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On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel ...
John McDouall Stuart (1815-66) was a surveyor and a pioneering explorer of Australia. Born in Scotland, he emigrated in 1839 to Australia where he worked ...
Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left ...
This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of ...
In the late 1290s Venetian merchant Marco Polo dictated an account of his own travels in north and south China (Cathay and Manji, in Polo ...
Captain Scott perished with four of his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole in March 1912. Almost immediately the myth was founded ...
January 2012 will mark the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's arrival at the South Pole with his team. Tragically, Scott's entire party died ...
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In ...
How can a man who achieved so much be so little remembered?
Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and ...
A fascinating biography of Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. Includes170 photographs, among them rare family snapshots and some of Frank Hurley's greatest Antarctic images ...
An illustrated history of explorers' maps and the questions they answer. More than the detailed representation of the geographical areas that their makers explored, maps ...
In 1629, the Batavia was wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board surtvived, only to ...
The Home of the Blizzard is a tale of discovery and adventure, of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. This is Mawson ...
The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of today.
In 1925 Fawcett was convinced that he ...
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER
'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure'JOHN GRISHAM
The story ...