Exploration and Discovery

Fergus O'Gorman / Antarctic Affair (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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A. Scott Berg / Lindbergh (Large Paperback)

This is a most compelling story of a most significant life; the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the...

Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book)

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John R. Bockstoce / Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic (Coffee Table Book)

In the pages that follow, the story of commercial whaling in the western Arctic is told by a scholar intimately acquainted with the terrain--not only as it can be found in the historical records or at archaeological sites, but from lone experience on the...

John Wesley Powell / The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Large Paperback)

The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them...

Ernest Shackleton / The Heart of the Antarctic (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Nathaniel Philbrick / In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Large Paperback)

"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and...

Michael Marshall / Ocean Traders from the Portuguese Discoveries to the Present Day (Coffee Table Book)

Discusses the evolution of the merchant ship and of navigational methods and their role in economic history   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same...

Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book)

Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer...

Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book)

Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The Earth' charts the astonishing feats of history's most...

Justin Marozzi / Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers (Coffee Table Book)

Faces of Exploration" is a lavishly produced collection of interviews, photographs and biographies of fifty of the world's most famous and inspirational explorers. It will appeal to anyone motivated by examples of human endeavour, fascinated by...

Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book)

The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil these are some of the greatest...

Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book)

Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one has known whether they reached the summit. Until now,...

John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback)

John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable hillwalker and finally conqueror of a good way up...

Michael Smith - An Unsung Hero - Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer - PB - 2002

Originally published in 2000 ( and a HUGE bestselling book at the time) this is a 2002 reprint , published by Collins Press, Cork.  Previous owners name label mark to inside front endpage, otherwise very good, slight curl to back covers ...

Michael Smith - An Unsung Hero : Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor - HB - SIGNED

In March 1909, Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition came home safely. When Scott heard the news, he immediately contacted Tom Crean with the intention of planning his own adventure. And thus the Terra Nova Expedition was born. The remarkable Tom Crean ran away...

Wilfrid Noyce / South Col - One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953(Large Paperback)

  Wilfrid Noyce was the first member of the 1953 Everest expedition to accomplish the ascent of the South Col, the small plateau just below the summit, from which Edmund Hilary's party set out to conquer the world's highest mountain. An accomplished...

Tim Foley / Tom Crean : The Extraordinary Life of an Irish Hero (Large Paperback)

Tom Crean is one of the most iconic figures in Irish history. Born in 1877 in County Kerry, he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen, a career that would bring him to the most extreme environments on Earth. We all think we know the Crean...

Robert James Fletcher / Isles of Illusion - Letters from the South Seas (Large Paperback)

This extraordinary book consists of a collection of letters written by Robert Fletcher to a friend in England. In them, he describes his arrival, in 1912, in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), where he sets up a residence for the next seven years. Asterisk's...

Vivian Fuchs & Edmund Hillary - The Crossing of Antarctica - HB - 1958

Hardcover, first edition 1958, illustrated throughout with many colour and black and white photographs.  Maps of Antarctica to front and back endpages.  Lacks the original dustjacket, moderate to heavy age spotting to page block. The story of...

Leonard F. Guttridge - Icebound : The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole - HB

The Jeanette was an 1879 US Polar expedition. Trapped in the ice for two winters, the Jeannette eventually buckled under the crushing power of the pack and sank. Her crew escaped but was forced to haul eight tons of supplies and three boats over hundreds...

Gavin Mortimer / Shackleton and the Antarctic Explorers (Coffee Table Book)

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Tim Severin - The Sinbad Voyage - HB - 1982

Hardcover, published by Hutchinson UK , 1982. First printing .  The account of Severin;s votage from Oman to China, in an reconstructed arab sailing ship, built without the use of nails, but tied wood an rope making up the ship, which had no modern...

Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB

The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes...

John Molloy / Steady As She Goes (Large Paperback)

There are many ingredients necessary to make an adventure. For example take one young and enthusiastic Irishman, a thirst to visit far away places, a love of the sea and a capacity to observe life and the adventure can begin. John Molloy in 410 well...

Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa / The Summit (Large Paperback)

How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days On 1 August 2008, 18 climbers from across the world set out to reach the summit of K2, the world’s second highest and most dangerous mountain - a peak which claims the life of one in every...

Juliana Buhring / This Road I Ride (Large Paperback)

Raised in the extreme religious cult “the Children of God,” Juliana Buhring was frequently punished for being a rebel and finally broke away. Her soul mate was an explorer seeking the source of unmapped rivers in Africa. When he was killed ,...

Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback)

The ultimate survival guide for any situation.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback)

The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second...

Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback)

Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want...

Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book)

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Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book)

David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format...

Jason Lewis / Dark Waters (The Expedition #1) (Large Paperback)

He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia’s Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and acute mountain sickness in the Himalayas. He was hit by a car and left for dead with two...

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

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 entire area)  contains Wainwright's original...

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...

Chris Bonington / The Climbers: A 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...

Chris Bonington / The Climbers : A 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...