Adventurers & Explorers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527271Author Matthew GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward - and some...

The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, left no modern direct descendants. Using compelling, detailed and verifiable evidence, Colin Waters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946053Author Linda TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098315061Author Jonny BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578418483Author Jerry PushcarFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Last Cache PublishingPublisher Last Cache PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in...

Gertrude Bell's fascinating account of a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment of Persia. 'Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who danced with you...

From within this beautifully crafted and deeply knowledgeable narrative emerges a rare and exquisitely rendered portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869194130Author Peter StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590482131Author Christina DodwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Long Riders' Guild PressPublisher Long Riders' Guild Press

The story of a man who achieved what thousands only dream of. He abandoned the pressures of life as a journalist in noisy, overcrowded cities and exchanged it for self-sufficiency, solitude and a new purpose. After finding a remote plot of land among...

Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic exploration of the world and the amazing events that Heyerdahl...

Apologies 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 *...

Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything I've had my James Bond do. -Ian Fleming James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim? When James Bond published his landmark book, Birds of the West Indies, he had no...

"[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...

The North Face of the Eiger was long notorious as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had claimed the lives of numerous mountaineers. In February 1966, two teams - one German, the other British-American - aimed to climb it by a new...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica...

'If you love thrilling adventure books that'll keep you on the edge of your seat, then you're going to love this one' - Naomi Dunbar, Adventure Travel'I am an ocean rower, and have read a lot of books by fellow ocean rowers, and enjoyed them, BUT, this...

'If you love thrilling adventure books that'll keep you on the edge of your seat, then you're going to love this one' - Naomi Dunbar, Adventure Travel'I am an ocean rower, and have read a lot of books by fellow ocean rowers, and enjoyed them, BUT, this...

WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952544921Author Judith FuhrmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Judith Hirschy-FuhrmannPublisher Judith Hirschy-FuhrmannWeight(grams)...

Bear 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...

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 Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .'Of all Michael Palin's epic voyages, this may be his greatest ever challenge: crossing the vast and unforgiving Sahara...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399911184Author Lewis MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Lewis MatthewsPublisher Lewis MatthewsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe-not least also those who admired and desired other men. Among these sojourners was William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman who found...

In early 1978, an extraordinary new invention for rock climbers was featured on the BBC television science show Tomorrow's World. It was called the 'Friend', and it not only made the sport safer, it helped push the limits of the possible. The company...

In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999765866Author Anna McNuffFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Anna McNuffPublisher Anna McNuffWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757464Author Jane Fletcher GeniesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737903901Author Sue TidwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Circle T PublishingPublisher Circle T PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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 9781737068648Author Andrew TerrillFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Enchanted Rock Press, LLCPublisher Enchanted Rock Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

Siberia, 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,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771602167Author Junko TabeiFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844260478Author Charles CataniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Upfront PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736420324Author Nigel FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Nigel KayaksPublisher Nigel KayaksWeight(grams) 558g