The log of Livingstone’s journey is interposed with an account of their own trials and tribulations.

Maritime historian Granville Allen Mawer resolves long-standing controversies in this detailed and highly readable account of ambition and adventure centred around the competing claims to the last continent.

Crucial to control of the North Atlantic during the Second World War was knowledge of the weather: for the wolf packs and German raiders that lurked in these bitter seas this was the vital ingredient that would enable them to cut the vital arteries t

Although Nansen's success is overshadowed by the epic voyage of the Fram, his journey across Greenland in 1888 (eight attempts before him had failed) remains one of the most astonishing on record.

A unique and authoritative account of Martin Martin’s great journey around the Western Isles, Orkneys and Shetlands.

This is the story of Shackleton's first polar expedition, part of his never-ending quest to reach the South Pole.

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the naturalist and ornithologist George Clayton Atkinson set out from Newcastle to explore Skye and the Outer Hebrides, including the remote island of St Kilda.

Wilfrid Noyce was the first member of the 1953 Everest expedition to accomplish the ascent of the South Col, the small plateau just below the summit, from which Edmund Hilary's party set out to conquer the world's highest mountain.

An astonishing biography of a little-known Australian explorer.

In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith’s book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.

Frank Worsley’s account of the Shackleton Boat Journey remains the classic account of this extraordinary story.

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