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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen 9781847247674
RRP: £14.99£9.80In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Among the... -
Scott of the Antarctic: We Shall Die Like Gentlemen by Sue Blackhall 9781526796653
RRP: £12.99£9.09Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only... -
Don Roberto: The Adventure of Being Cunninghame Graham by James Jauncey 9781910895764
RRP: £24.99£17.71'A combination of all that is best in memoir, biography and history.' - Caroline Moorehead 'In this remarkable book... Jauncey has performed the great service of reminding us of a wonderful figure from Scotland's recent history.' - Alexander McCall... -
In The Shadow of Ben Nevis by Ian Sykes 9781898573982
RRP: £14.95£11.51In 1959, sixteen-year-old Ian 'Spike' Sykes left school and, after a short period of work at Leeds University, joined the RAF. Already a keen climber, he signed up on the promise of excitement and adventure and was posted to the remote RAF Kinloss... -
A Traveller's Life by Eric Newby 9780007367870
RRP: £10.99£7.77A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the... -
The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains by Jeremy Jones
£21.322023 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Adventure Guides 2023 Banff Mountain Book Award finalist in Guidebooks Includes stories, lists, and prescriptive guidance based on Jones's experiences as well as those of other wellknown... -
On Polar Tides: Paddling and Surviving the Coast of Northern Labrador by Nigel Foster 9781493025688
RRP: £14.99£13.05In 1981, Nigel Foster flew to Canada's Baffin Island to begin a solo kayak trip south toward northern Labrador. After crossing the 40-mile wide Hudson Strait in howling winds and fighting a 10 knot tide race, Foster crash-landed on a small island in the... -
Racundra's First Cruise by Arthur Ransome
RRP: £16.99£11.54Racundra's First Cruise is Arthur Ransome's account of Racundra's maiden voyage, which took place in August and September 1922. The cruise took him from Riga, in Latvia to Helsingfors (Helsinki) in Finland, via the Moon Sound and Reval (Tallinn) in... -
Amsterdam Exposed: An American's Journey Into the Red Light District by David Wienir
RRP: £15.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999355909Author David WienirFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint de Wallen PressPublisher de Wallen Press -
Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening by Liz Clark
RRP: £24.99£17.72Chasing a dream is never easy, but if you go far enough, it will set you free. Captain Liz Clark spent her youth dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat and surfing remote waves. When she was 22, she met a mentor who helped turn her desire into... -
Magellan by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.99£8.56The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean,... -
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa by Steve Kemper 9780393346237
RRP: £12.99£11.46In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His... -
Above the Clouds Tpb by Anatoli Boukreev 9780312291372
RRP: £18.99£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312291372Author Anatoli BoukreevFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 215mm... -
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood 9781801102575
RRP: £20.00£14.29100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and... -
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville
RRP: £9.99£7.11Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in 'the lands beyond' - countries populated... -
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen
RRP: £10.99£7.77He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged... -
Knox-Johnston on Seamanship & Seafaring: Lessons & Experiences from the 50 Years Since the Start of His Record Breaking Voyage by Robin Knox-Johnston
RRP: £14.99£9.26On 14th June 1968 Robin Knox-Johnston set sail from Falmouth to take part in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race - the first, non-stop, single-handed sailing race around the world. He was an unknown 29-year old Merchant Navy Officer. Ten and a half months... -
In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Mazeno Ridge by Sandy Allan
RRP: £9.99£7.27Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's... -
Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World by Rosemary J Brown 9781399000529
RRP: £14.99£10.95Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a man's world' alone and literally with just the clothes on her back to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890,... -
Deep Play: Climbing the world's most dangerous routes by Paul Pritchard 9781906148584
RRP: £12.99£9.26WINNER: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature 1997Paul Pritchard's Deep Play is a unique, stylish and timeless commentary reflecting the pressures and rewards of climbing some of the world's hardest and most challenging rock climbs.Pritchard... -
Sacred Summits: Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid, and Gauri Sankar by Peter Boardman
RRP: £9.99£7.27Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains.He began in the New Year, on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This... -
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: £12.99£8.48WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the... -
Cycling Home From Siberia by Rob Lilwall 9780340979860 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£4.71'It is late October, and the temperature is already -40C...My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.'In 2004 Rob Lilwall... -
Cycling Home From Siberia by Rob Lilwall
RRP: £10.99£7.40'It is late October, and the temperature is already -40C...My thoughts are filled with frozen rivers that may or may not hold my weight; empty, forgotten valleys haunted by emaciated ghosts and packs of ravenous, merciless wolves.'In 2004 Rob Lilwall... -
The Hill of Devi: An Englishman at the Court of a Maratha Maharaja in 1921 by E. M. Forster 9781780601601
RRP: £12.99£8.60The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a 'record of a vanished civilization.' Through letters from his time visiting and working there, he introduces us to a 14th century political... -
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley 9780061834790
RRP: £18.99£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061834790Author Graham BowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 245g -
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts 9780393347784
RRP: £13.99£11.79On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss... -
The Mountain Path: A climber's journey through life and death by Paul Pritchard
£17.17'All I wanted to do was go to sleep. And I was certain that if I did drift off, it would be for the last time.'In 1998, Paul Pritchard was struck on the head by a falling rock as he climbed a sea stack in Tasmania called the Totem Pole. Close to death,... -
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
RRP: £12.99£8.48The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant... -
The Modern Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
RRP: £10.99£7.40Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly... -
Sanctuary in the Extreme by John Proctor 9781514757024
RRP: £34.00£27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514757024Author John ProctorFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Travelling with Ghosts: An intimate and inspiring journey by Shannon Leone Fowler
RRP: £8.99£5.45'A cross between H is for Hawk and Wild' Stylist 'A courageous memoir of love and loss . . . compelling' Sunday Express'Intimate and inspiring' Observer 'Rich and absorbing' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love 'A brave and necessary... -
Moonwalker: Adventures of a Midnight Mountaineer by Alan Rowan
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909430174Author Alan RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint BackPage Press LimitedPublisher BackPage Press Limited -
Winter 8000: Climbing the world's highest mountains in the coldest season by Bernadette McDonald
RRP: £24.00£15.93'He appeared, without a word, in the tent's entrance, covered in ice. He looked like anyone would after spending over twenty-four hours in a hurricane at over 8,000 metres. In winter. In the Karakoram. He was so exhausted he couldn't speak.'Of all the... -
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
RRP: £20.00£12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782069Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts 9780525619321
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525619321Author Elizabeth LettsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration by The Explorers Club 9781984859983
RRP: £30.00£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859983Author The Explorers ClubFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
My Outdoor Life: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Ray Mears 9781444778212 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.38'If Ray Mears isn't a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough-Bellamy tradition.' - Robert Crampton, The TimesRay Mears is a household name through his television... -
My Outdoor Life: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Ray Mears
RRP: £12.99£8.60'If Ray Mears isn't a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough-Bellamy tradition.' - Robert Crampton, The TimesRay Mears is a household name through his television... -
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
RRP: £32.00£20.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385545570Author Susan CaseyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...