Adventurers & Explorers

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 9781398472730Author Stuart PaulleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 204g

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 *...

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader and three amateur boatmen. With its churning rapids, sheer cliffs and boat-shattering boulders, the Colorado...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359055Author John D.M. GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605274Author Helen Y. RolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501143373Author Ed CaesarFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139470Author Philip HoareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957585188Author Frank KusyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Grinning Bandit BooksPublisher Grinning Bandit BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780648594703Author Luke RichmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Luke RichmondPublisher Luke RichmondWeight(grams) 440g

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

In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461222Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621453383Author Leon LogothetisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393333787Author Myles TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621453239Author Leon LogothetisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528962780Author Per Lars TonstadFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989318Author A. M. "Tex" JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311229Author Owen ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 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 9780735224377Author InskeepFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461307Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

'A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn't write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time ... that is why my book is not in chronological order; for everything is of the present, held in the moment when...

This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim to have discovered the source of the Nile during their African expedition in 1857-59. Speke died of a gunshot...

In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the...

W.C. Jameson was an active treasure hunter for more than fifty years. He has fallen from cliffs, had ropes break during climbs, been caught in mine shaft cave-ins, contended with flash floods, been shot at, watched men die, and had to deal with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534040Author Ben ShattuckFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999796617Author Robson DobFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Rocket Angel MediaPublisher Rocket Angel MediaWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250842572Author Rebecca RennerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 163mm *...