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Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace
RRP: £25.00£16.43An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and... -
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe by Alan Verskin
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new... -
The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson
RRP: £35.00£25.29Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and... -
The Man Who Loved Siberia by Roy Jacobsen 9781529413038
RRP: £25.00£16.38Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.Fritz Doerries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers,... -
Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99£7.25'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice. To avoid other tourists, Eric Newby had... -
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Journey by Caroline Alexander 9780375404030
RRP: £30.00£23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Awards 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780375404030Author Caroline AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A... -
Highland Hermit by James Carron
RRP: £7.41£6.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479399338Author James CarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm -
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor 9780300257519
RRP: £12.99£11.46A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare"No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such captivating and voluminous detail."-Roger Ekirch, Wall... -
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys by Alexander Maitland 9781474606295
RRP: £11.99£8.00Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised... -
A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins by Lloyd Spencer Davis
RRP: £22.00£14.45George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian... -
The Crossing: A memoir of love, adventure and finding your own path by Sophie Matterson 9781761068829
RRP: £16.99£11.58'The Crossing is as profound as it is moving - a tapestry of adventure, love and, of course, camels.' Tim Cope, author of On the Trail of Genghis KhanIn 2020, at the age of thirty-one, Sophie Matterson set out to walk her five camels from Shark Bay in... -
Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod
RRP: £14.99£14.10A New York Times bestsellerFor readers of Eat Pray Love, Under the Tuscan Sun, and The 4-Hour Workweek, comes a funny, romantic, and inspiring travel memoir about a woman who quits her job, moves to Paris, and finds love-and herself.With romantic Paris... -
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Voyage of Apollo 11 by James Donovan 9781445699073
RRP: £20.00£13.74Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission made history, this book tells the epic story of the astronauts, flight controllers and engineers who made it happen. On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon, a... -
Passage To Juneau by Jonathan Raban 9780330346290
RRP: £12.99£9.26An entrancing travelogue from celebrated writer Jonathan Raban.First published in 1999, Passage to Juneau is an account of Raban's personal journey from Seattle to the Alaskan Capital by boat through the meandering sea route, the Inside Passage, told in... -
The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger 9780393334258
RRP: £25.00£22.47As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status... -
Explorer: The Quest for Adventure, Discovery and the Great Unknown by Benedict Allen
RRP: £18.99£12.48What does it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century? Explorer is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet - at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote... -
The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent Into the Ocean's Depths by Bernie Chowdhury 9780060932596
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932596Author Bernie ChowdhuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World by Jessica Nabongo
RRP: £30.00£24.77In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo-the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world-shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts,... -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his... -
The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?: Looking at the Evidence by W. B. Carnochan
RRP: £18.99£16.72This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim to have discovered the source of the Nile during their African expedition in 1857-59. Speke died of a gunshot... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn
RRP: £22.00£15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563617Author Mary DearbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
William Chapman - Reminiscences by William Chapman 9781869191924
RRP: £31.00£25.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869191924Author William ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 990g -
Starman by Jamie Doran
RRP: £10.99£7.77_______________ 'Starman takes us at breakneck speed through Gagarin's strange trajectory ... Without books like these to shelter it, history is eroded by propaganda and real heroes fall victim to spin' - New Scientist 'A riveting account of... -
The Colour of the Sky After Rain by Tessa Keswick
RRP: £30.00£21.35An extraordinary memoir of one woman's experiences in China. ******************************** Tessa Keswick first travelled to China in 1982 and immediately fell in love with its history, culture and landscape. Over the next thirty years, she... -
Endurance: SAS Soldier. Polar Adventurer. Decorated Leader by Louis Rudd 9781529031768 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.70'Gripping pulse-racing adventure by a true legend. Louis Rudd's courage and determination is admirable' - Andy McNab_____________________In 2018 Captain Louis Rudd MBE walked into the history books when he finished a solo, unsupported crossing of... -
Endurance: SAS Soldier. Polar Adventurer. Decorated Leader by Louis Rudd
RRP: £8.99£6.60'Gripping pulse-racing adventure by a true legend. Louis Rudd's courage and determination is admirable' - Andy McNab_____________________In 2018 Captain Louis Rudd MBE walked into the history books when he finished a solo, unsupported crossing of... -
The Last of the Donkey Pilgrims: A Man's Journey Through Ireland by Kevin O'Hara 9780765309846
RRP: £10.99£10.95Kevin O'Hara's journey of self discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the entire coastline of Ireland on foot - and with a donkey and cart no less? But Kevin had promised his homesick Irish Mother that he would... -
Higher than Everest: Tendi Sherpa: A Lifetime of Climbing the World by Flore Dussey 9781399064187
RRP: £20.00£14.29Higher than Everest paints an uncompromising portrait of Tendi Sherpa, who has successfully climbed twenty-one mountains over 8,000m, including fourteen ascents of Everest. This young father, part of the elite group of Nepalese guides, embodies the new... -
Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya by William Carlsen 9780062407405
RRP: £10.99£7.25New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) * THE "MASTERFUL CHRONICLE"* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA--AN "ADVENTURE TALE THAT MAKES INDIANA JONES LOOK TAME"* In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins... -
The Villa Ariadne by Dilys Powell 9781780600352
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Villa Ariadne is a meditation on the island of Crete, centred on the house built by Sir Arthur Evans, the famous archaeologist of Knossos. Dilys Powell captures the spirit of a place she loved dearly and a group of people she knew well, from local... -
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
£27.10The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust... -
Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World by Brad Borkan 9781945312144
RRP: £12.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945312144Author Brad BorkanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 9780679428503
RRP: £30.00£18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679428503Author Jon KrakauerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random... -
The Magnificent Adventures of Alexander Mackenzie by Noel B Gerson 9781800553934
RRP: £9.99£8.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800553934Author Noel B GersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 299g -
Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise by Gwynn White 9781506099323
RRP: £15.99£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506099323Author Gwynn WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
One Man on a Bike: Adventure on the Road from England to Greece and back: 2019 by Richard Georgiou
RRP: £7.99£6.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658139Author Richard GeorgiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 321gDimensions(mm)... -
Chris Bonington Mountaineer: A lifetime of climbing the great mountains of the world by Sir Chris Bonington 9781910240779
RRP: £20.00£14.88Chris Bonington Mountaineer is a photographic autobiography, documenting over sixty years of climbing the world's most beautiful and challenging mountains. Few climbers can match Bonington's climbing achievements. He is one of the most accomplished and... -
A Talib's Tale: The Life and Times of a Pashtoon Englishman by John Butt 9781847741561 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£7.41John Butt came to Swat in 1970 as a young man in search of an education he couldn't get from his birthplace in England. He travels around the region, first only with friends from his home country, but as he befriends the locals and starts to learn about... -
A Talib's Tale: The Life and Times of a Pashtoon Englishman by John Butt
RRP: £12.99£8.63John Butt came to Swat in 1970 as a young man in search of an education he couldn't get from his birthplace in England. He travels around the region, first only with friends from his home country, but as he befriends the locals and starts to learn about... -
The Bull of Minos: The Great Discoveries of Ancient Greece by Leonard Cottrell
RRP: £16.99£10.47The cities of Troy and Knossos are the stuff of legend. One, the city of Homer's "Iliad", of Paris, Hector and Helen; the other home to a king who built a labyrinth in which to hide his monstrous son. This is the story of two of the most heroic, and...