Discoveries of the World
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes...
EAN: 9781108010429
Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes...
EAN: 9781108010412
Shackleton's Boat Journey
Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others sailed eight hundred...
EAN: 9780712665742
White Rock
One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland.
EAN: 9780753813584
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Discover the truth about ENDURANCE in this superb true story of adventure, shipwreck, storms and...
EAN: 9780753809877
Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28
Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the...
EAN: 9780714617961
Captain Cook
One hundred years on from the death of Cook, another great man, George Collingridge begins his...
EAN: 9780091888985
Captain James Cook
An exciting and marvellously readable biography of Captain James Cook, the last of the great...
EAN: 9780340825563
Geography Militant
* New perspective on the history of geographical exploration (concerned with the relationships...
EAN: 9780631201120
Journals of Captain Cook
Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that...
EAN: 9780140436471
Rage To Live
*A fascinating 'dual' biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.
EAN: 9780349110165
Life at the Extremes
The debut of a female Steve Jones – likeable, literate, lucid and laconic. A sprightly, lavishly...
EAN: 9780006551256
Faber Book of Exploration
An anthology of worlds revealed by explorers through the ages.
EAN: 9780571206124
Scott And Amundsen
A gripping history of the agonies and feuds, as well as the joys, of the legendary 1911-2...
EAN: 9780349113951
High Adventure
All courageous attempts by man to reach the summit of Everest by heading up the northern side...
EAN: 9780747566960
Log from the Sea of Cortez
In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed...
EAN: 9780141186078
Science and the Canadian Arctic
This is a study of science in the exploration of the Canadian Arctic. It covers the century that...
EAN: 9780521524919
Kon-Tiki Expedition
This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a...
EAN: 9780006550334
Big Chief Elizabeth
Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and...
EAN: 9780340748824
Age of Wonder
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books,...
EAN: 9780007149537
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
One of the greatest 19th-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the...
EAN: 9780140445534
