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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5814K Ernest Shackleton / South: The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition (Coffee Table Book) South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of the... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5678K Ray Mears / Wild Food (Coffee Table Book) Ray Mears has travelled the world to see how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. What's always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves--and what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5814K Ernest Shackleton / South: The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition (Coffee Table Book) South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of the... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5678K Ray Mears / Wild Food (Coffee Table Book) Ray Mears has travelled the world to see how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. What's always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves--and what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were... 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Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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He needed "something to pare... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5814K Ernest Shackleton / South: The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition (Coffee Table Book) South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of the... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5678K Ray Mears / Wild Food (Coffee Table Book) Ray Mears has travelled the world to see how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. What's always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves--and what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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. 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... 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The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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... 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Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... 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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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5814K Ernest Shackleton / South: The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition (Coffee Table Book) South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of the... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5678K Ray Mears / Wild Food (Coffee Table Book) Ray Mears has travelled the world to see how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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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Quick view sku: aA5814K Ernest Shackleton / South: The story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition (Coffee Table Book) South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of the... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5678K Ray Mears / Wild Food (Coffee Table Book) Ray Mears has travelled the world to see how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. What's always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves--and what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were... 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Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Quick view sku: aA5678K Ray Mears / Wild Food (Coffee Table Book) Ray Mears has travelled the world to see how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. What's always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves--and what we could learn about our own diet. We know they were... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5676K Ray Mears / Bushcraft Survival (Coffee Table Book) In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. From the Hudson Bay in Canada, via Tanzania and the jungles... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17728K A. Scott Berg / Lindbergh (Large Paperback) This is a most compelling story of a most significant life; the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 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: £4.47 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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. 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Quick view sku: aA5676K Ray Mears / Bushcraft Survival (Coffee Table Book) In BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL Ray Mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. From the Hudson Bay in Canada, via Tanzania and the jungles... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17728K A. Scott Berg / Lindbergh (Large Paperback) This is a most compelling story of a most significant life; the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 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: £4.47 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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... 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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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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: £4.47 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11849K Nathaniel Philbrick / In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Large Paperback) "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £22.34 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11849K Nathaniel Philbrick / In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Large Paperback) "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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,... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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... 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Quick view sku: wW17639K John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback) The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11849K Nathaniel Philbrick / In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Large Paperback) "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and... 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MSRP: Now: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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... 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SALE Quick view sku: wW11849K Nathaniel Philbrick / In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Large Paperback) "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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... 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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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: wW11079K Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback) This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: aA3416K Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (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: £4.47 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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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... 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Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: wW10241K Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback) How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW21066H,wW21068H 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: £3.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED5091 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: £15.19 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: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR23458H Ernest Shackleton / South - The 'Endurance' Expedition South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 By Sir Ernest Shackleton South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 is the factual blow-by-blow narrative of the ill-fated polar expedition of the Endurance from the mouth of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: 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: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED1132,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: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR23228H Ranulph Fiennes / Shackleton Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.47 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next 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: £4.47 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected
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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
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: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected
SALE Quick view sku: X96034H Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback) This title includes a brilliant mix of vivid reportage, history and science. Historical diving bells, Greek sponge divers, world war two frogmen and record-setting breath hold divers compete for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles,... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: rR19438H,rR21268H 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: rR15203H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: 77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
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