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Instead: The Sometimes Complicated Choice of an Adventurous, Childfree Life by Maria Coffey 9781771606400
RRP: €23.79€19.54Apologies 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: €29.75€3.33Sir 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: €17.84€11.34David 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: €15.46€10.71WARRIOR. 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: €11.89€3.46DON'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: €17.84€13.74Edward 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: €11.89€8.09Apologies 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 -
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 9781035038558
RRP: €13.08€8.94Jon 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: €15.46€2.73First 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: €15.46€10.23First 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: €15.46€10.19Between 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: €15.46€11.54'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: €20.22€13.73'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: €10.10€7.28Apologies 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: €11.89€8.09'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: €16.66€11.61During 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: €13.08€8.71What 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: €11.89€8.46At 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: €23.80€20.92From 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: €13.08€9.25At 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: €20.22€13.73'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: €9.51€6.89The 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: €16.65€16.62In 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: €15.46€10.23WHEN 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
RRP: €10.70€7.68Alfred 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: €13.08€8.63Wilfred 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: €15.46€11.44This 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... -
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica by David G Campbell 9780618219216
RRP: €26.17€18.66Apologies 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 -
Scallywag - My Duvet Diva: A doggy life lived to the full, ashore and afloat by Christopher Weedon
RRP: €10.70€9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398453630Author Christopher WeedonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Shining Mountain: The first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang by Peter Boardman
RRP: €11.89€8.65'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.'So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang... -
Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea by Gertrude Bell
RRP: €17.84€13.98Gertrude Bell's fascinating account of a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment of Persia. 'Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who danced with you... -
The Philosophy of an Explorer: 16 Life-lessons from Surviving the Extreme by Erling Kagge
RRP: €10.70€7.04'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... -
The Fight for Everest 1924 by E. F. Norton 9781910240397
RRP: €28.56€23.70In 1924 Mount Everest remained unclimbed. Two British expeditions had already tackled what was known to be the highest mountain on Earth. The first, in 1921, found a route to the base. The second, in 1922, attempted the summit, reaching a record height... -
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell
€13.42Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve out a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles Korth's amazing life and adventures, creating a... -
Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer by Michael Smith 9781780747071
RRP: €15.46€11.45Ernest Shackleton is one of history's great explorers, an extraordinary character who pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago and became a dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. A charismatic personality, his incredible adventures on... -
Woman with the Iceberg Eyes: Oriana F. Wilson by Katherine MacInnes 9780750991537
RRP: €23.80€20.03Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic, the most famous story of exploration in the world, played out on the great ice stage in the south. Oriana Wilson, wife of Scott's best friend and fellow explorer Dr Edward Wilson, was watching from the wings... -
Bridging Our Differences by Gerry S M Hughes 9781789557732
RRP: €23.79€13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789557732Author Gerry S M HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 599g -
Ghosts of K2: The Race for the Summit of the World's Most Deadly Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: €15.46€11.45K2 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... -
Mind of a Survivor: What the wild has taught me about survival and success by Megan Hine
RRP: €11.89€8.09***Shortlisted for the Great Outdoors Book of the Year***Surviving in the wild takes a great deal of strength. Often faced with frozen tundra, sweltering deserts, humid jungles, perilous mountains and fast-flowing rivers, Megan Hine is no stranger to... -
The Outdoors Fix: Stories to inspire you to make the outdoors a bigger part of your life by Liv Bolton
RRP: €23.80€17.23Do 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...