Adventurers & Explorers

The Nearly Man is the true, yet almost unbelievable, story of one man's incredible life, beginning in rural Scotland in the reign of Queen Victoria, and ending on the west coast of Canada in the 1970s. In one of the 20th century's great untold stories we...

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 *...

On an April morning in 1789 near the island of Tonga, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to safety in Timor. The mutineers, led by Fletcher...

Following the account of his childhood and his early years aboard in A Steady Trade, Tristan Jones now looks back to his years below decks in the Royal Navy during World War II.Book InformationISBN 9781574090192Author Tristan JonesFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882405254Author Dermot ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Alaska Northwest BooksPublisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

Octogenarian Anthony Smith's journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible story of the survivors of a 1940 boat disaster, who spent 70 days adrift in the Atlantic, eventually reaching...

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries- the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771604673Author Michael SchauchFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759540Author Susan Smith-JosephyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 255g

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...

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...

Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures,T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa,Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461147Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their...

The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing...

For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into...

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 9781608600441Author Stephen TaitFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608600441Author Stephen TaitFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

`When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, `we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist,...

The Evidence of Things Not Seen is the autobiography of remarkable mountaineer, writer and environmentalist W.H. Murray. After being introduced to climbing in his early twenties, Murray's relationship with the outdoors was shaped as much by his time...

Captain Cook claimed the honour of being the first man to sail into the Antarctic Ocean in 1773, which he then circumnavigated the following year. Cook, though, did not see any land, and he declared that there was no such thing as the Southern Continent...

Most people know of Arthur Ransome, the author of the classic children's sailing tale, Swallows & Amazons, and many other books in the same series. But besides his exciting tales of children on the water there is much more to the man. Before he wrote...

Robert Orrell recounts the brutality and immense danger of life on an oil rig.ReviewsBlowout is a riveting true story, the stuff of which legends are made. * Midwest Book Review *Weaves in a great deal of history about oil exploration, boating and the...

Eisner Nominated 2021 At sixteen, bivouacked on a mountainside beneath a sky filled with stars, Jean-Marc Rochette has already begun measuring himself against some of Europe's highest peaks. The Aiguille Dibona, the Coup de Saber, La Meije: the...

“By 1st February the unloading had been completed, and when the ice anchors had been recovered the ship drew slowly away from the ice edge. The dull weather could not suppress the thrill that pulsed through me – this was the real start of my adventure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437070Author Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Christopher had a ringside seat at the dinner table of one of twenty-four Americans who had either entered lunar...

Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east coast of Australia, the whole of New Zealand and many islands in the Pacific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550027686Author Mary Quayle InnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312206376Author Anatoli BoukreevFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

The story behind the hit surfing movie Chasing Mavericks! Surfing legend Frosty Hesson shares the story of his remarkably life and his extraordinary friendship with wunderkind Jay Moriarty.When Richard "Frosty" Hesson was first approached by a young Jay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991340156Author Bernie WebberFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Good Night BooksPublisher Our World of BooksWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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 9780380003211Author Piers Paul ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380003211Author Piers Paul ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those...

The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those...

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...

On a bright July morning in 1870 the British explorer George Hayward was brutally murdered high in the Hindu Kush. Who was he, what had brought him to this wild spot, and why was he killed? Told in full for the first time, this is the gripping tale of...