Exploration and Discovery

Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life

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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...

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...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

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...

Tim Jeal / Explorers of the Nile : The Triumph and the Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers – Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley – risked their lives in the name of a quest to discover the source...

Douglas Preston / The Lost City Of The Monkey God

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán...

Tim. Ecott / Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World (Hardback)

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Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback)

One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery...

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...

Michael Palin / Erebus: The Story of a Ship

 _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The TerrorIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most...

Graham Bowley / No Way Down : Life and Death on K2 (Large Paperback)

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,...

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...