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Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition by Michael Smith
RRP: $20.63$16.22Captain 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... -
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu Laurence Bergreen 9781847247674
RRP: $19.34$12.96In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Among the... -
My Outdoor Life: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Ray Mears 9781444778212 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95'If Ray Mears isn't a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough-Bellamy tradition.' - Robert Crampton, The TimesRay Mears is a household name through his television... -
My Outdoor Life: The Sunday Times Bestseller Ray Mears 9781444778212
RRP: $16.76$11.39'If Ray Mears isn't a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough-Bellamy tradition.' - Robert Crampton, The TimesRay Mears is a household name through his television... -
Hard Lying: Eastern Mediterranean, 1914-1919 Lewen Weldon 9781780601991
RRP: $19.34$12.96Lewen Weldon was mapping the eastern desert of Egypt when World War I broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was recruited to run a network of spies and confidential agents who were landed from a steam yacht onto the Syrian coast behind Turkish lines. He... -
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $19.34$12.26Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... -
Beyond The Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9780316854580 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25$3.61Sir 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... -
A Sea Vagabond's World: Boats and Sails, Distant Shores, Islands and Lagoons by Bernard Moitessier 9781493042807
RRP: $19.34$15.09"I would like now to write a practical book that will cover three topics: boats, the sea, and the beachcombing life." These were the thought of Bernard Moitessier after he finished writing his last book, Tamata and the Alliance, while in Polynesia. ... -
Darkness Descending Ken Jones 9781782066026
RRP: $16.76$11.39An 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... -
Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that inspired the film In the Heart of the Sea by Owen Chase
RRP: $12.89$3.88DON'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... -
Endurance: SAS Soldier. Polar Adventurer. Decorated Leader by Louis Rudd 9781529031768 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60$2.92'Gripping pulse-racing adventure by a true legend. Louis Rudd's courage and determination is admirable' - Andy McNab_____________________In 2018 Captain Louis Rudd MBE walked into the history books when he finished a solo, unsupported crossing of... -
Endurance: SAS Soldier. Polar Adventurer. Decorated Leader by Louis Rudd
RRP: $11.60$8.77'Gripping pulse-racing adventure by a true legend. Louis Rudd's courage and determination is admirable' - Andy McNab_____________________In 2018 Captain Louis Rudd MBE walked into the history books when he finished a solo, unsupported crossing of... -
Dancing with Death: An Inspiring Real-Life Story of Epic Travel Adventure by Jean-Philippe Soule 9780984344840
RRP: $24.50$17.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984344840Author Jean-Philippe SouleFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Native Planet AdventuresPublisher Native Planet AdventuresWeight(grams) 152g -
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andre Resendez
$22.50In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their... -
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
RRP: $16.76$11.35Between 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... -
Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man's Battle to Beat the Bends by Mark Cowan
RRP: $32.25$22.51'One of the best accounts ever written of deep-water diving and its staggering, haunting dangers' Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow DiversDeep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the... -
How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest?: Explore Earth's Most Extreme Places Through Sight, Sound, Smell, Touch and Taste Leisa Stewart-Sharpe 9781526363077
RRP: $19.34$13.48Don't get too comfortable. This isn't the type of book you can snuggle up with under the covers. Not even close! You're off on the expedition of a lifetime to experience the sights, sounds, smells, feelings and tastes of the world's most extreme places... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia Robert Macklin 9781472140692
RRP: $19.34$12.96'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
RRP: $16.76$12.05The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books... -
The Unofficial Countryside Richard Mabey 9780956254559
RRP: $18.06$12.93During 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... -
Thunder and Sunshine: Riding Home from Patagonia by Alastair Humphreys 9781903070888
RRP: $12.89$9.44At 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... -
One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits Adam Skolnick 9781472152015
RRP: $19.34$12.96Telling the unforgettable story of America's greatest Freediver, One Breath is a gripping and unforgettable read for anyone captivated by Netflix's The Deepest Breath.Competitive freediving-a sport built on diving as deep as possible on a single... -
Survival Is Not Assured: The Life of Climber Jim Donini by Geoff Powter 9781680515374
RRP: $29.61$19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680515374Author Geoff PowterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers Books -
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama by Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780521646291
RRP: $39.98$34.61Vasco da Gama (?1469-1524) is well known as one of a generation of discoverers, along with Magellan, Cabral, and Columbus. Yet little is known about his life, or about the context within which he 'discovered' the all-sea route to India in 1497-99. This... -
You Can't Win by Jack Black 9781936239610
RRP: $24.50$17.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239610Author Jack BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 566g -
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Great Mountaineering Classic by Hermann Buhl 9781910240588
RRP: $16.76$10.90'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... -
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson 9781408837153
RRP: $24.50$16.10SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA 2024 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN 'The zigzagging life of an adventurer' GUARDIAN 'An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm 'Exciting and complex, full... -
Ghosts of K2: The Race for the Summit of the World's Most Deadly Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: $16.76$12.05K2 is almost 800ft shorter than Everest, yet it's a far harder climb. Many great mountaineers became obsessed with reaching its summit, not all of them lived to tell of their adventures. Capturing the depth of their obsession, the heart-stopping tension... -
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett 9781910723432
RRP: $25.80$18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723432Author Jim CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 541gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet by Jenny Graham
$22.74A 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,... -
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica by David G Campbell 9780618219216
RRP: $28.37$20.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618219216Author David G CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386g -
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin 9781474625838
RRP: $14.18$9.82'Hemingway's world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting . . . This stuff was too good to be wasted on school exams. I must be bold and fearless and go out there and do it myself'Join Michael Palin as he journeys from... -
Something Wholesale by Eric Newby
RRP: $14.18$9.62Veteran 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... -
The Philosophy of an Explorer: 16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme by Erling Kagge
RRP: $11.60$7.88'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton ____________________________Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than Erling Kagge, who was the first man in history to reach all of the... -
Moonwalker: Adventures of a Midnight Mountaineer by Alan Rowan
RRP: $12.89$9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909430174Author Alan RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint BackPage Press LimitedPublisher BackPage Press Limited -
Mission: Possible: A decade of living dangerously by Ash Dykes
RRP: $12.89$9.30At the age of 23, Ash Dykes became the first person to walk, solo and unsupported, across Mongolia.His journey took 78 days and saw him trek over the Altai Mountains, the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian Steppe. It was an expedition filled with danger and... -
The Hard Years by Joe Brown
RRP: $16.76$11.39The autobiography of one of the greatest names in mountain climbing.Joe Brown is one of the greatest names in British climbing. This book not only describes his many notable climbs, but reveals a most engaging personality with a highly interesting... -
The Outdoors Fix: Stories to inspire you to make the outdoors a bigger part of your life by Liv Bolton
RRP: $25.80$18.68Do you wish you could make the outdoors a bigger part of your life? Liv Bolton, host of the chart-topping podcast The Outdoors Fix, presents an inspiring collection of stories about ordinary people who have done just that. By making time for their... -
The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt by Randall Sullivan 9780802126931
RRP: $25.79$18.29From longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have tried and failed to unlock its secrets. An investigation... -
The Crossing: Sir Vivian Fuchs, Sir Edmund Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1953-58 by John Knight
RRP: $25.80$18.00The Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1953-58 organised and led by Sir Vivian Fuchs and supported by Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the most extraordinary exploits ever undertaken in Antarctica - but it has been underappreciated. On the sixtieth anniversary...