Expeditions books

A really great read by a brave and honest man searching for a fascinating grail but fighting powerful personal demons...  Read More >>

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A work of an Englishman, a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration...  Read More >>

In 1610, the English mariner Henry Hudson set off on a journey to find the Northwest Passage, the water route that...  Read More >>

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The Irish have left an indelible mark in the most hostile territory on earth, Antarctica. It was the Irish who pioneered...  Read More >>

A classic of Canadian travel literature, No Passport is Quebecois novelist and broadcaster Eugène Cloutier's account...  Read More >>

Written in the same whimsical, entertaining style as 'The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower', 'Race to the Pole'...  Read More >>

Was George Mallory the first man to reach the summit of Everest? Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding embark on a death-defying...  Read More >>

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A wide-ranging narrative adventure through the coldest places, chilliest times and frostiest experiences on Earth...  Read More >>

In this book, first published in 1862, Edward Bean Underhill gives a very positive report on his visit to the West...  Read More >>

Written in 1855 from the unusual perspective of a freed slave turned linguist and clergyman, this eventful journal...  Read More >>

This book ties in with a major six part BBC2 series, Ray Mears heads into the wilds of Canada, bringing us a unique...  Read More >>

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With more than 2,000 km of treacherous seas and dangerously unpredictable weather and currents, not to mention the...  Read More >>

The gripping story of the worst ever catastrophe in British exploration, and the captain at the heart of it.  Read More >>

The untold story of Scott's Northern Party and their incredible survival of an Antarctic winter  Read More >>

Was American Richard Byrd really the first to fly to the North Pole? And why did enigmatic Australian explorer Sir...  Read More >>

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In connection with the world-famous American Museum of Natural History: the gripping true story of the race to the...  Read More >>

A unique collection of essays accompany Wilfred Thesiger’s own personal photographs of the Africa he experienced...  Read More >>

Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results...  Read More >>

Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, Tom Crean, Tim McCarthy and two other crewmen sailed 800 miles in the James Caird,...  Read More >>

Algeria is bigger than Western Europe but the Sahara's landscapes are known to few. This book features photographs...  Read More >>