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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. 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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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... 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In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 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. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED1132,MED1133 Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 72784K David L. 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... 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In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... 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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: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now 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. 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He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 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. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... 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He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... 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In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... 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He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now 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. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 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. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. 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In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 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. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now 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. 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He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... 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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now 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. 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He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view Details sku: X94381H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: wW1035K Susan Solomon / The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Hardback) These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: wW1030K 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 89354K Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life Danny MacAskill is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge, Cascadia, and nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale mountain peaks, rooftops, ghost towns, and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills, and millions of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED1127 Robert Falcon Scott - Scott's Last Expedition : The Journals - PB Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED983 Tim Severin - The Jason Voyage : The Quest for the Golden Fleece 'The little galley crept up the European shore, the crew still rowing easily to save their strength before the next ordeal. I saw the millrace at Bebek point from at least half a mile away. The water was shooting round the corner in a seething mass... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X98212K Eugene Rodgers / Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica (Large Paperback) When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view O'Brien Press Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have reached North America – by currach... MSRP: Now: €17.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: MED572 Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the entire area) contains Wainwright's original... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 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: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: 72784K David L. Mearns / The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor David Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's 16th century fleet, David has searched for and found dozens of sunken... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: nN893K Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: nN776K Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A History of Mountaineering (Coffee Table Book) Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival. The pioneers of the Victorian golden age tested this balance as they pushed themselves further and further, first in the Alps and... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: nN753K Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book) Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was held by a Frenchman, Francis Joyon. He'd slashed over 20... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: MED1027,MED1853 John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964 Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964. In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: X86816H Benedict Allen / Into the Abyss : Explorers on the Edge of Survival(Hardback) As he fell into the abyss, he asked himself: Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations. And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do explorers find the resources to survive? In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: X85643K Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq / To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle (Large Paperback) The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who have taken up... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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Quick view sku: X85125K Tim Flannery / An Explorer's Notebook - Essays on Life, History & Climate (Large Paperback) The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Faber Publishing | sku: 72391H Benedict Allen / The Faber Book of Exploration Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 60226K Andy Cave / Thin White Line In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77661K Bob Roberts / Last of the Sailormen (Large Paperback) This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X77634K Jimmy Cruickshank / High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith (Large Paperback) Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96559H David Courtney / Nine Lives (Large Paperback) A rescue pilot with some 300 missions under his belt, David Courtney has seen tragedy and triumph up close. Nine Lives is an account of being a rescue from learning to fly to the thrills and terrors of dangerous night rescues. Courtney explains... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88245H Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74811H Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74457H Roland Huntford / Nansen Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 75190H Roland Huntford / Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74096H Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 No Way Down is the the gripping, terrifying story of a brutal struggle for survival on the upper slopes of the Himalayan K2, the world's most hostile terrain, by Graham Bowley.K2, August 1st, 2008.Thirty climbers are attempting the summit... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1235 Tim Severin - The Brendan Voyage - HB 1978 - Ireland to North America Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 74361H,77954H Aron Ralston / 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 127 HoursTo view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76421H Charley Boorman / Race to Dakar - PB To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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