Expeditions books

Presents the story of the early exploration of the Sahara Desert and the first motorised crossing of the Sahara...  Read More >>

William Dampier was a sea captain, scientific observer, plantation manager - and a pirate. This account of his journey...  Read More >>

Talks about Major Alexander Gordon Laing's trek across Sahara, who was the first white man in centuries to reach...  Read More >>

The search for the North West Passage, the fabled northern route to the Orient, took many lives, including the entire...  Read More >>

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Mrs Billy Connolly/ Pamela Stephenson follows in the footsteps of Fanny Stevenson, maverick wife of the even more...  Read More >>

In 1954, an Italian expedition climbed K2, the world's second highest mountain and arguably the most difficult of...  Read More >>

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In a unique television experiment, two teams led by the Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes and the television anthropologist...  Read More >>

This book is about Wegener's explorations of Greenland, blending the science of ice ages and Wegener's continental...  Read More >>

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In 1800 Francois Peron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army,...  Read More >>

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A rip-roaring tale of modern day piracy on the high seas and one of the longest and most dangerous pursuits in maritime...  Read More >>

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians...  Read More >>

In 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike was assigned to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers....  Read More >>

The Discovery of Guiana from Walter Raleigh. Writer, poet, spy, and explorer (1554-1618).  Read More >>

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This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant...  Read More >>

1606 marked the first European sighting of Australia, when the Dutch ship Duyfken landed on Cape York. This book...  Read More >>

Presents an account of British military operations against Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet, Bhutan, the tribes of Assam and...  Read More >>

Presents the history of the three Burmese Wars.  Read More >>

The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6  Read More >>

Jean-François De Galup, Comte De La Pérouse is second only to James Cook in his historical significance and was...  Read More >>

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