True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

Addressing, for the first time, the enigma of how Franz Boas came to be the central founder of anthropology and...  Read More >>

The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson,...  Read More >>

The memoir of a young girls experiences in the Antarctic whaling community of South Georgia. It is a story of love...  Read More >>

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Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an...  Read More >>

In a world dominated by shallow celebrity, many remarkable people often remain unknown and unrecognised. This book...  Read More >>

Exploration has never been more popular and any idea that there is nowhere left to explore is instantly disproved...  Read More >>

In a world dominated by shallow celebrity, many remarkable people often remain unknown and unrecognised. This book...  Read More >>

William de Breos rose to a position of great power and influence as a close confidant of King John, but when his...  Read More >>

On 2 June 2006, a team of three gliders, one chase plane, support crew and all-terrain vehicles gathered at a dusty...  Read More >>

Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the...  Read More >>

Al Venter regards himself an African - a 'white' African, but as much a part of the fascinating and often troubled...  Read More >>

In 1895 Mark Twain conducted a year-long around-the-world lecture tour that formed the basis for Following the Equator....  Read More >>

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Denial, Deceit, Discovery is the heart-rending story based on true events in the life of Jack Ellis; a young Catholic...  Read More >>

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At dawn on 27 April 1789 Fletcher Christian, master's mate on HMS Bounty, took a coconut to quench his thirst from...  Read More >>

The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration....  Read More >>

John Snow was a Victorian physician who helped to establish that cholera was spread by contaminated water (not bad...  Read More >>

Al Venter has been free-diving (without cages) with sharks for fourty years and has had three of his friends killed...  Read More >>

Retired senior advocate Chris Marnewick's fascinating investigation of a crime case that, 60 years after the event,...  Read More >>

The first paperback edition of this popular favourite commemorates the 90th birthday of Emily Pankhurst, wife and...  Read More >>