Adventurers & Explorers

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...

Based on the personal journals of Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson (1881-1945), Egyptologist, poet, surgeon, soldier, psychic, and noted collector, this candid and charming historical biography tells of Gayer-Anderson's strange and eclectic life in the...

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

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 9781911658160Author Keith HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

During 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...

As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status...

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241015Author Adam ShoaltsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701493Author V. K. ArsenievFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams)...

If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign language is Arabic, you just might feel like a wizard. ...

Apologies 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

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...

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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461284Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780602097Author Peter MayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Eland Publishing LtdPublisher Eland Publishing Ltd

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,...

In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new...

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...

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...

"Unduanted Courage" is the story of a heroic and legendary man, and the saga of a great nation creating itself. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson chose Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead the first government-backed exploration of the vast and...

An account of the adventures of a big-game hunter offers glimpses of man-eating leopards, fear-maddened elephants, charging buffalo, cunning hyenas, and other great killers of the African bush country.Book InformationISBN 9780312186135Author Peter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035833863Author Steve StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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...

Only 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,...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250178169Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680515787Author Bernadette McDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955690966Author Thomas HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo Publications

"These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the interrupted...

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...

“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...

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...

Most of us can watch an old episode of the holiday programme Wish You Were Here without it having the life-changing effect that it had on postman Edward Buckingham. For Ed, a young man from humble origins in Cornwall, the draw of Kilimanjaro and the high...

National Geographic 2019 Adventurer of the Year "Beautiful and deftly written and intimate and searing in its honesty, Anish's is a quest to conquer the trail and her own inner darkness."-Foreword Reviews "Filled with ruminative self-reflection,...

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

The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalised generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's...