(Paperback)
By: Simon Nasht
ISBN: 9780733622427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The gripping story of one of the greatest explorers of the 20th Century.
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By: Philip Hills
ISBN: 9781761441455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Hardie Grant Media
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InThe Man Who Tried to Prove Too Much, Philip Hills looks back on his life and what he has learnt, after he is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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By: Ed Caesar
ISBN: 9780241977255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Lamisse Hamouda
ISBN: 9780648795117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Pantera Press
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(Hardback)
By: Tom Turcich
ISBN: 9781510779013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th December 2024
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Lynda Holden
ISBN: 9780645818079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Pantera Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jenny Tough
ISBN: 9781787833005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2020
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The badass adventurers in this collection are all fearless, intelligent, compassionate and curious about the world and they all happen to be female. From arctic expeditions and endurance races to wingsuit flying and mountain climbing, they have set the bar high for what women are capable of. These are their inspiring stories.
(Paperback)
By: Frank Wolf
ISBN: 9781771606844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
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(Paperback, Large Print Edition)
By: Mike Allsop
ISBN: 9780369312556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Read How You Want
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(Paperback)
By: Bruce K. Wylie
ISBN: 9781667889641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Jill Liddington
ISBN: 9781526176417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.
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By: Janet Wolff
ISBN: 9781526121301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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(Paperback)
By: John Gascoigne
ISBN: 9781847252098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. This work details what happened in Cook's voyages when he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.
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By: Tanisha R. Showell
ISBN: 9781667893556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Andrew C. Ross
ISBN: 9781852855659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Born in poverty in Blantyre, Scotland, David Livingstone educated himself by heroic endeavor, later proving him-self to be a remarkable linguist and scientist. His missionary journeys brought him into contact with a wide range of African peoples, for whom he showed remarkable sympathy. This is an account of his life and of his achievements.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Andrew C. Ross
ISBN: 9781852852856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A scholarly and readable account of the life and achievements of one of the greatest Victorians, which raises questions about the aims of his epic journeys through Africa - were they purely to save souls and counter the slave trade, or were they the first steps towards bringing the peoples of central Africa under European control
(Paperback)
By: Sally Hyder
ISBN: 9780007393589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Heartwarming, inspirational and genuinely touching, Finding Harmony is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary dog that rescued a woman from the depths of depression and transformed a family for ever.
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By: Sebastian Hope
ISBN: 9780007130214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, Hotel Tiberias is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian Hope follows the tumultuous story of his familys hotel in Palestine.
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By: Malcolm Andrews
ISBN: 9780733323003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: ABC Books
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Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and secret agent; loyal lieutenant to Shackleton, Bean and Hearst; the last man from the West to meet with Lenin ... Sir Hubert Wilkins lived many lives - all of them exciting and fantastic.
(Paperback)
By: Daniel Arnold
ISBN: 9781582437507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Neville Peat
ISBN: 9781869799465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Random House New Zealand Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Glynis Ridley
ISBN: 9780732292850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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In 1765, eminent botanist Philibert Commerson was appointed official naturalist to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. Jeanne Baret - Commerson's young mistress and collaborator - disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. Ridley brings to life Jeanne Baret and her pioneering journey.
(Paperback)
By: Alec Wilkinson
ISBN: 9780099516897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Poppa Neutrino is a philosopher of movement, a vernacular Buddhist, a San Francisco bohemian, a polymath, a pauper, a football strategist for the Red Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation, and a mariner who built a raft from materials he found on the streets of New York and sailed across the North Atlantic.
(Paperback)
By: Pat Shipman
ISBN: 9780552163903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Ultimately they would wed and venture together into some of the most inaccessible regions on Earth.
At this tender age, Florence Baker had already seen and experienced more than most women of the Victorian era.
