Exploration and Discovery

Steve Parker / Scotts Last Expedition (Coffee Table Book)

In November 1910 Robert Falcon Scott set off from New Zealand on the greatest quest of the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration - to reach the South Pole in Antarctica, the most remote, forbidding place...

David Whitehouse / One Small Step - The Inside Story of Space Exploration (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Robin Hanbury Tenison / The Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book)

Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always...

Chris McNab / The SAS Handbook of Living off the Land (Coffee Table Book)

Jonathan Shackleton & John McKenna - Shackleton : An Irishman in Antarctica - HB - 2002

Hardcover, published by Blackstaff Press, 2002. Light edgewear to the upper front edge of the dustjacket, but no tears or damage.  A 2002 biography of explorer Ernest Shackleton, lavishly illustrated...

Hugh McManners / The Commando Survival Manual (Coffee Table Book)

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Enda O'Coineen - Journey to the Edge - PB - 2019

From Enda O’Coineen, in business and adventure, we can learn much. The man sails on a sea of obsession in life - guided only by the goals he sets himself.He became the first ever Irish entry to...

Fergus Fleming / The Explorer's Eye : First-Hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration (Coffee Table Book)

The Explorer's First-hand Accounts of Adv

Andrew Chaikin / Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight (Coffee Table Book)

Depicts the milestones of aviation and sp

Ranulph Fiennes / Above the World (Coffee Table Book)

Above the Stunning Satellite Images From

Ranulph Fiennes / Living Dangerously (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Peter Aughton / Voyages That Changed the World (Coffee Table Book)

Voyages

Broughton Coburn / Triumph on Everest : A Photobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary (Coffee Table Book)

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Ed Viesturs / Himalayan Quest : Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants (Coffee Table Book)

Now updated to include the triumphant culmination of a monumental quest—to stand on the summits of all fourteen of the world’s highest mountains— Himalayan Quest offers an unforgettable glimpse into...

Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Modern Explorers (Coffee Table Book)

Stories of the thrills and hardships faced by modern expeditions that continue to enhance our understanding of the world around us This book profiles thirty-nine modern explorers who have disproved...

Parragon Books / 100 Diving Sites: Underwater Paradises Around the Globe (Coffee Table Book)

100 Divi

Beth Tierney / Diving Southeast Asia: A Guide To Asia's Tropical Seas (Coffee Table Book)

The newe

Pamela Stephenson / Murder or Mutiny: An Adventure Story (Coffee Table Book)

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Pat Falvey / A Journey to Adventure: Stories I Never Thought I'd Tell (Coffee Table Book)

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Jeff Lowe / Ice World: Techniques and Experiences of Modern Ice Climbing (Coffee Table Book)

Climbing veteran Jeff Lowe provides a his

Miriam Estensen / Discovery - The Quest for the Great South Land (Hardback)

Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land

Bear Grylls / Mud, Sweat and Tears (Hardback)

Bear Gry

Mark Finnan / Oak Island Secrets (Large Paperback)

Updated with information on the results of high-tech underwater scans, Oak Island Secrets offers a complete and up-to-date account of Canada's most puzzling and intriguing historical and...

Chris Bonington / Boundless Horizons (Hardback)

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Bear Grylls / Facing the Frozen Ocean

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Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened: Everest

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Mensun Bound / The Ship Beneath the Ice The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance (Large Paperback)

  The extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, the ship that gave its name to the world's most famous survival epic, told by the man who led the search.

Ewen Southby-Tailyour / Blondie (Large Paperback)

The Life of Lieutenant-Colonel HG Hasler DSO, OBE, RM, founder of the SBS and Modern Single-handed Ocean Racing Blondie Hasler was the leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes'. He desig

Colin Fletcher / River (Large Paperback)

One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea

Tracy Edwards & Tim Madge / Maiden (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Aldus Books / A History of Discovery and Exploration - 1973 (3 Book Collection)

A History of Discovery and Exploration (3 Book Collection)   Earth's Last Frontiers The New World The Search Begins

Mark Carwardine , Stephen Fry / Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (Coffee Table Book)

Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most...

Jon Balchin / To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys of the Great Explorers (Coffee Table Book)

Fascinated by what lies beyond the boundaries of human experience, men and women have throughout history been irresistibly drawn to venture into the unknown. Lavishly illustrated, 'To The Ends Of The...

Robin Hanbury-Tenison / The Seventy Great Journeys in History (Coffee Table Book)

The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history, illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps.Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone,...

Jochen Hemmleb / Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Coffee Table Book)

Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? Until now, clues about what happened to these two Everest pioneers had been scant and misleading. Until now, no one...

John Hawkridge / Uphill All the Way (Hardback)

John Hawkridge was slightly handicapped at birth and by an unfortunate operation was rendered fully disabled Despite this, his remarkable determination and energy enabled him to become a formidable...

Tom Bergin - In the Steps of Burke and Wills - HB

The journey of Burke and Wills across Australia from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria was retraced in 1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test the hypothesis on use...

Bear Grylls / How to Stay Alive (Large Paperback)

The ultimate survival guide for any situation.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and...

Peter Murtagh / From Tip to Top (Large Paperback)

The journey of a lifetime from Chile to Alaska   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same auth

Jessica Watson / True Spirit - The Aussie Girl who Took on the World (Large Paperback)

Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous...

Ed Wright / Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth (Coffee Table Book)

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Broughton Coburn / Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Coffee Table Book)

David Br

Bear Grylls / Facing Up/ Facing the Frozen Ocean (Hardback)

A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally...

Danny MacAskill / At the Edge: Riding for My Life

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Jeff Connor / Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk (Large Paperback)

The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial, and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with...

Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936)

A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine.  Illustrated throughout in black and white...

Emma Byrne - Famous Irish Mariners - HB - BRAND NEW

Surrounded on all sides by water, Ireland and its people have long been shaped by the sea. Ireland has a rich history of famous – and infamous – mariners: from our earliest navigators, who may have...

Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987

Angled creases to front cover.  Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. 

Alfred Wainwright - A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ( The Western Fells ) - HB

Wainwright's hand-drawn walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This guide, originally published in 1966, ( and the 7th book in his series covering the...

Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW

A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot...

Ellen MacArthur / Race Against Time (Coffee Table Book)

Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. The record was...

John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964

Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964.  In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American...