Expeditions
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The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
Rebecca LoweCurrent price €18.80Original price €23.50One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee cris...
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The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas
Scott EllsworthCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' T...
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The Old Man and the Sea: A True Story of Crossing the Atlantic by Raft
Anthony SmithCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Octogenarian Anthony Smith's journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible stor...
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To the Far North: Diary of a Russian World Traveler
Ivan Nikolaevich AkifëvCurrent price €107.89Original price €129.99This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition ...
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To the Far North: Diary of a Russian World Traveler
Ivan Nikolaevich AkifëvCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition ...
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Walk of Ages: A Generational Journey from Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
Jim AndersenCurrent price €28.21Original price €33.99Following in her father's footsteps, Withanee Andersen begins the expedition of a lifetime when she and her comrades embark on a trek from Mt. Whit...
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Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition
Mark WalczynskiCurrent price €21.73Original price €27.50Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from an...
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Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Robert MacklinCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy ...
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The Flight: Charles Lindbergh''s Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Dan HamptonCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50OUTSTANDING...RIVETING.--Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW) * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history* comes a masterful account o...
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A Woman in the Polar Night
Christiane RitterCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Conjures the rasp of the skin runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights... Sara Wheeler, author of T...
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Everest 24: New Views on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition
Eugene RaeCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50In 1924, the British Mount Everest Expedition led by George Mallory set out to reach the summit of the worlds highest peak. In 2024, documentaries ...
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Canterbury And Other Tales: Treading Ancient Trails
Kim LetsonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Treading Ancient Trails Seeking solace after the death of her husband, Kim Letson discovers a passion for long- distance walking. Through historic...
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Pomegranates at 4800 Metres: Journeying at Home and Away
Kim LetsonCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Journeying at Home and Away Pomegranates at 4800 Metres is a vibrant tapestry woven with themes of love, courage and generosity. Kim Letsons husb...
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Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer
Michael SmithCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99In 1922 a journalist commented on British tenacity to General Bruce, leader of the British Everest Expedition. Bruce replied with a single word: 'S...
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Shackleton''s Boat Journey
FA WorsleyCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99'We were twenty-eight men facing winter on a bleak barren beach of Elephant Island - there was a possibility of a fatal shortage of food - there wa...
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In Search of the Last Continent: Australia and Early Antarctic Exploration
Andrew McConvilleCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99For 70 years powerful countries despatched expeditions to explore the south polar regions. By 1843 they had seen enough to realise that this most r...
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The Edge of Cymru
Julie BrominicksCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50In the course of a year Julie Brominicks walked around the edge of Wales, having left her job in environmental education at the Centre for Alternat...
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
Buddy LevyCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered t...
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historians Journey from Shetland to the Channel
David GangeCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE This is the bo...
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The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete
Christopher SomervilleCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he t...
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Crossing The Sands: The Sahara Desert Track to Timbuktu
Ariane Audouin-DubreuilCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99On December 17, 1922, Andre Citroen sent an expedition of Citroen half tracks or autochenilles to follow the camel tracks across the Sahara desert ...
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Captain James Cook and the Search for Antarctica
James C. HamiltonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Two hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook, during his extraordinary voyages of navigation and maritime exploration, searched for Antarctic...
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Life Lessons from Explorers: Learn how to weather life''s storms from history''s greatest explorers
Felicity AstonCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possibl...
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The Little Book of Wanderlust: Travel quips & quotes for lifes big adventures
WanderlustCurrent price €9.34Original price €10.99The ultimate travel companion for voracious voyagers.Do you yearn for a life off the beaten track? Brought to you by Wanderlust, the original trave...
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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%