Expeditions

The Polar Book created as a facsimile of a now very scarce publication for the British Polar Exhibition of 1930 that celebrated the history of Pola...

My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain o...

Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it DIANA HENRY Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophi...

Spitsbergen is the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago which is situated between the Greenland and Barents Seas, approximately 600 miles fro...

This is the true story of a record-breaking polar journey by two young men in Spring 2008. The author & his fellow explorer spent four long mon...

Portugal is not all that far away, or exotic, or dangerous, but it felt like a huge stretch for me to leave my partner, family, job and home and ju...

In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North W...

In 1847 Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) embarked on an expedition to Sikkim in the eastern Himalaya, a region where he would discover a huge numbe...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'The best Everest book I've read since Into Thin Air. Synnott's climbing skills take you places few will...

Scotland as I saw it on this journey is vibrant and exciting and very much alive, a tartan patchwork of the past, present and future of the country...

The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the worlds oceans the ultimate frontier of our planet. A feat...

What would it feel like to be out there alone in that empty vastness? Just before midnight on 24 November 2011, Felicity is left completely alone o...

Footsteps in the Snow recounts a life shaped and dominated by Antarctica, a multi-facetted account of a life dedicated to Antarctic science, policy...

This richly illustrated book takes a different angle on Robert E. Pearys North Pole expedition. By shifting the focus away from the unanswerable qu...

In the feverish, money-making age of railroad barons, political machines, and gold rushes, corruption was the rule, not the exception. Yet the Repu...

Kevan is just one of the guys. It's impossible to know him and not become a little more excited about life. He is an inspiring man permeated by joy...

Novelist, traveller, scriptwriter, photographer: Jeremy Page is a man with a broad view of wide horizons. But on approaching middle age, he experie...