Expeditions books

Though intended only for the eyes of his beloved in England, this diary written by James Bell, sailor on the voyage...  Read More >>

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In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the...  Read More >>

The Search for Legendary Kingdoms in the Exploration of the Americas For half a millennium, legends of vast treasures-El...  Read More >>

John Lort Stokes (1812–85) was an officer on H.M.S. Beagle - the ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin....  Read More >>

Twenty-five years ago, a young curator of mammals from the Australian Museum in Sydney set out to research the fauna...  Read More >>

From the bestselling author of ""Stanley"" comes a riveting account of the explorers who risked everything in their...  Read More >>

Hardback pictorial. Travel the World's Most Spectacular Routes. Have you dreamed of a travel experience where the...  Read More >>

Many of us are just awakening to the astonishing fact that uncontacted tribes continue to inhabit the far reaches...  Read More >>

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early...  Read More >>

A century after Amundsen's triumph and Scott's tragedy, our fascination with Antarctica remains as acute as ever....  Read More >>

A compelling account of an expedition undertaken by wildlife expert J. Stokley Ligon in 1913, when he traveled alone...  Read More >>

In 1818 the diplomat Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) published this history of Arctic exploration from the Viking period...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1900, this biography of English explorer William Cotton Oswell (1818–93) was compiled by...  Read More >>

David Livingstone (1813–73) was a nineteenth-century British explorer and missionary. His 1866 search for the source...  Read More >>

David Livingstone (1813–73) was a nineteenth-century British explorer and missionary. His 1866 search for the source...  Read More >>

John Miers' Travels in Chile (1826) is the account of his travels and residence in Chile between 1818 and 1825 and...  Read More >>

First published in 1876, this two-volume work describes two expeditions in West Africa undertaken by explorer and...  Read More >>

Leopold von Buch (1774–1853) was a German scientist who travelled to Scandinavia in 1806–1808 to research the region's...  Read More >>

In this unique study, first published in 1893, the conservationist Frederic Courteney Selous documents his eleven-year...  Read More >>

Scott's Last Expedition tells the story of the historic and momentous Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole, the...  Read More >>

Christopher Columbus and his lesser known rival, fellow Italian explorer for hire John Cabot, were both searching...  Read More >>

This 1865 publication describes the many difficulties encountered by Livingstone's unsuccessful expedition up the...  Read More >>

This two-volume work, published in 1831, describes an expedition in support of the North-West Passage exploration...  Read More >>