Adventurers & Explorers

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312672546Author Captain Sig HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

At age six, Sasha DiGiulian stepped into a climbing gym for the first time and was competing within a year. Decked out in all-pink gear and with her blonde hair tied into pigtails, Sasha knew from an early age what is was like to be a girl in a...

When Ernest Shackleton resolved to cross Antarctica in 1915, he knew the task would require two parties of men. Shackleton and his crew aimed to cross the continent - but were to meet with disaster when their ship, the Endurance, was frozen into the ice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420967913Author John MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Highly Commended, Outdoor Book category, Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence 2019We are all climbing where we are and with the gear we use in no small part due to Tony Howard's quest for adventure.Tony Howard rose to fame in...

This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist's ever-changing and maturing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803212Author Erich von DanikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g

Jules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five. The odds of dying on Everest are one in 60, but these are severely shortened when factoring in an avalanche triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Jules lived to...

Jules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five. The odds of dying on Everest are one in 60, but these are severely shortened when factoring in an avalanche triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Jules lived to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239610Author Jack BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 566g

WINNER: 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...

A 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...

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,...

Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable...

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...

Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but-due...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692414088Author Bonnie WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Samuel Tree Publishing, LLCPublisher Samuel Tree Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

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 9780998825755Author Kristen JokinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Hawthorne BooksPublisher Hawthorne Books

As the culminating volume of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr.'s renowned expeditions, this is the comprehensive autobiography of a man who knew no limits. From his earliest days as a Navy pilot in training, to his controversial flights to the North and South...

In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the...

In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.With the growing impact of climate change, an estimated one third of the world's population lacks fresh water. By 2050 it could well be over...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999528621Author Kevin CallanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Kevin CallanPublisher Kevin CallanWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761424052Author Richard HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & Schuster AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster Australia

T. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic and very personal account of their revolt against the Turks in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Yet this was not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957607061Author Charles J DoaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Latah BooksPublisher Latah BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994179302Author Iain FinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint High Adventure PublishingPublisher High Adventure PublishingWeight(grams)...

In the year 2000, Roz Savage seemed to have it all. But she felt there was a mismatch between the person she was pretending to be on the outside, and the person she wanted to be on the inside. Leaving behind her life as a London professional, she set out...

In the year 2000, Roz Savage seemed to have it all. But she felt there was a mismatch between the person she was pretending to be on the outside, and the person she wanted to be on the inside. Leaving behind her life as a London professional, she set out...

Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of "firebrand," "populist," "anti-American" president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Alone in the crime capital of the world...

Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784778361Author Brian JackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel GuidesWeight(grams) 130g

Winner of the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature 'I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. I was freezing to death.' In...

Major Norton gave the order to fire two or three times ... Their advanced machine gunners could be seen rushing forward and establishing themselves in commanding posts ... Almost at once the ridge we were occupying was swept by machine gun fire ... ...

The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd - the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the...

A compelling personal journey of discovery, illuminating the Iran that lies beyond the headlines. For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown to him. Wanting...

In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist, teacher, musician, and, above all, photographer. Written with characteristic warmth, vigour,...