Adventurers & Explorers

In 1968 during the Golden Globe, the first solo non-stop race around the world, Bernard Moitessier sent the following message with a slingshot onto the deck of a freighter, 'I am continuing ...' With this unbelievable decision to turn his back on glory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988623200Author John H AltFormat PaperbackImprint JohnPublisher JohnWeight(grams) 535g

"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh's death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533676177Author V. M. FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473585Author Lee SandlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 199mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556438820Author George James GrinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873519885Author Cathy de MollFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935347804Author Constance HelmericksFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780743492829Author Aron RalstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Gascoigne details what happened in Cook's voyages when he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954997809Author Johnny MolloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Reginald PressPublisher Reginald Press

'No shoes, no vehicle, no food, no water and no idea. I'd always been one of those blokes who ragged on people who found themselves lost in the desert. Now I was one of those people. It was harsh, desolate country for a man all alone in bare feet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473437077Author Linda TrubridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint New Zealand Society of AuthorsPublisher New Zealand Society of AuthorsWeight(grams)...

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of The...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide... In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while...

A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir “Ruby Lal coaxes the remarkable Gulbadan out from the shadows of history.”—Sara Wheeler, Wall Street Journal ...

As he led a tour down the Zambezi River, safari guide Paul heard an ear-splitting crack explode in the stillness, and he immediately knew a hippo had bumped the canoe of one of the apprentice guides. He watched as the guide was catapulted into the water...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982190460Author Will CockrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 281g

The Last Sea Dog tells the story of Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s life and his many sailing adventures. Jean-Luc has rounded Cape Horn 12 times and completed six solo circumnavigations and currently holds the overall record for a west-about circumnavigation...

Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers,...

28,000 miles. 6 continents. 38 countries. A grand meditation, one step at a time. The World Walk is the invigorating true story of a man who circled the globe on foot. After the death of a close friend at seventeen, Tom Turcich resolved to make the most...

David Crockett in Texas: His Search for New Land, by Allen J. Wiener, takes a fresh look at the well-known figure from the perspective of his quest for land in Texas and the new start it promised for his family. This retelling of what the author terms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423902Author Wickliffe W. WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163660Author Nathan WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761426452Author Mitchell BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & Schuster AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster Australia

The life of Captain Robert Falcon Scott – Scott of the Antarctic – and the courage that he exemplified have marked him out as a hero to generations, despite his failure to be the first to reach the South Pole.Born in 1868, Scott joined the Royal Navy as...

'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' New York Times Book Review 'Exquisite and shocking... just as any exploration of the deep should be' Helen Scales, author of The Brilliant Abyss '[A] rich, strange book'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962603065Author Lisa RoderickFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint CatharsisPublisher CatharsisDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm

“Danger was all that thrilled him,” Dick Byrd’s mother once remarked, and from his first pioneering aviation adventures in Greenland in 1925, through his daring flights to the top and bottom of the world and across the Atlantic, Richard E. Byrd dominated...

An award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change.Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the...