Adventurers & Explorers

Apologies 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...

'Forget geek stereotypes. Parsons' life seems straight out of a Hollywood thriller ... Pendle's book leaves us with a taste of genius's energy and fragility' Los Angeles Magazine'You couldn't make it up' Physics World'As a history of space travel,...

Twelve lost boys, their coach, and the heroes who rescued them. When the 12 young members of the Wild Boars soccer club walked into a Thai cave with their coach, they expected to be out by nightfall. A birthday cake waited in the fridge for one boy,...

On 25 January 2018, Elisabeth Revol and her climbing partner Tomasz Mackiewicz summited Nanga Parbat, the killer mountain. Situated in the Karakoram, the world's ninth-highest peak is an immense ice-armoured pyramid of rock rising to an altitude of 8,125...

The absolutely inspiring true tale of a young couple who gave up the "good life" in England to start a new life in the wilderness of the Yukon Dorian Amos--a painter from Cornwall--and his wife decided that they were in need of adventure, so they gave up...

A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir   “Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan’s achievement.’”—Kirkus Reviews   Situated in the early decades...

Kevin 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...

In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set their sights on Corsica to build their experience. The events of this memorable trip form the basis of...

New 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...

Intrepid 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,...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789557732Author Gerry S M HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 599g

Being paid to explore sounded like a dream job. From Norway to Madagascar, by campervan, taxi, boat and small plane, Amelia Dalton hunted down remote archipelagos, deserted beaches and tiny local museums to create expedition holidays with a difference...

The tale of an Englishman making a life for himself in Senegal. Khady pulled out a breast and with a deadly aim fired milk at the chameleon. "If I don't offer it milk, our son will grow up to look like a lizard," she explained. Clearly I had a lot to...

Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson's epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland as 'the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration'.This Accursed Land tells that story; how Mawson declined to join...

The 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...

What 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMarilyn Dear Nelson was born in California and moved with her military family to army posts and embassies around the US, South America, and Europe. Her...

A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back from the dead" and in New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780767924719Author Ed ViestursFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538716052Author Amy Shira TeitelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955948329Author Paddy MacklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Podkin PressPublisher Podkin Press

The 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...

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Chris 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781400097692Author Nando ParradoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

A walking journey through France's vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present-more than 425,000 copies sold in France After a free-climbing accident lands him in a coma and a hospital for four...

'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...

Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159269Author Duff Hart-DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 525gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

In "Jackdaw Cake" Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy into a worldly wise multilingual intelligence agent on the point of becoming a...

John 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...

Footsteps in the Snow recounts a life shaped and dominated by Antarctica, a multi-facetted account of a life dedicated to Antarctic science, policy and governance. It is also the story of growth from callow youth to Antarctic professional in the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275424Author Brad MatsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Edmund Hillary - A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more...

Higher 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...

In 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,...

Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled...