Expeditions books

Savage Arena is an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path. Tasker vividly describes...  Read More >>

Following a remarkable year of climbing, Peter Boardman's last book Sacred Summits recounts his trips to the South...  Read More >>

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This describes the author's adventures in Iceland, East Africa, Nigeria and Indonesia from the late 1960s to the...  Read More >>

Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime on Charles Darwin’s ship. But after being shipwrecked on a Galapagos...  Read More >>

Walking the Camino de Santiago becomes a story about people, love, adventure, escapism, charity and friendships....  Read More >>

A powerful visual journey of discovery of the outdoors created by the editors of Rucksack Magazine featuring stories,...  Read More >>

Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history's most feared and misunderstood voyageurs:...  Read More >>

A bold adventurer sets out alone to ski to the South Pole and back across the icy wastelands of Antarctica while...  Read More >>

A fast-paced account of the year Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the...  Read More >>

In 1976, areas of the great mountain regions remained unknown and acute mountain sickness was a medical mystery...  Read More >>

In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden...  Read More >>

Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. Nine Lives traces the story...  Read More >>

Set against the backdrop of a China devastated by invading Japanese armies and the storm clouds of world war gathering...  Read More >>

A 4,000-kilometre journey exploring a little-known network uniting highways, back roads, forests, parks, rivers,...  Read More >>

Dreams as R-evolution is both the catalogue for an art installation of the same name, and a work of art itself....  Read More >>

In this book published in 1876 William Lord Watts (1850-1921) tells the story of his historic trek across Vatnajokull,...  Read More >>

Julius Beerbohm (1854-1906) was a Victorian travel writer, engineer, and explorer whose family members included...  Read More >>

Highlighting the true heroism of Antarctic explorers, the dangers they face and the equipment used to prevail  Read More >>

In 1820, after millennia spent speculating and searching, humans laid eyes on Antarctica for the very first time....  Read More >>

On 25 January 2018, Élisabeth Revol and her climbing partner Tomasz Mackiewicz summited Nanga Parbat, the killer...  Read More >>

The Journals of Lewis and Clark document an expedition across the United States as commissioned by President Jefferson....  Read More >>

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

The recent discovery and filming of Frankin's HMS 'Terror' has brought the tragic story of the expedition into the...  Read More >>

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