(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alma Books Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781846884757)
A voyage through the thrilling history of the expedition of the thousand which led to the unification of Italy in 1860. Written by one of the most accomplished British writers....Loe edasi...
50th anniversary edition. Everest – the highest peak in the world, the ultimate challenge to a mountaineer’s skill and endurance. It had been climbed before, but never like this. Chris Bonington and his team had ambitions to climb it – the hard way....Loe edasi...
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of...Loe edasi...
Parker magnificently chronicles the America he encounters, a divided, disfranchised collection of states he fears for but comes to love for their generosity, community spirit and sense of hope Ben East, ObserverF...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781642832075)
Argues that today’s emerging geopolitical rivalries have roots in earlier waves of exploration and that the future prospect of a developed Arctic, with navigable passages to equal the Suez and Panama Canals, is drowning out the real impacts of warmin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803996141)
Lady Dorothy Dolly Mills was a petite figure with a big personality, born in 1889 into the political and literary Walpole family. When she married a clever but poor army captain, her father disinherited her. Defying her background and the expect...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Natural History Museum, ISBN-13: 9780565095772)
Charles Darwin chronicles the landmark expedition which he called by far the most important event in my life and which would forever alter the course of scientific thought....Loe edasi...
Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track... So it was with mine.Fifty years ago the interior of Bor...Loe edasi...
Würden Sie Ihre Ängste hinter sich lassen, um sich auf eine Weltreise zu begeben? Wie wäre es für Sie und Ihr heranwachsendes Kind, jeden Morgen in der Natur aufzuwachen und die Kulturen der Welt kennenzulernen?Würden Sie Ihre Ängste hint...Loe edasi...
A sweeping history of mountaineering before Everest, and the epic human quest to reach the highest places on Earth. The White LadderThe White LadderThroughout, Light pays special attention to Incan climbers, Gurkha guides, Sherpa mountaineers...Loe edasi...
A luminous and original account of the Bathysphere expeditions: the first ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly terrain more than 3,000ft below sea level...Loe edasi...
A compelling, funny and highly topical account of a bike ride through the heartlands of America and its endlessly surprising citizens.As a child Simon Parker had always thought of America as the golden land. A place of adv...Loe edasi...
The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain and only successfully climbed once before. Unlike...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-May-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008702885)
A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....Loe edasi...
Published on the 100th anniversary of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Everest 24 presents a newly curated portfolio of images from the Royal Geographical Societys collections....Loe edasi...
It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the British and other Europeans to venture out to unknown lands.These intrepid explorers, who devoted and often lost their lives on journe...Loe edasi...
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was...Loe edasi...
A rediscovered classic memoir - the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one womans year spent living in a remote hut in the ArcticThis rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying societys expectations to...Loe edasi...
Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a ‘man’s world’ — alone and literally with just the clothes on her back — to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pan Books, ISBN-13: 9781035008421)
The Ship Beneath the Ice is the extraordinary story of how the worlds most famous shipwreck was found, told by the searchs Director of Exploration....Loe edasi...
paliuwThe Last NavigatorThe Last Navigator The classic account of traditional Micronesian navigation and “the last navigator,” Mau Piailug, who fought to preserve it—now available in a revised edition illustrated in full color...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803998282)
In 1999, my expedition found George Mallory’s body on Mount Everest. The intense public interest in his tragic fate obscured the other actors in that dramatic story. The pioneers who attempted the first climbs in 1922 and 1924 knew nothin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Alma Books Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781846884757)
A voyage through the thrilling history of the expedition of the thousand which led to the unification of Italy in 1860. Written by one of the most accomplished British writers....Loe edasi...
From the award-winning author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed. INSTANT SU...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781805265634)
Why not? No-one had ever done it: one of the longest of all overland journeys, from the English Channel to Singapore. Several expeditions had tried. Some had reached the Persian deserts; a few, the Indian plains. But none had gone further: over the j...Loe edasi...
The classic account of traditional Micronesian navigation and “the last navigator,” Mau Piailug, who fought to preserve it—now available in a revised edition illustrated in full color paliuwThe Last NavigatorThe Last Navigator...Loe edasi...
From ancient sea voyages to modern-day explorations of deep space, discover the expeditions that have shaped our world and the daring individuals who undertook them.Extraordinary Expeditions highlights 27 of the most influent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Arabian Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781916866164)
When Mark Evans set out from Ras Al Hadd in January 2025, he wasnt merely following Bertram Thomass historic footsteps across Oman he was bridging worlds. Traveling on foot, by camel and by 4x4, Evanss expedition reveals how the Sultanate has evolv...Loe edasi...
50th anniversary edition. Everest – the highest peak in the world, the ultimate challenge to a mountaineer’s skill and endurance. It had been climbed before, but never like this. Chris Bonington and his team had ambitions to climb it – the hard way....Loe edasi...
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN-13: 9780789344427)
Join one of the foremost polar explorers of our generation on transcontinental crossings of each polar cap as never before seen—and maybe never seen again.With his unrivaled photography taken during transcontinental crossings of each p...Loe edasi...
Parker magnificently chronicles the America he encounters, a divided, disfranchised collection of states he fears for but comes to love for their generosity, community spirit and sense of hope Ben East, ObserverF...Loe edasi...
