Adventurers & Explorers

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...

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

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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 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the...

Long before his finest hour as Britain's wartime leader, Winston Churchill emerged on the world stage as a brazen foreign correspondent, covering wars of empire in Cuba, India, the Sudan, and South Africa.In those far-flung corners of the world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913166694Author John GuiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint Heddon PublishingPublisher Heddon Publishing

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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...

William Hutchison Murray (1913 - 1996) was one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a prisoner of war in Italy he wrote his first classic book, Mountaineering in Scotland, on rough toilet paper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241060Author Adam ShoaltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485695Author Mark SundeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250094223Author Albert PodellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307461254Author James CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

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 9780007161263Author Jason RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three...

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...

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783342211Author George MalloryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square Books LtdWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Nebraska Book Award What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts "take out the trash" on a spacewalk, tightly...

- A memoir of adventure in one of the most dangerous places on the planet - The Karakoram is home to K2, the deadliest of the world's 8,000-meter peaks The best mountain climbing in the world, Steve Swenson will tell you, is in the Karakoram. Swenson...

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)...

In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female...

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...

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...

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...

By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and he judged that America's territory must expand too, lest America become as crowded and conflict-prone as...

A vivid reappraisal of the legendary Captain Cook, from bestselling biographer Frank McLynn The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ESPN/Arthur Ashe Award and Free Spirit Award and Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452282940Author Erik WeihenmayerFormat...

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...

Acclaimed hillwalking writers Ian R Mitchell and George Rodway tell the fascinating story of Aberdeen-born Alexander Kellas, and his contribution to mountaineering from the 20th century to the present day. Now a largely neglected figure, Kellas is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973032048Author Alycin HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Echo Hill ProductionsPublisher Echo Hill ProductionsWeight(grams) 222g

Four years. Seven continents. A quest to document and champion the preservation of the most remote wilderness realms on earth. Veteran wildlife photographer Peter Pickford and his wife Beverly had a dream to photograph the last remaining wild land on...

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...

Soldiers and sailors, geographers and geologists, submariners and balloonists all flocked to Antarctica during the 'Heroic Age' of Polar exploration. No one better represented this eclectic band than Frank Bickerton, engineer on Douglas Mawson's...

Looking back at the lives and sailing careers of some of our lifetime's finest yachtsmen, this collection of eleven original, moving accounts is just as much a celebration of the good - tales of hope, achievement and courageous spirit - as it is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307591777Author David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...