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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30726K Chris Bonington / Boundless Horizons (Hardback) Individually the three volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography are collector’s items. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30726K Chris Bonington / Boundless Horizons (Hardback) Individually the three volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography are collector’s items. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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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: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30726K Chris Bonington / Boundless Horizons (Hardback) Individually the three volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography are collector’s items. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 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 sku: MED1133 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... 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MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5233K Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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... 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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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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Here they are brought together in a value-for-money omnibus. I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29814K Clint Willis / The Boys of Everest (Large Paperback) The Boys of Everest: The Tragic Story of Climbing's Greatest Generation Clint Willis Telling the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent, this title... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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Here they are brought together in a value-for-money omnibus. I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29814K Clint Willis / The Boys of Everest (Large Paperback) The Boys of Everest: The Tragic Story of Climbing's Greatest Generation Clint Willis Telling the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent, this title... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29814K Clint Willis / The Boys of Everest (Large Paperback) The Boys of Everest: The Tragic Story of Climbing's Greatest Generation Clint Willis Telling the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent, this title... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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... 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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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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... 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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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. 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MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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. 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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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW30726K Chris Bonington / Boundless Horizons (Hardback) Individually the three volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography are collector’s items. Here they are brought together in a value-for-money omnibus. I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29814K Clint Willis / The Boys of Everest (Large Paperback) The Boys of Everest: The Tragic Story of Climbing's Greatest Generation Clint Willis Telling the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent, this title... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... 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Quick view sku: wW30726K Chris Bonington / Boundless Horizons (Hardback) Individually the three volumes of Chris Bonington’s autobiography are collector’s items. Here they are brought together in a value-for-money omnibus. I Chose to Climb, was published in 1966 and told of his initiation into mountaineering,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29814K Clint Willis / The Boys of Everest (Large Paperback) The Boys of Everest: The Tragic Story of Climbing's Greatest Generation Clint Willis Telling the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent, this title... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: wW29814K Clint Willis / The Boys of Everest (Large Paperback) The Boys of Everest: The Tragic Story of Climbing's Greatest Generation Clint Willis Telling the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent, this title... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5233K Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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. 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Quick view sku: rR34347K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: wW25682K Stephen E. Ambrose / Undaunted Courage (Hardback) 'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5233K Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... 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Quick view sku: aA6907K Bear Grylls / Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From The Most Dangerous Places On Earth (Coffee Table Book) Born Survival' provides SAS techniques on how to stay alive in the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5233K Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: wW24539K Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback) The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He designed the canoes which were used in the operation, he recruited and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5233K Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: wW24278K Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback) One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5233K Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA5233K Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: Col1637 Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection) A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection) Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA4204K Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book) Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA3888K Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book) Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA3669K Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book) Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA3668K Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book) Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA3651K Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book) The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA3649K Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book) Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
SALE Quick view sku: wW8315K John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback) John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: MED3331 Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10209K Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback) Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9998K Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback) The ultimate survival guide for any situation. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
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Quick view sku: wW26616H Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback) The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
SALE Quick view sku: wW9914K Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback) Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: aA2868K Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: aA2825K Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book) David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
SALE Quick view sku: wW1030K,wW4449H Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback) A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
SALE Quick view sku: X99354K Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback) The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering,... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X98704K Robin Knox-Johnston / World of My Own (Large Paperback) On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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 O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091,MED5409,MED5410 Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: 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: 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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 sku: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: MED1133 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 SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
SALE Quick view sku: wW22648H 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: €3.95 Was: €3.95 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: 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: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. 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The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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: MED1027,MED1853 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: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
SALE 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW19268H 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: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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SALE 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: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW26269H Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback) One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
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Quick view sku: rR31123H 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: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) The summit of K2. 1st August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered the world's most lethal mountain. But as they celebrate, far below them an ice shelf collapses and... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 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
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