(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: Ronald M. Anglin
ISBN: 9781442262829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From the first account of "Colter's Run," published in 1810, fascination with John Colter, one of America's most famous and yet least known frontiersmen and discoverer of Yellowstone Park, has never waned. Unlike other legends of the era like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and K...
(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.
(Paperback)
By: Chauncey Loomis
ISBN: 9780375755255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The "first-rate detective story" ("The New York Times Book Review") of an amateur explorer in search of the lost Franklin expedition who perished amid rumors of murder and mutiny in the far North.
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Lonsdale
ISBN: 9781526168696
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. This book traces the lives of five women who fought against prejudice for their right to work in, enjoy and help save the earth's wild places.
(Hardback)
By: Mollie Hughes
ISBN: 9781780278407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Birlinn General
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Mollie Hughesis a world record-breaking sports adventurer, mountaineer, polar explorer and international motivational speaker. With reference to her all-extreme experiences, and backed with psychological research,Breatheencompasses tales of bravery, risk and pressure on an epic scale and expertly turns them into valuable lessons.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Mick Conefrey
ISBN: 9781838959814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A dramatic and compelling reappraisal of George Mallory and his mysterious disappearance on Mount Everest in 1924.
(Paperback)
By: Hlne Grimaud
ISBN: 9798888502150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2026
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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(Paperback)
By: Raynor Winn
ISBN: 9781405984669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Julia Jones
ISBN: 9781399415460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The extraordinary stories of the fearless women who set their sights on the sea in an all-male world, and paved the way for the female sailing superstars of today.
(Paperback)
By: Eric Blehm
ISBN: 9780062971418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Turcich
ISBN: 9781510783720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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The invigorating true story of a man and his dog who circled the globe on foot.
(Hardback)
By: Jill Liddington
ISBN: 9781526157355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
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.
(Paperback)
By: Todd Lawson
ISBN: 9781771605755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Jeremy Evans
ISBN: 9781771604833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Dick Russell
ISBN: 9781510780385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Hough
ISBN: 9780340825563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2003
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An exciting and marvellously readable biography of Captain James Cook, the last of the great navigators.
(Hardback)
By: James R. Hansen
ISBN: 9781639364176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2023
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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From the New York Timesbestselling author of The First Mancomes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinaryand extraordinarily differentadventurerswho have only one thingin common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone.
(Paperback)
By: Louis Rudd
ISBN: 9781529031768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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From the SAS to a headline-making solo journey across Antarctica this is a story of courage, grit and determination.
(Paperback, Export/Airside)
By: Mick Conefrey
ISBN: 9781805462712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A dramatic and compelling reappraisal of George Mallory published to coincide with the centenary of his mysterious disappearance on Mount Everest in 1924
(Paperback)
By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9780340696767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2000
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2000
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century
(Paperback)
By: Ernest Shackleton
ISBN: 9781876485306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Text Publishing
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This new edition includes a selection of Frank Hurley's incomparable photographs.
(Paperback)
By: Brad Fox
ISBN: 9781911590873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A luminous and original account of the Bathysphere expeditions: the first ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly terrain more than 3,000ft below sea level
