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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR.* A journey across the former Ottoman Empire reveals its legacy and the integral diversity threatened amid rising nationalism.

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"The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--

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The final volume of the classic trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his generation.

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COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE

This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit Adam Nicolson

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The untold story of Scott's Northern Party and their incredible survival of an Antarctic winter

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Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, the author discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.

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Despite the horrors that Scott and his men eventually faced, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other explorers.

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Mrs Billy Connolly/ Pamela Stephenson follows in the footsteps of Fanny Stevenson, maverick wife of the even more maverick Robert Louis, around the South Seas

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The true story of the Zen brothers, fourteenth-century merchant navigators whose fabled voyage to the North Atlantic made history.

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This is a comprehensive history of Antarctica from the earliest human contact through to the present. It covers the early explorers (Polynesians), the flora and the fauna, geological features, and the amazing marine diversity. The author discusses the physical and emotional effect of Antarctica on explorers, scientists, workers and visitors.

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"If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."--The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole.

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A dazzling portrait of a vast empty continent

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Written by one of its survivors, this book tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous Scott expedition.

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The award-winning TV adventurer and travel writer's enthralling account of his expedition around the Arabian Peninsula

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Pitted against formidable natural forces, the author and his team faced unrelenting winds with speeds of up to two hundred miles per hour as well as freezing temperatures and day-long blizzards. In this title, he records his historic expedition to explore uncharted land in Antarctica.

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The first fully illustrated edition of Darwin's account of his five-year sea voyage, including excerpts of On the Origin of Species, the groundbreaking work made possible by the journey.

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The story of the Terra Nova expedition is one of survival in the Antarctic. Levick's journal adds to this record the struggles of the brave men who explored the southern continent. Kerry Stokes AC There is nothing like the Antarctic for sending the schemes of mice and men all to blazes.

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In 1847 Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) embarked on an expedition to Sikkim in the eastern Himalaya, a region where he would discover a huge number of botanical treasures previouslyunknown to the West.

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On July 11th, 1897, three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North Pole. They never returned. This award-winning forensic investigation reveals their final hours.

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A beautifully written, personal history as Kief Hillsbery sets out to discover what happened to his ancestor who disappeared in Nepal over 150 years ago