Search Results for ‘Atlantic Ocean’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 8 matches found

Facing the Frozen Ocean

In June 2003, Bear Grylls and his team set out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, across the infamous Labrador Sea, one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world. The team headed for the vast...

The Crossing

When James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew what awaited them: nearly three thousand miles of empty ocean, stormy weather and colossal physical...

Trawler

Redmond O'Hanlon helps decimate the oceans by joining a deep-sea trawler crew on one of their gut-wrenching, roller-coaster forays into the north atlantic. A rarely documented way of life and its privations...

Sailing Alone Around the World

"Sailing Alone around the World" is the extraordinary story of one man’s courage and resourcefulness, and has an enduring and universal appeal as a landmark of world adventure.
Joshua Slocum spent...

Portrait of the Gulf Stream

Érik Orsenna’s passion and concern for the future of the Gulf Stream was the motivation behind this book, “Portrait of the Gulf Stream”. In it he raises the questions: What is the Gulf Stream? Is it...

Give Me My Father's Body

In this book the story of arctic exploration is told through the eyes of the Eskimos.
Minik and six other Inuit were taken from Greenland to New York in 1897. There they were put on display like circus...

The Teatime Islands

This is the author's first book in which he recounts the pursuit of his childhood dream of travelling to the far-flung outposts of Britain where red post boxes and Union Jacks still remain. In his...

Napoleon and St Helena

“Naploeon and St Helena” is a truly fascinating account of a visit to 'the last place on earth'.
The island of St Helena, in the South Atlantic, is at one and the same the most remote (more than 2000km...