Geographical Discovery & Exploration

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022_______________'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparklin...

Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captain’s Scott’s ‘giant worker’ and his ‘invaluable assistant’. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Exp...

Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possibl...

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

‘This complex, compelling tale is told with simplicity and grace' - The Times A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the rac...

‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’  JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z‘A wonderful story of a lost ag...

Filming in the world’s most extreme environments requires more than just a steady hand. In temperatures as low as -50 degrees, your body shuts down...

A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history Map, Exploring the World brings together more than 250 fa...

The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe—not least also those who admired and desir...

An ambitious, landmark history of the Scientific Revolution, from the age of Columbus to the age of Cook In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlant...

David Crane has given us a magisterial portrait of one of Britain’s greatest heroes and explorers, acclaimed as the ‘masterpiece’ on the subject. R...

On a bright July morning in 1870 the British explorer George Hayward was brutally murdered high in the Hindu Kush. Who was he, what had brought him...

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, a riveting account of the great expeditions of Antarctica's Heroic Age that restores their status as grand...

The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pan...

Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering w...