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Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell 9781602399693
£11.70This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and... -
The Modern Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
RRP: £10.99£7.40Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved by the contemporary explorers who are showcased here. Most of the accounts are written by the explorers themselves, and they all vividly... -
THE HAUNTING OF SHARON RECTORY: Our Truth, Our Horror And Heartbreak by Emma Louise Tully 9781527257733
£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527257733Author Emma Louise TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Emma Louise TullyPublisher Emma Louise Tully -
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
RRP: £20.00£12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782069Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration by The Explorers Club 9781984859983
RRP: £30.00£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859983Author The Explorers ClubFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262785
RRP: £9.99£2.91'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Prester John: The History of the Legendary Patriarch and His Fabled Christian Kingdom in Africa by Charles River Editors 9781091887954
RRP: £11.14£9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781091887954Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 by Sandeep Jauhar
RRP: £9.99£6.41'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New... -
Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas
RRP: £16.99£14.61An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain... -
Ninety Degrees North: The Quest For The North Pole by Fergus Fleming 9781862075351 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.20In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an island of basalt in a warm crystal sea. Explorers who tried to penetrate the icy wastes failed or died. But after Sir John Franklin disappeared with all his men in... -
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Journey by Caroline Alexander 9780375404030
RRP: £30.00£23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Awards 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780375404030Author Caroline AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin 9780008333409
RRP: £10.99£7.25A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands... -
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Restall 9780195392296
RRP: £8.99£6.84With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the... -
Sherpa by Ankit Babu Adhikari
RRP: £20.00£18.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATUREChanging the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world.Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale... -
Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson 9781513208664
RRP: £9.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208664Author Matthew HensonFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his... -
Master Pongo: A Gorilla Conquers Europe by Mustafa Haikal 9780271082165
RRP: £24.95£21.99In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as "the most gigantic ape known to zoology." Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories... -
The Great Pyramid - The Inside Story: A Five Thousand Year Old Mystery Finally Solved by Robert Carson 9781482787344
RRP: £25.00£21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482787344Author Robert CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn
RRP: £22.00£15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563617Author Mary DearbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth
£22.90Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic... -
The Book Nobody Read by Owen Gingerich
RRP: £15.99£11.611543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the... -
The Vikings by Else Roesdahl
RRP: £10.99£7.77Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and... -
At the Coalface: The memoir of a pit nurse by Joan Hart 9780007596164
RRP: £10.99£8.29A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners' strike. ... -
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark by Tudor Parfitt 9780007262687
RRP: £12.99£9.70Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest. This is the real-life account of... -
The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: £25.00£16.78The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE... -
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
£27.10The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust... -
Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman shaped our Modern World by Brad Borkan 9781945312144
RRP: £12.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945312144Author Brad BorkanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
A Short History Of Polar Exploration by Nick Rennison 9781843440901
RRP: £12.99£2.91According to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised.' Despite this there has never been a shortage... -
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson 9780316703635
RRP: £16.99£11.27Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough... -
LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC: Photographs by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition by William Speirs Bruce
RRP: £20.00£18.81LIFE IN THE ANTARCTIC Photographs by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition,. William Bruce's Voyage of the 'Scotia' 1902 - 1904 Antarctic Expedition The publishers beg to draw particular note to the fact that the illustrations in this little book are all... -
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface by Ross E. Dunn 9780520272927
RRP: £30.00£23.29Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of... -
Never Quit: From Alaskan Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights as an Elite Special Ops Pj by Jimmy Settle
RRP: £12.99£12.27"That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving... -
Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight by Amy Shira Teitel 9781538716052
RRP: £17.99£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538716052Author Amy Shira TeitelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes 9780007476510
RRP: £12.99£9.70'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and fantasy - and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 ... -
I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford
RRP: £12.99£8.32'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times 'Shot through with crystalline brilliance.' Washington Post 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole,... -
Captain Shakespear: Desert exploration, Arabian intrigue and the rise of Ibn Sa'ud by Alan Dillon 9781911487333
RRP: £25.00£20.70Two years before T E Lawrence received orders to travel to the Hejaz to liaise with the leader of the Arab Revolt, other British officers had already roamed the Arabian Peninsula's unforgiving Nejdi desert, to rally tribal support for the British war... -
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado 9781400097692
RRP: £20.00£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781400097692Author Nando ParradoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor
RRP: £10.99£6.47The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the... -
A Rage To Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £19.99£14.35Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed... -
Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace by Julia Cooke
RRP: £16.99£11.58** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize-Winner, Malala Yousafzai **Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am...