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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. 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Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. 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Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... 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Quick view Details sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. 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A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 85029K Nathaniel Philbrick / Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-1842 The expeditions of Magellan, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark have been well documented and are instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in world history. But the average person is likely unaware of the U.S. Exploring Expedition or its... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... 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Quick view Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 73576K Fergus Fleming / Barrow's Boys There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73184K Robert Macfarlane / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering' Roger Deakin Once we thought monsters lived there... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: VP2626 Duncan Pryde / Nunaga - Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: VP2531 Alan Blackshaw / Mountaineering (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: X87528K Wallace Clark / The Call of the Running Tide (Large Paperback) This book spans the full range of Wallace Clark's sailing endeavours, from boyhood adventures on local dams and rivers to his last trip, a voyage in the Adriatic in 2010 when he was in his eighty-fourth year. It tells of visits to creeks, islets, secret... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... 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Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: nN589K Robert D. Ballard & Rick Archbold / The Discovery of the Bismarck (Coffee Table Book) Three miles beneath the Atlantic a feared Nazi warship stands proudly defiant.... Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 71995H Sarah Murgatroyd / The Dig Tree : The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills 1860 Expedition In 1860, Australia remained the truly dark continent. Although there were European settlements in its south, much of the north remained unknown and dangerous. But things were changing. On 20th August, 1860, The Victorian Exploring Expedition left... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76823H Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83817K Trevor Norton / Stars Beneath the Sea: The Extraordinary Lives of the Pioneers of Diving (Hardback) This is a remarkable true story of some of the brave, brilliant and often barmy men that 'invented' diving. It is a story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus. The book reveals... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X83808K Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88984H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. 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