10.99Current price €9.89Original price €10.99Save 10% -
Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia
James BellCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, a...
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No Passport: A Discovery of Canada
Joyce MarshallCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99A classic of Canadian travel literature, No Passport is Quebecois novelist and broadcaster Eugène Cloutier's account of his discovery of his countr...
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Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott''s Marvel
Anne StrathieCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Henry Birdie Bowers realised his lifes ambition when he was selected for Captain Scotts Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his...
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Everest Revealed: The Private Diaries and Sketches of Edward Norton, 1922-24
Christopher NortonCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50E.F. (Teddy) Norton was a member of the 1922 Everest expedition and the leader of the 1924 attempt on the mountain. In 1922 he reached a then recor...
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Captain Scott''s Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans
Isobel WilliamsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captains Scotts giant worker and his invaluable assistant. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditio...
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Shackleton''s Dream: Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica
Stephen HaddelseyCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance, befo...
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