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Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Great Mountaineering Classic by Hermann Buhl 9781910240588
RRP: £12.99£8.22'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: £9.99£6.80Storms, 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: £18.99£12.75'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: £9.99£6.64On 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
£17.45A 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: £10.99£7.40AN 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: £12.99£8.60'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: £19.10£14.60Apologies 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: £8.99£6.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover by Graham Boynton
RRP: £27.99£18.59He 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: £10.99£7.40'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,... -
Instead: The Sometimes Complicated Choice of an Adventurous, Childfree Life by Maria Coffey 9781771606400
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771606400Author Maria CoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books -
Beyond The Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9780316854580 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.47Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been hailed by the GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the world's greatest living explorer. Now in his late fifties and still recovering from his latest expedition, an unsupported attempt to reach the North Pole which nearly cost him... -
The Shipwreck Hunter: A lifetime of extraordinary deep-sea discoveries by David L. Mearns
RRP: £14.99£9.53David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... -
Yasuke: The true story of the legendary African Samurai by Kelley Armstrong
RRP: £12.99£9.00WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an... -
Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that inspired the film In the Heart of the Sea by Owen Chase
RRP: £9.99£2.91DON'T MISS THE MAJOR FILM INSPIRED BY CHASE'S NARRATIVE, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA On 20 November 1820, just south of the equator, the whaling ship Essex, spotted and pursued a shoal of sperm whales. As the crew started harpooning, the largest whale - some... -
With Scott in the Antarctic by Isobel Williams 9780752452463
RRP: £14.99£11.55Edward Wilson (1872-1912) accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on both his celebrated Antarctic voyages: the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Wilson served as Junior Surgeon and Zoologist on Discovery and, on this... -
West with the Light by Brian Jackman
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784778361Author Brian JackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel GuidesWeight(grams) 130g -
Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming 9781862075023 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.28The atlas of 1816 was littered with blanks. What was the North Pole? Was there a Northwest Passage? What lay at the heart of Africa? Did Antarctica exist? In his quest to find the answers to these questions, John Barrow, Second Secretary to the... -
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 9781035038558
RRP: £10.99£7.51Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the... -
Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham 9781842125854 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.43First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba,... -
Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham
RRP: £12.99£8.60First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba,... -
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
RRP: £12.99£8.56Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David... -
The Last Blue Mountain: The great Karakoram climbing tragedy by Ralph Barker
RRP: £12.99£9.70'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.'The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the... -
The Art of Exploration: Lessons in Curiosity, Leadership and Getting Things Done by Levison Wood
RRP: £16.99£11.54'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... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence 9780486821498
RRP: £8.49£6.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486821498Author T. E. LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst: Now Filmed As The Mercy by Nicholas Tomalin
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A masterpiece.' New Yorker'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday Times In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical... -
The Unofficial Countryside by Richard Mabey 9780956254559
RRP: £14.00£9.76During the early 1970s Richard Mabey set about mapping his unofficial countryside. He walked crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb sites, navigating inner city canals and car parks, exploring sewage works, gravel pits, rubbish tips. What he discovered... -
Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown by Benedict Allen
RRP: £10.99£7.32What does it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century? This is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet - at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote communities... -
Thunder and Sunshine: Riding Home from Patagonia by Alastair Humphreys 9781903070888
RRP: £9.99£7.11At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a tiny budget of just GBP7,000 (AU$15000). Thunder and Sunshine is... -
Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky by Homer Hickam
RRP: £20.00£17.58From Homer Hickam, the author of the #1 bestselling Rocket Boys adapted into the beloved film October Sky, comes this astonishing memoir of high adventure, war, love, NASA, and his struggle for literary success.Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the... -
Learning To Breathe by Andy Cave
RRP: £10.99£7.77At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit.But at weekends Andy escaped from the... -
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9781529369519
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Magnificent . . . The prose has the glorious turbulence and boil of the first two books, and the youthful magic of his 'dream-odyssey' ROBERT MACFARLANE, The Times'Vivid . . . full of fun, kindness, easy learning, sophistication and innocence . . . a... -
Squirting Milk at Chameleons: An Accidental African by Simon Fenton
RRP: £7.99£5.79The tale of an Englishman making a life for himself in Senegal. Khady pulled out a breast and with a deadly aim fired milk at the chameleon. "If I don't offer it milk, our son will grow up to look like a lizard," she explained. Clearly I had a lot to... -
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Ansel Adams
RRP: £13.99£11.83In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist, teacher, musician, and, above all, photographer. Written with characteristic warmth, vigour,... -
An Ode to Darkness by Sigri Sandberg
RRP: £12.99£8.60WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE THE STARS?'Look at a satellite image of the Earth. Where it was once as dark as night, it is now lit up like a Christmas tree. If you zoom in on a city, you'll see floodlights, neon lights, car lights, and streetlamps. If you zoom... -
Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon: Footsteps in the Forest by Sandra Knapp 9780565093303 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£3.00Alfred Russel Wallace is justly famous for his discoveries in Southeast Asia, from where he wrote to Charles Darwin outlining his theory of evolution by natural selection. His career as a tropical naturalist, however, began in the Amazon. Wallace... -
Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon: Footsteps in the Forest by Sandra Knapp 9780565093303
RRP: £8.99£6.45Alfred Russel Wallace is justly famous for his discoveries in Southeast Asia, from where he wrote to Charles Darwin outlining his theory of evolution by natural selection. His career as a tropical naturalist, however, began in the Amazon. Wallace... -
Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia by Wilfred Thesiger
RRP: £10.99£7.25Wilfred Thesiger, this century's greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia. Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled... -
Cape Horn: The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without a Port of Call by Bernard Moitessier 9781574091540
RRP: £12.99£9.61This is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the "logical route," because it was the fastest. Setting out from Tahiti, they make...