Adventurers & Explorers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101902622Author Adam BegleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916298446Author Glynn ChristianFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Hendon BooksPublisher Hendon BooksWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

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...

If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War-a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732853102Author Steve CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Expand Your PossiblePublisher Expand Your PossibleWeight(grams) 313g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583949818Author Paul BruntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913822040Author Daz TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Fortis Publishing Services Ltd.Publisher Fortis Publishing Services Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680516586Author David Chaundy-SmartFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers Books

The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more...

2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin Awards In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981650Author Vicki CrokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062909107Author Laurie WooleverFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor,...

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. FrEmont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His...

Explorers 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...

Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by...

Candido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919649504Author Graham AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Edgcumbe PressPublisher Edgcumbe PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This book offers a biography of the unacknowledged Tahitian navigator who was essential to the success and eventual fame of Captain Cook's historic voyage on the Endeavour. Tupaia was the brilliant Polynesian navigator and translator who sailed with...

Weary of her Yorkshire county life of grouse moors and hunt balls, Amelia Dalton threw herself instead into running a deep sea trawler amongst the closed community of fishermen in NE Scotland in the '90s. Unprepared by her background in cookery and...

Everything changed for Sophie Cairns when she was thirty and a party-loving journalist in China. Her father died so suddenly that she arrived at his bedside two hours too late. In her grief, she defied her chronic asthma and climbed the world's seven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789871531Author Roald AmundsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 200g

Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an extraordinary adventure story and an important historical document.Between December 1968 and December 1972, twenty-four men...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849027335Author Charles Herbert LightollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting...

In April 1999, the authors set off on a gruelling journey, on horseback, following the trail of the elusive and most successful outlaws of the Wild West - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Part of the brand new Eye Classics series from Eye BooksAbout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307463531Author Glynis RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586420000Author Lennard BickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Explorers 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...

As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation with moments of delight and enthusiasm. On his way to the launchpad, he literally jumped for joy in his...

Lewen Weldon was mapping the eastern desert of Egypt when World War I broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was recruited to run a network of spies and confidential agents who were landed from a steam yacht onto the Syrian coast behind Turkish lines. He...

'She has written the best travel books of her generation and her name will survive as an artist in prose.' - The Observer Written just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Biography/Memoir) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780544102767Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton...

The popular image of sharks is of a dorsal fin cleaving the surface as it rushes to its next kill, but this is a limited caricature. There are over 500 species to choose from, most of whom are far more frightened of humans than vice versa. In this...