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A Knock at the Door by Rob Parsons 9780008708665
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.40'An incredible read. I laughed, I cried and my heart was truly touched by this beautifully written true story of hope and humanity at its best.' Rosemary Conley CBE 'An extraordinary story. Truly Inspirational' Tim Vine ... -
Starlight and Storm: The Conquest of the Great North Faces of the Alps by Gaston Rebuffat 9780375755064
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755064Author Gaston RebuffatFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox by Andrew Cohen
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.15Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. ... -
A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham by Steve Kemper
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.80Frederick Russell Burnham's (1861-1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as "the... -
Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.83Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through; he has suffered... -
Discovering Somers Isles: A Guide to Bermuda's History 1500-1615 by John M Archer 9780996345552
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996345552Author John M ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Maury BooksPublisher Maury BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon 9780008531775
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.64Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was... -
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs,... -
Longitude by Dava Sobel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.69The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong... -
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn 9781982186111
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.31“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and... -
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.17THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read ... Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ ... -
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Booksplease Price: $7.34Discover the truth about ENDURANCE in this superb true story of adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas.'Superb ... the greatest survival story of all time' Sir Chris Bonington'One of the most remarkable tales of human courage and... -
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross 9781541674196
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674196Author Edward ShawcrossFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 161mm * 30mm -
River Kings: A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.47THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021 'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell 'This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly composed and exquisitely performed' THE TIMES Books of the Year ... -
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering Daniel Light 9780861548163
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.12The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering. 'A beautifully written and sure-footed history of mountaineering "before Everest", full of wonderful stories and... -
You’re the Captain: Pit Your Wits Against the World’s Airline Pilots Flightradar24 9780008712624
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.80The first ever puzzle book from Flightradar24 At any one time there are nearly 20,000 flights in the sky, and more than 75 million flights a year - and, since 2006, the website Flightradar24 has kept its beady eye on them all. For the first... -
Snow White with the Red Hair, Vol. 22 by Sorata Akiduki
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.69A romantic retelling of a classic fairy tale about a beautiful herbalist and a lovestruck prince.Shirayuki is an herbalist famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! The prince from the neighboring... -
True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World by Jessica Watson 9781451616316
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451616316Author Jessica WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358299288Author Steven StrogatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 137mm *... -
Children of Ash and ELM: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price 9780465096985
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $30.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465096985Author Neil PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Booksplease Price: $7.34'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian Bruce Chatwin sets off on a... -
The Last Overland: 21,000 km, 23 Countries and One Very Old Land Rover by Alex Bescoby
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* NOW A MAJOR DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON ALL 4 *'This is a fabulous adventure - reckless, insanely ambitious and filled with sweat, tears and laughter ... irresistible reading.' Joanna... -
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062691552Author Jill HeinerthFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it by Dr Julia Grace Patterson 9780008603496
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.44The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NHS is an institution. But it’s also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for the past 75 years. It’s a burden to some and a... -
The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.17The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth... -
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.85About the AuthorThor Heyerdahl was born in Norway in 1914. He received the Order of Merit or similar decorations from Peru, Italy, Egypt, Morocco, Bulgaria, Norway and Sweden. He wrote many books on early travel and sea exploration. He died in April 2002... -
The Travels by Marco Polo
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.94A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271... -
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $16.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062060884Author Christina ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton 9780340696767
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.38THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday 'Once embarked upon the journey of the book, one is loath, sometimes unable to turn back' Sunday... -
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Andrea di Robilant 9780857891792
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.15'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new... -
The Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.51One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the... -
The Universe by Andrew Cohen
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.26Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. ... -
The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650 by J. H. Parry
Booksplease Price: $30.04The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when... -
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.61'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsIn The Map of... -
Around the World in 80 Years: A Life of Exploration by Ranulph Fiennes 9781399729734
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $21.13A CELEBRATION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF 'THE WORLD'S GREATEST LIVING EXPLORER' PRAISE FOR SIR RANULPH FIENNES:'Always that little bit further and always the best. It is why, even to this day, I remain in awe at all he has accomplished... -
A World Lit Only by Fire by W MANCHESTER 9780316545310
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $27.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316545310Author W MANCHESTERFormat HardbackImprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 643g -
I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.02'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,... -
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Between 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... -
Captain James Cook by Richard Hough
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.93In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its... -
Espana: A Brief History of Spain by Giles Tremlett
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.61Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles. 'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy...