Adventurers & Explorers

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

Lieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 1938) was a British Army officer with an established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of Tibet, his explorations of the Himalayas, and a biography which included records of the 1903-4 military...

"Let's go!" With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the stars from within the shadowy world of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620931700Author Lisa ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Lisa ArmstrongPublisher Lisa ArmstrongWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This is the first full-length biography of George James Christian. Originally from Dominica, Christian qualified as a barrister-at-law in London, participated in the first pan-African conference and migrated to the Gold Coast in 1902 where he established...

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 9780646953731Author Shirley Hardy-RixFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shirley Hardy-RixPublisher Shirley Hardy-Rix

By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. And to...

On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal...

In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering...

In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995130906Author Joan DruettFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Joan DruettPublisher Joan DruettWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997293807Author Jake BeatyFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Tunari PressPublisher Tunari PressWeight(grams) 435g

Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue climbing. Her choices were clear: give in to her doubts and descend or push past her own limits and continue up the mountain's steep face...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578360072Author Barret Masten BrewsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Barret Masten BrewsterPublisher Barret Masten BrewsterWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968927Author Sara WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

"Scott Parazynski's drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being." -John Glenn, NASA astronaut An epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461383Author H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent House

Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. After marrying, they began...

In 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halevy on his archaeological tour of Yemen. Twenty years later, Habshush wrote A Vision of Yemen, a memoir of their travels, that provides a vivid account of daily life,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519641Author Nicholas C BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960166012Author Lowell LytleFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Encourage PublishingPublisher Encourage PublishingWeight(grams) 431g

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In this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier-a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, and the joy of discovery.Six-year-old Hans Torske...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461345Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent HouseWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786269559602Author Mark D VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint BesaPublisher BesaWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Richard Garriott has been many things: video game pioneer; wildly successful entrepreneur; and daring adventurer. In 1997, Garriott, who is known online by the handle "Lord British," forever changed the video game industry when he published Ultima...

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 9780998825755Author Kristen JokinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Hawthorne BooksPublisher Hawthorne Books

Son of a scientifically-minded Scottish aristocrat, Basil Hall joined the Royal Navy at the age of 13 in 1802. His first naval engagements in America and Spain during the Peninsular War are described, as are his travels in India and the Far East. His...

An affectionate travelogue that conveys not only impressions of everyday life and descriptions of unique Tibetan customs and traditions but brings us Tibetan history, politics, and religion from a fresh, unstudied perspective Despite the determined...

An affectionate travelogue that conveys not only impressions of everyday life and descriptions of unique Tibetan customs and traditions but brings us Tibetan history, politics, and religion from a fresh, unstudied perspective Despite the determined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935347682Author Lew FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967326535Author Frank MarreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Tripod PressPublisher Tripod PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980317831Author Ashtara AshtaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tara RisingPublisher Tara RisingWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461260Author H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398411951Author CICI Edwards-JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside Livingstone and Stanley. But the part played by the Welsh...

The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside Livingstone and Stanley. But the part played by the Welsh...

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 *...