Adventurers & Explorers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423728Author Wickliffe W. WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037088Author Gerald DurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 206gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 131mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643260037Author Jess PhoenixFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Timber PressPublisher Timber Press

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 9781942645283Author Kyle JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint InksharesPublisher InksharesWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692642634Author Robert L HillikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint My Life in the Wilderness: An Alaskan's StoryPublisher My Life in the Wilderness:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447547Author John P SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love 'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here 'Quietly profound ... belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild' New York...

The hilarious true-life tale of one man's journey from self-confessed planet-killing lad to eco-friendly, green-crusader Dad set against the backdrop of Cool Britannia, Blair's Britain and the rise of the green movement. Back in the nineties,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461246Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461321Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692438817Author Richard BatmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Wordworx PublishingPublisher Wordworx PublishingWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Lesley Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller. Emotions, she insisted, can be transposed to...

Since its publication in 1963, Sterling Hayden's autobiography, Wanderer, has been surrounded by controversy. The author was at the peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered...

A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous and volatile American landscape. One year. One national park at a time. This is it. No more California. I'm sifting into the underbelly of where the...

An extraordinary and invaluable portrait of Syria from traveller, scholar, archaeologist and spy, Gertrude Bell. Gertrude Bell was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311021Author Kathleen PhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

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...

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...

In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957607061Author Charles J DoaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Latah BooksPublisher Latah BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527280175Author Simon VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Papertrue Pte. LtdPublisher Papertrue Pte. LtdWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

"Charles Higham - rugby player, talented excavator and one of the great archaeologists of his generation - is an engaging raconteur. His fast-moving autobiography tells of the life well lived, of a world authority on Southeast Asia's past. This is a...

Is it not better to take risks than die within from rot? Is it not better to change one's life completely than to wait for the brain to set firmly and irreversibly in a way of life and one environment? I think it is ... taking risks, not for the sake of...

Frederick Russell Burnham's (1861-1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as "the...

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

In the summer of 1839, Henry Layard-just twenty-two years old-left England for eastern Europe and distant lands of the Ottoman Empire. He had never set foot in these regions before and wasn't fluent in their languages. But he would experience one...

Full of unusual characters, mischief, camaraderie, and testosterone-fueled man gossip.Bering Sea Strong is a tale of adventure and self-discovery. The story portrays a young woman on a solo journey, pushed to the edge of the earth and further from the...

A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER "A fascinating look" (Esquire) at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780385486804Author Jon KrakauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Welcome to the strange and dangerous world of the VENOM DOC.Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews, and later a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their bodyguards wielding machine guns. Then...

This is a book about one of the first recorded pilgrims who climbed Mount Sinai; it's about Amelia Earhart, the famous American aviator whose story and disappearance continues to capture the world's imagination. It's the story of a doomed expedition to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461369Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316341813Author James DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

An inspirational, uplifting, and life-affirming memoir about passion, resilience and living life to the fullest, from Dr. Dave Williams, one of Canada's most accomplished astronauts.I had dreamt about becoming an astronaut from the time I watched Alan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648594703Author Luke RichmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Luke RichmondPublisher Luke RichmondWeight(grams) 440g

A tale of grit and real teamwork in the wilds of Antarctica when the hunger for knowledge reigns supreme.Anything can happen in a pure wilderness experienced by few humans-a place where unseen menace waits everywhere. This story is an unembellished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618773589Author Edward Beauclerk MauriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 205mm...

David Livingstone rose from being a factory boy to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. This volume of essays, rich in new scholarship, tie in with an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland (beginning 23 November 2012) which...