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Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: €17.84€8.47In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and his men were... -
Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth by Nicholas Crane
RRP: €15.46€8.46Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the adventure that shaped the world . . .'A thrilling story of courage, survival and science. It's an extraordinary, visceral and vivid read' Geographical Magazine________Three hundred years ago no... -
Amazing Surfing Stories: Tales of Incredible Waves & Remarkable Riders by Alex Wade
RRP: €17.84€11.66This eclectic mix of surfing stories has something for everyone, from classic tales of monster waves and epic battles to stories of when life among the breakers goes wrong. There are accounts of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph. The... -
I Spy: My Life in MI5 by Tom Marcus 9781509864096
RRP: €22.60€16.67'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader... -
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth by Leo Houlding
RRP: €23.80€17.48One of Great Britain's finest climbers and adventurers, Leo Houlding started out climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District literally learning the ropes tackling the many historic peaks and crags in the area. Honing his skills as he grew, at... -
South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
RRP: €11.89€7.76The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in... -
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures by Wilbur Smith
RRP: €13.08€8.89Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky... -
Something Wholesale by Eric Newby
RRP: €13.08€8.63Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable trade of... -
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor
RRP: €26.78€21.40A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare"No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such captivating and voluminous detail."-Roger Ekirch, Wall... -
The Couscous Chronicles: Stories of Food, Love, and Donkeys from a Life Between Cultures by Azzedine T. Downes 9781633310759
RRP: €20.17€13.88Follow Azzedine Downes as he drifts between cultures, places, and time to build a life of service and adventure, first as a young educator in Morocco and later as a father making a home for his family in the United States. As the son of an Irish father... -
The Untold Story of Captain James Cook RN: Revelations of a Historical Researcher by Colin Waters 9781399056960
RRP: €26.18€18.59The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, left no modern direct descendants. Using compelling, detailed and verifiable evidence, Colin Waters... -
David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story by Stephen Tomkins 9780745955681
RRP: €13.08€9.82David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to the people - and also to free them from slavery. But who was he, and what was he actually like? "He was an... -
Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic by Robert D. Ballard
RRP: €29.75€19.97The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania reveals the secret military missions behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find. Best known for finding the wreck of the... -
Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition by Michael Smith
RRP: €19.03€14.72Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition's battle to survive against the odds. It is a compelling story which refuses to be laid to rest and recent discovery of his... -
Where The Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam Shoalts 9780735241015
RRP: €28.55€19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241015Author Adam ShoaltsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Darkness Descending by Ken Jones
RRP: €15.46€10.23An astonishing true story of mountaineering survivalOn 5 January 2003, former Special Forces soldier Ken Jones was caught in a devastating avalanche as he climbed in the frozen wilderness of Romania's Transylvanian Alps. Flung from a cliff, he regained... -
The Cave: The Inside Story of the Amazing Thai Cave Rescue by Liam Cochrane 9780733340130
RRP: €19.03€12.91Twelve lost boys, their coach, and the heroes who rescued them. When the 12 young members of the Wild Boars soccer club walked into a Thai cave with their coach, they expected to be out by nightfall. A birthday cake waited in the fridge for one boy,... -
Nansen: The Explorer as Hero by Roland Huntford
RRP: €20.22€13.73Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration,... -
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him by Eric Blehm 9780062971401
RRP: €29.75€19.55"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding,... -
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts
RRP: €28.55€23.74By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a... -
Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: €13.08€8.81Explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes explores the concept of fear, and shows us through his own experiences how we can push our boundaries in everyday life.Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on... -
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 9780679457527
RRP: €35.70€22.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 1998 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679457527Author Jon... -
Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: Thai Cave Rescue by John Volanthen
RRP: €23.80€15.51READ ABOUT THE HEROIC RESCUE, AS SEEN IN RON HOWARD'S THIRTEEN LIVES, FROM THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE SEARCH. 'A profound and thrilling read.' COLIN FARRELL 'Riveting...a powerful story written by a hero who lived it.' RON HOWARD, Oscar-winning director... -
Shark Bytes: Tales of Diving with the Bizarre and the Beautiful by John Bantin
RRP: €21.41€14.92The popular image of sharks is of a dorsal fin cleaving the surface as it rushes to its next kill, but this is a limited caricature. There are over 500 species to choose from, most of whom are far more frightened of humans than vice versa. In this... -
Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelson
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423346Author Ejnar MikkelsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press -
Animal Explorers: Lola the Plant Hunter PB by Sharon Rentta
RRP: €8.32€6.20Animal Explorers is a wonderful picture book series that will inspire all budding travellers and explorers to follow their dreams. Lola the polar bear has a passion for plants. She's determined to find the rarest ones on... -
Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming
RRP: €17.84€11.02It began with an advertisement in the agony column of The Times: Leaving England June, to explore rivers Central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Fawcett; abundance game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns. Colonel Fawcett... -
Cold Wars: Climbing the fine line between risk and reality by Andy Kirkpatrick 9781906148461
RRP: €15.46€11.02Winner of the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature 'I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. I was freezing to death.' In... -
Free-Falling: True Stories of One Man's Leap into the Miraculous by Brad Webster 9781453748787
RRP: €17.85€15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453748787Author Brad WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Great Mountaineering Classic by Hermann Buhl 9781910240588
RRP: €15.46€9.78'Me not belong in the mountains? Why, I couldn't go on living without them! My thoughts, my dreams, my whole life were nothing but the mountains!'In 1953 Hermann Buhl made the first ascent of Nanga Parbat - the ninth-highest mountain in the world, and... -
Rowing the Pacific: 7,000 Miles from Japan to San Francisco by Mick Dawson
RRP: €11.89€8.09Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger, and lack of water are just a few of the challenges that ocean rower Mick Dawson endured whilst attempting to complete one of the World's 'Last Great Firsts'.In this nail-biting true story of man versus... -
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham
RRP: €22.60€15.17'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN'Wonderful ... both frank and fearless' TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Fascinating' GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRSFrom Mexico to the... -
Captain Cook by Alistair MacLean
RRP: €11.89€7.90On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of... -
Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet by Jenny Graham
€20.77A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT 'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine Kelly 'Brilliant' - Mark Beaumont 'A compelling account of a truly remarkable achievement' - Tim Moore, travel writer 16 countries,... -
Scarp by Nick Papadimitriou
RRP: €13.08€8.81AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary book by a man with a unique and inspiring perspective, SCARP will change the way you view the places and spaces around you, and reveal a forgotten London you never knew existed.Nick Papadimitriou has spent... -
The Art of Exploration: Lessons in Curiosity, Leadership and Getting Things Done by Levison Wood 9781529343069
RRP: €15.46€10.23'Forget routine; now is the time to embrace the unknown, step out of your comfort zone and open the gateway to the Art of Exploration.''Britain's best loved adventurer' (The Times) talks about his secrets of discovery for the first time in this revealing... -
The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears by Nick Jans 9780452287358
RRP: €22.73€17.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287358Author Nick JansFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 133mm * 17mm -
Himalaya by Michael Palin 9780753819906
RRP: €10.70€7.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover by Graham Boynton
RRP: €33.31€22.12He was the original 20th century "enfant terrible" with the looks of a Greek god who blazed like a comet across the worlds of art, photography, and fame. The scion of several old WASP fortunes, he was by instinct an adventurer, and the more dangerous the... -
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Forget geek stereotypes. Parsons' life seems straight out of a Hollywood thriller ... Pendle's book leaves us with a taste of genius's energy and fragility' Los Angeles Magazine'You couldn't make it up' Physics World'As a history of space travel,...