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Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun: The Kon-Tiki Museum Archive by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £29.45An archival delve into the remarkable life, expeditions and voyages of Thor Heyerdahl, author of the bestselling adventure classic The Kon-Tiki Expedition Norwegian archaeologist, anthropologist,... -
In The Footsteps Of Adam by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85Thor 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... -
The Ra Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 9780006545309
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.03Ra 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... -
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.89About 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... -
Green Was The Earth On The Seventh Day by Thor Heyerdahl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85In the late 1930s, Thor Heyerdahl left his home in Norway and set off with his new wife for paradise. Fulfilling a long-held ambition to return to nature, the couple sought, and to a degree found, a... -
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Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day by Thor Heyerdahl 9780316882279 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.54In the late-1930s, the young Heyerdahl set out with his new wife for paradise - a natural, unspoiled world they sought and, to a degree, found in the South Pacific. It would be the first of many... -
Kon Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl 9780671726522
Booksplease Price: £5.37Photographs illustrate the author's account of his voyage from Peru to Tahiti on a balsa raft to test a theory concerning the origins of the Polynesian race.Book InformationISBN 9780671726522Author... -
Study Guide to Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdahl by Intelligent Education 9781645425045
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645425045Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Influence... -
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A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition by Axel Andersson 9781906165314
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £29.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906165314Author Axel AnderssonFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter... -
The Greatest Adventure Stories Ever Told: Nineteen Gripping Tales Lamar Underwood 9781493086511
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.24In the gripping tale "Love of Life," told as only Jack London could tell it, a starving prospector fights for life in the rugged Yukon; in "Typhoon," Joseph Conrad takes us out to sea where a lonely... -
Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands: Early Writings of Sir Arthur Grimble by Rosemary Grimble 9780415758819
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This book is a collection of Arthur Grimble's field notes and early writings, brought together in book form with linking pieces and a large number of illustrations. There are chapters on cannibalism... -
Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands: Early Writings of Sir Arthur Grimble by Rosemary Grimble
Booksplease Price: £223.30This book is a collection of Arthur Grimble's field notes and early writings, brought together in book form with linking pieces and a large number of illustrations. There are chapters on cannibalism... -
Adventures in Archaeology: The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations by P.J. Capelotti 9780813064840
Booksplease Price: £27.20Discover a little-known world of archaeology Wrecked aircraft and abandoned airfields, old highway billboards and derelict boats, movie props, deserted mining operations. In this book, archaeologist... -
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.66From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans'... -
Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers by Alastair Humphreys
Booksplease Price: £7.72** WINNER OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY CHILDREN'S TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 AND LONG-LISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019**Hand-picked by adventurer Alastair Humphreys, this compilation retells the... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.73Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and... -
Quest for Adventure: Remarkable feats of exploration and adventure by Sir Chris Bonington 9781911342717
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.71Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's... -
Sail Away by Lena Lencek 9781569245842
Booksplease Price: £16.27Something happens when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. Now Sail Away brings together the very finest writing about... -
The Amazing World of Flyingfish by Steve N. G. Howell 9780691160115
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.93If you travel the open ocean anywhere in the tropics, you are very likely to see flyingfish. These beautifully colored "ocean butterflies" shoot out of the water and sail on majestic, winglike... -
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Survivor: The Autobiography by Jon E. Lewis 9781849018180 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.25This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th century, in a... -
Visitors to Ancient America: The Evidence for European and Asian Presence in America Prior to Columbus by William F. McNeil 9780786419173
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.95Researchers in American anthropology and archaeology from the late seventeenth century to the present - including Cotton Mather, John Wesley Powell, Thor Heyerdahl, and Betty Meggers, among others -... -
Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches That Moved the World by Alon Tal 9780813537276
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.68Over the past thirty years, an astonishingly diverse set of issues has been addressed under the umbrella of the environmental movement. In Speaking of Earth, Alon Tal brings together twenty... -
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The Age of Treachery by Gavin Scott 9781783297801 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.37It is 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a hated... -
Migrations in Prehistory by Irving Rouse 9780300045048
Booksplease Price: £25.62Archaeologists have developed various methods of studying cultural remains to infer population movement and other kinds of migration. Irving Rouse, author of much distinguished work in this field,... -
People of the Sea James Wharram 9781907206580
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.08Long before Western man 'discovered' them, the 'People of the Sea', as many inhabitants of the South Pacific called themselves, had a vibrant, socially sophisticated culture in which travel on water... -
The Old Man and the Sea: A True Story of Crossing the Atlantic by Raft Anthony Smith 9781472121134
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Octogenarian Anthony Smith's journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible story of the survivors of a 1940 boat disaster, who... -
Eight Men And A Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island by Nick J. Thorpe 9780349114545
Booksplease Price: £17.32Nick Thorpe was innocently travelling around South America with his wife, Ali, when he came across an American adventurer planning to sail from Chile to Easter Island on a Bolivian boat made of reeds... -
The Little Blue Book of Sailing Wisdom by Stephen Brennan 9781628737622
Booksplease Price: £15.38"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in... -
The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World by Peder Anker
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £72.27What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they...