Expeditions

James Seay Dean is the noted authority on these voyages he provides a sympathetic treatment of life aboard ship in some of the most challenging ci...

An extraordinary tale of derring-do told in a mesmerising new book via fascinating archive pictures and worthy of a Hollywood movie too.  Daily Ma...

Daniel Defoes Incredible Train Journey describes the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric pensioners as they travel on every mile of railway track i...

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pac...

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

Ernest 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...

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersbu...

SS 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...

In 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...

Walter Edward Guinness (18801944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in hi...

Are 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...

'The bible for polar planning' Conrad Dickinson, polar explorer'The perfect resource', Bear GryllsWritten by seasoned adventurer Tim Moss, and with...

No Place to Fall is Victor Saunders follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions in Nepal,...

Over 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. ...

The 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...

Far 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...

Nigel Barley travels to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajan people, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ...

Tales 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...

Shortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 Iain Campbell has been fascinated by mountains for as long as he can remember. In his...

The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the U...

The Last Overland is the story behind the four-part documentary series on All 4 - the extraordinary journey of filmmaker Alex Bescoby and his team ...

In 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...

* NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 *This is a fabulous adventure reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ......