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Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own... -
Nansen: The Explorer as Hero by Roland Huntford
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them... -
Two Planks and a Passion by Roland Huntford 9781441134011
Booksplease Price: £21.25Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This is brilliantly brought to life in this engaging book. Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the... -
Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own... -
Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford 9780349113951
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning... -
Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing by Roland Huntford 9781847252364
Booksplease Price: £55.74Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This is brilliantly brought to life in this engaging book. Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the... -
Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford
Booksplease Price: £14.71For 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... -
Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford 9780349113951 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning... -
Life's Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World by Arne Naess 9780820332529
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £26.41Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess' meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to preserve the environment and biodiversity. Now in his nineties, Naess offers a bright and bold perspective on... -
The First Crossing of Greenland: The Daring Expedition That Launched Artic Exploration by Fridtjof Nansen 9781783342303
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.89Before Fridtjof Nansen's Greenland expedition of 1888, the vast impenetrable arctic regions exasperated nineteenth-century scientists. The twenty-six-year-old thought he knew better. Convinced that... -
Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9780340826997 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.55Sir 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... -
Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Sir 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... -
Icebound by Andrea Pitzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An epic tale of exploration, daring and tragedy told by a fine historian - and a wonderful writer' - Peter Frankopan, author of the bestselling The Silk Roads. 'The name of William Barents isn't... -
The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912: 1910-1912 by Captian Roald Amundsen 9780814706985
Booksplease Price: £31.58Before Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic waters in 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen led a courageous team through ice-chocked waters to become the first expedition to reach the South... -
Skiing into the Bright Open: My Solo Journey to the South Pole by Liv Arnesen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there At home in Norway it is eight o'clock on Christmas Eve night, but ahead, at the Amundsen-Scott base that has... -
Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism by Stephanie Barczewski 9781847251923
Booksplease Price: £71.19This book covers the two most famous expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration: Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition of...