Search Results for ‘Atlantic Ocean’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 9 matches found

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...

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...

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...

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...

Over The Top

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In Over the Top, Adrian Flanagan recounts his journey as the first ever yachtsman to sail vertically around the world. One of the most difficult routes possible took Flanagan via Cape...

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...

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...

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...

North-East Greenland 1908-60 - The Trapper Era

Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen’s North-East Greenland is a comprehensive survey of life in the polar north of the Arctic. Based on unpublished diaries and personal interviews with trappers and other pioneers...