Expeditions & Discoveries

Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity...But was Troy an actual place or just a legend of Homer's epic? It took the most unlikely of people, Heinrich Schliemann - a grocer's-apprentice turned self-made archaeologist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789071238Author Allan F MurrayFormat PaperbackImprint AcairPublisher Acair

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692185216Author Becky VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Apologies 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 riveting detective story ... Revelation follows revelation.' - Benedict Allen, author, explorer and TV presenterJames Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754722Author Fridjtof NansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 638gDimensions(mm)...

As a boy growing up near Liverpool in the 1950s, Andrew Lees would visit the docks with his father to watch the ships from Brazil unload their exotic cargo of coffee, cotton bales, molasses, cocoa - the ships' names and goods noted down in loving detail...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648594703Author Luke RichmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Luke RichmondPublisher Luke RichmondWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910858196Author Lewis Grassic GibbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint JetstonePublisher JetstoneWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 21mm * 12mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316114592Author Robert LaceyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527271Author Matthew GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward - and some...

The 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...

In this paperback of his acclaimed and wide-ranging study, David Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might. Shortlisted for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature 2013 ...

The Last Days of Ernest Shackleton, is a unique and fully illustrated account of Shackleton's death and burial in South Georgia from the personal point of view of a seaman on the Quest Expedition by the name of George Ross. George joined the Quest...

Thailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there's much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize.A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at the country's last 250 years-from coups and violent...

This highly-illustrated volume, by bestselling author Richard Barber, shows how medieval princes proclaimed their special status through displays of magnificence. The book is stunning, in every respect, and will be the gold standard in its subject for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993395116Author Francisco SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Centrala LtdPublisher Centrala LtdWeight(grams) 555gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm *...

"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which...

Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic exploration of the world and the amazing events that Heyerdahl...

Ra is the story of Heyerdahl's voyage from North Africa to South America in a 45 ft papyrus boat modelled on those depicted in the pharoah's wall paintings. A violent storm ended the first expedition but within a year the seven men had embarked on their...

A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 metres above sea level on the China-Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the...

Ross 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...

"[M]arvelous and compelling..." - John Milloy, author of The Plains Cree and A National Crime As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides...

'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track... So it was with mine.'Fifty years ago the interior of Borneo was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343219Author John Christopher FineFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over...

For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the...

'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 ...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist 'A refreshing...

The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735241060Author Adam ShoaltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La. On November 5, 1942, a US cargo...

Edward 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...

Compelling stories of shipwreck, adventure, and death on the high seas, now back in print.The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of great colonial expansion, marked by a mercantile frenzy of ships carrying merchants, aristocrats,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370729Author Colin ThubronFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

A New York Times Bestseller.Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 years and grow to a massive 20 feet long...

"As someone who loves knowledge of timeless homesteading and survival skills, this book fascinated me. In addition to being an interesting read, the book could also serve as a preparedness manual." -Leon Patenburg, The Sportsman Pages blog The Alaska...

TWO MEN Tom Crean, the Kerryman, whose phenomenal feats of bravery in the unexplored Antarctic earned him a rare medal for valour, pinned on him by King George. Aidan Dooley, the Galway man, who rejected a job in the bank for a life on the stage. ONE...