Expedition & Discovery

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Explore and discover the world with these expedition and discovery books and maps. Whether you want to find out more about explorers and their discoveries from past and present, or you’re planning your own adventure, you’ll find the right book or map here.

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Northern Wilderness
by Ray Mears
In Northern Wilderness, Ray Mears celebrates one of the earth’s great wildernesses. In a journey through the mountains, forests, tundra and ice of the Canadian arctic, in a land where roads are s...
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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SAS Survival Guide
by Wiseman, John 'Lofty'
SAS Survival Guide is a mini Collins Gem pocket book containing information on how to survive in the wild, on land or at sea and in extreme climates. This updated edition contains all the latest...
- Publisher: Collins
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The Road Less Travelled
by Bill Bryson
The Road Less Travelled highlights 1,000 places off the tourist trail, all over the world. With a foreword by Bill Bryson, a team of travel writers have helped compile the relative merits (and...
- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
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Arctic
by Bruce Parry
Bruce Parry's Arctic accompanies the BBC2 television show of the same name, with over 150 specially commissioned photographs, and is written by the bestselling author with a thirst for extreme experien...
- Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
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Still Life - Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton
by Jane Ussher
Still Life is a unique and hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton....
- Publisher: Murdoch Books
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Arctica

Arctica is a collection of more than 450 evocative photographs taken on expeditions to the South and North Poles, with descriptions of the explorations and biographies of the men taking part, as well a...
- Publisher: Endeavour
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Three Letters From the Andes
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
“Three Letters From the Andes” is Patrick Leigh Fermor’s wonderful and very much personally accurate look at a trip to South America made over forty years ago. In 1971 Fermor accompanied five f...
- Publisher: John Murray
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Trailblazer Adventure Travel Guides

Trailblazer’s Adventure Travel Guide series encompasses a range of guides dedicated to adventurous activities in a range of worldwide destinations. The series includes outdoor activities such as...
- Publisher: Trailblazer Publications
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Trailblazer Rail Guides

Trailblazer Rail Guides series are highly practical, informative and portable guides designed specifically for those wanting to discover a country by train. Each title in the series explores its...
- Publisher: Trailblazer Publications
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Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru
by Hiram Bingham
A firsthand account of the discovery of the lost city of Machu Picchu details Bingham's expedition through the treacherous Peruvian highlands in pursuit of the great Inca landmark and the once powerful...
- Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Die if You Must
by John Hemming
'Die if you must, but never kill' was the injunction to his officers of Candido Rondon, first leader of Brazil's Indian Protection Service established in 1910, as a new age of development and explorati...
- Publisher: Pan Books
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Throwim Way Leg
by Tim Flannery
Hilarious and riveting, Thowim Way Leg chronicles mammologist Tim Flannery's adventures among the mountain people of New Guinea while in hot pursuit of giant rats, tree-kangaroos, bats, possums and ban...
- Publisher: Penguin