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By: Tim Jeal

ISBN: 9780571221035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A gripping and critically acclaimed biography of the most brilliant and misunderstood adventurer in the great age of exploration.


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By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

ISBN: 9781526632104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Damian Le Bas

ISBN: 9781784743994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: The Countess of Carnarvon

ISBN: 9780008531737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.


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By: Tom Cheshire

ISBN: 9781780720890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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This is a remarkable story, not just about the extraordinary achievements of a family, but about the power of the individual to spur innovation, even when the consen


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By: Roy Jacobsen

ISBN: 9781529413038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A first-hand account of 19th century adventure and exploration, translated into English for the first time


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By: Roy Jacobsen

ISBN: 9781529413052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A first-hand account of 19th century adventure and exploration, translated into English for the first time


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By: Mensun Bound

ISBN: 9781035008414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The extraordinary story of how the worlds most famous shipwreck was found in 2022, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.


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By: Peter Gregg

ISBN: 9781639366811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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Filled with humor and madcap adventure, The Sugar Rush is the story of two friends with a sweet, golden, syrupy dream, set against the rugged New England wilderness.


(Paperback)

By: Matthew Henson

ISBN: 9781513291345
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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By: Richard Polsky

ISBN: 9781571782533
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Council Oak Books
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Lets you meet the Boneheads, a modern stone-age family: There's Stan and Steve Sacrisson, eccentric twins from South Dakota, with an uncanny sense for locating Rexes. Though one is a gravedigger and the other sleeps in his car, the pair have discovered three of them.


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By: Felipe Fernndez-Armesto

ISBN: 9781603841344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher Columbus' own writings - chronologically arranged, and translated into idiomatic English - to relate his self-perception and personal history, as far as is possible, in his own words.


(Paperback)

By: Felipe Fernndez-Armesto

ISBN: 9781603841337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher Columbus' own writings - chronologically arranged, and translated into idiomatic English - to relate his self-perception and personal history, as far as is possible, in his own words.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Fawn Brodie

ISBN: 9780907871231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2003
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2003
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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By: William Souder

ISBN: 9781571313553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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By: Kate Lance

ISBN: 9781742230191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Based on extensive research in both Australia and England, Kate Lance has produced a fascinating portrait of Villiers and the world he inhabited. Lance depicts the legendary sailor as a man of contradictions, who lived for the sea and adventure, and who is now respected and recognised as a brilliant writer, photographer, journalist and adventurer.


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By: John Robson

ISBN: 9781742231099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768 Highly readable and presenting much new research, this is an important new book for Cook scholars and armchair explorers alike.


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By: John Volanthen

ISBN: 9780711266100
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th March 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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This is the thrilling account of the dramatic Thai cave rescue which saved the lives of thirteen people, from the diver who led the search.


(Hardback)

By: John Volanthen

ISBN: 9780711266094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Aurum Press
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John Volanthen is a legendary British cave-diver and one of the two-man team who discovered and rescued the Wild Boars soccer team from the sunken cave in Tham Luang, Thailand. Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives is the deeply revealing and nail-biting account of that incredible rescue.


(Hardback)

By: Brad Ricca

ISBN: 9781250273604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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By: Ben McGrath

ISBN: 9780008221126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Brilliant, clear, and humane Elizabeth Gilbert Miraculous and hopeful Emma Straub

Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of Americas riverbank towns.


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By: Kathy Elkind

ISBN: 9781647425258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: She Writes Press
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A memoir that shares what happens when Kathy Elkind, a curious woman about to enter the last third of her life, decides to take a long walk 1,400 milesacross Europe with her husband of almost thirty years. Will her body and relationship make it to the end

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