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Over the Top: The First Lone Yachtsman to Sail Vertically Around the World by Adrian Flanagan
RRP: £10.99£7.77Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world singlehandedly - Adrian Flanagan. Sailing horizontally is difficult enough, crossing thousands of miles of ocean only to get near land at the Capes and battle treacherous currents. However,... -
The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery by Torbjorn Ekelund
RRP: £16.99£11.67In this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier-a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, and the joy of discovery.Six-year-old Hans Torske... -
Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat by Peter Nichols 9781493052004
RRP: £14.99£12.78With only a sextant, his instincts as a seasoned sailor, and a boat filled with memories of his floundering marriage, Peter Nichols sets out on a solo voyage from England to Maine, where he plans to sell his beloved, twenty-seven-foot, engineless boat,... -
Nine Lives: Expeditions to Everest by Robert Mads Anderson
RRP: £14.95£11.51Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, he led a team up a new route on the Kangshung Face without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote... -
Extreme Survivors: 60 epic stories of human endurance by Collins Maps
£14.55Foreword by Bear Grylls, presenter of Running Wild and The Island. The most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Compelling descriptions combined with... -
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan
£14.10A 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... -
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus 9780140442175
£11.67No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his... -
A Wild Idea: The True Story of Douglas Tompkins--The Greatest Conservationist (You've Never Heard Of) by Jonathan Franklin
RRP: £28.99£17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062964120Author Jonathan FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 152g -
Edward Warren: Mountain Man Eyewitness Accounts by William Drummond Stewart 9780692439197
RRP: £23.19£21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692439197Author William Drummond StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 698Imprint Wordworx PublishingPublisher Wordworx PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound 9781035008452
RRP: £16.99£13.21SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance,... -
A Wild Call: One Man's Voyage in Pursuit of Freedom by Martyn Murray
RRP: £11.99£8.00Martyn Murray was finding modern life, with all its restrictions and controls, suffocating. Following years of soul-searching, his father's death triggered him into opening the old logbooks and charts to retrace the sailing trips they had once shared... -
Red Cloud and the Indian Trader: The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier by Marilyn Dear Nelson 9781493073900
RRP: £18.99£13.61Apologies 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... -
The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert
RRP: £13.99£12.26During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the... -
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny
RRP: £25.99£18.62In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader and three amateur boatmen. With its churning rapids, sheer cliffs and boat-shattering boulders, the Colorado... -
Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle by Mike Horn 9780312382049
RRP: £14.99£14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312382049Author Mike HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm... -
Signs of Life: A Doctor's Journey Around the Edges of the World by Stephen Fabes 9781643131955
RRP: £27.95£17.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643131955Author Stephen FabesFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *... -
I, Tarzan: Against All Odds - An Inspiring Real-Life Story of Courage, Hope, and True Resilience by Jean-Philippe Soule 9780984344857
RRP: £17.99£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984344857Author Jean-Philippe SouleFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Native Planet AdventuresPublisher Native Planet AdventuresWeight(grams) 152g -
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession by Dan Koeppel 9780452285392
RRP: £24.00£16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452285392Author Dan KoeppelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 21mm -
Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment by Barbara Mitchell
RRP: £28.00£27.63"[M]arvelous and compelling..." - John Milloy, author of The Plains Cree and A National Crime As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides... -
Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast by Robert MacKinnon
RRP: £19.01£14.54For more than four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Known as the Death Coast for its... -
Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier by Freya Stark
RRP: £12.99£9.79A detailed account of famed travel writer Freya Stark's journey through the Mediterranean. When Roman legions marched into Asia Minor in 200BC, their plan was to secure a buffer zone between the Mediterranean, which they virtually owned, and the area... -
Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures: Facing Up - Facing the Frozen Ocean by Bear Grylls 9781447274421 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Bear Grylls is one of the world's most famous survivors. Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures combines two of his greatest adventures told in Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest... -
Olga Tufnells 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean by John D.M. Green 9781787359055
RRP: £30.00£25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359055Author John D.M. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g -
We Don't Go Far But We Do See Life: Adventures on a Dutch Barge by Keith Harris
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658160Author Keith HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Isabella Bird: A Photographic Journal of Travels Through China 1894 1896 by Debbie Ireland 9781781450970
RRP: £25.00£17.98This is a lavish pictorial record produced in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). It features 200 unique photographs taken by Isabella Bird that transport the reader to the China of the late 19th century. It includes supporting... -
Wanderer by Sterling Hayden 9780393336283
RRP: £24.00£21.59Sterling Hayden was at the peak of his earning power as a star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, and, broke and an outlaw, set sail with his four children in the schooner... -
Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog by Kurt Caswell
RRP: £14.99£9.88Laika 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... -
On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb by Hans Florine 9781493077205
RRP: £14.99£11.53Hans Florine embodies the genius of "and"-collaborative and competitive, fast and safe, audacious and disciplined, visionary and quantitative. The themes that run through Florine's 101 ascents of Yosemite's most iconic route can benefit people who will... -
Seven Climbs: Finding the finest climb on each continent by Charles Sherwood 9781912560851
RRP: £14.95£11.11'Even the most casual reader among you will by now have worked out that the whole thing is little more than a delightful ruse for having a very good time.'Experienced climber Charles Sherwood is on a quest to find the best climb on each continent. He... -
Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole by Richard E. Byrd 9781442241701
RRP: £18.99£14.72American hero and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. tells the story of his first journey through Antarctica and the founding of a series of camps and bases referred to as "Little America." Over the years, many similar areas were developed as camps... -
Quiet for a Tuesday: Solo in the Algerian Sahara by Tom Sheppard 9780953232451
£32.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953232451Author Tom SheppardFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Desert Winds PublishingPublisher Desert Winds Publishing -
Life Lessons from Explorers: How to scale life's summits and think like an explorer by Felicity Aston
RRP: £12.99£8.60Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in... -
Waking Up in Paris: Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light by Sonia Choquette
£13.33'As if waking up from a nightmare, I thought: if I am going to be traumatized, I might as well be traumatized in Paris, right?' Devastated by the unexpected end of her decades-long marriage, renowned spiritual teacher and intuitive guide Sonia Choquette... -
War On The Run by John F. Ross
RRP: £16.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384574Author John F. RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Missionaries by Norman Lewis 9781906011529
RRP: £12.99£8.60In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Book... -
In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal by David Constantine
RRP: £11.99£9.08In the Footsteps of the Gods traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who travelled there. Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and... -
Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole by Wayne L White 9781640125520
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winter owns most of the year at the South Pole, starting in mid-February and ending in early November. Total darkness lasts for months, temperatures can drop below -100 degrees Fahrenheit, and windchill can push temperatures to -140 degrees. At those... -
A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road by Ed Miller
RRP: £15.99£11.04Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road.They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America: the winding mountainsides at sunrise, the first frosts of winter descending on apple orchards,... -
Never Leave a Man Behind: Around the Falklands and Rowing across the Pacific by Mick Dawson
RRP: £7.99£5.31'Mick Dawson's gripping Never Leave A Man Behind, effectively two adventure stories for the price of one, can be justifiably described as "unputdownable". Dawson is a man you would want on your side, whether in battle or tackling waves as high as houses... -
A Short Walk to the Edge of Life: How My Simple Adventure Became a Dance with Death and Taught Me What Really Matters by Hubbartt Scott 9781601426048
RRP: £11.99£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601426048Author Scott HubbarttFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A...