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The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains ...
By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in ...
`Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
`Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude
`Fascinating and satisfying' Simon ...
Sailing with Cook: Inside the Private Journal of James Burney RN is about the young James Burney's experience of shipboard life and the momentous ...
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill. Captain James Cook first set sail ...
'Stunning...divine' Stephen Fry
`A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous' John Lloyd, creator of QI
`Perfect for the armchair adventurer ...
`A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z
`A wonderful story of a ...
Discover the most intriguing, fascinating and extraordinary facts about the world in this lavishly illustrated, large format atlas. Feed your imagination and go on an ...
The figure of Sir Ernest Shackleton, inflated by time and celebrity, has come to personify the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Whilst the story of ...
In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, armed with five ships and about 260 men, set sail from Spain in search of a water route to the West ...
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would ...
ANTARCTICA: ERNEST SHACKLETON : THE SOUTH POLE
THE ARCTIC: ROBERT PEARY : THE NORTH POLE
THE HIMALAYAS: THE DUKE OF THE ABRUZZI : K2
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Throughout history, a handful of unusually driven individuals have been inspired to explore the limits of the known world, inspiring us and changing our perceptions ...
For the past 225 years, the story of the Bounty mutiny has captured the public's imagination. The reasons for the mutiny have been intensely ...
Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And ...
