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Ultimate Adventures - A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel
| Author: | Greg Witt |
| Publisher: | Rough Guides |
| Catalogue number: | 168734 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Packed with ideas, inspiration and expert advice, Ultimate Adventures - A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel - is the complete guide to the best outdoor experiences on earth from this popular publisher...
The National Geographic Society
| Author: | C. D. B. Bryan |
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 103056 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 3 weeks |
A richly illustrated volume covering the contibutions made by the NGS to geographical exploration an education from 1888 to 1998.
The Seventy Great Journeys in History
| Author: | Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson |
| Catalogue number: | 148375 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
The stories of Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong are just some of the great explorers whose stories are told here alongside hundreds of evocative...
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 137420 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 weeks |
A magnificent celebration of 175 years of the Royal Geographical Society, from the early expeditions of Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, Younghusband in Tibet and Freya Stark in the Middle East, to...
Women Travelers - A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950
| Author: | Christel Mouchard |
| Publisher: | Flammarion |
| Catalogue number: | 157788 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Inspiring stories of a century of pioneering women, with essays by Alexandra Lapierre, the bestselling novelist of “Artemesia”.
An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women...
| Author: | Dugald Steer |
| Publisher: | Templar Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 158990 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“How To Be An Explorer - An Adventurer’s Guide”, by Dugald Steer, is a delightful children’s picture book. Beautiful illustrations, pop-ups, booklets, flaps and letters accompany the exciting stories...
Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys - Things to do
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 157104 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys is packed with stimulating and enjoyable things to keep you amused throughout the day. It will inspire young lads with the passion for adventure, fun and all things...
| Author: | Conn Iggulden |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 147807 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Conn Iggulden’s Dangerous Book for Boys is destined to become a publishing classic. Writing for Harper Collins in his first non-fiction work, Iggulden writes with the verve and passion that his readers...
The History of Seafaring - Navigating The World’s Oceans
| Author: | Donald S Johnson |
| Publisher: | Conway Maritime Press |
| Catalogue number: | 159821 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The seaways were the first global network and they were irrevocably linked the destinies of geographically and culturally distant people. “The History of Seafaring” is the definitive volume on navigation...
| Author: | Tom Sheppard |
| Publisher: | Desert Winds |
| Catalogue number: | 149804 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Previously known as "Off-Roader Driving", "Four By Four Driving" provides detailed coverage of all the tricks and skills particular to basic and advanced off-road driving techniques. Covers towing, on...
| Publisher: | Robson Books |
| Catalogue number: | 165247 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
The Backpacker’s Bible is the result of extensive research and first hand experience by Suzanne King and Elaine Robertson. It is crammed full of advice for the first time traveller- from organising...
| Author: | James Taylor |
| Publisher: | Conway Maritime Press |
| Catalogue number: | 170371 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 3 - 4 weeks |
The Voyage of the Beagle by James Taylor brings together, for the first time in a single volume, the circumstances that set the Beagle voyage in motion and the characters who circumnavigated the world...
How to be an Explorer of the World
| Publisher: | Perigee |
| Catalogue number: | 171671 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
How to be an Explorer of the World by Kerri Smith is an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.
In this book you will be repeatedly asked to…suspend disbelief...
| Publisher: | Redwood Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 169483 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Portraits of Adventure” is a collection of extraordinary photographs that capture the true spirit of adventure.
With all photos sumptuously reproduced in full-colour, the book also contains an incredible...
| Author: | Dava Sobel |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
| Catalogue number: | 85418 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Longitude is the story of the man who, by perfecting the art of portable precision timekeeping, solved one of the great navigational and scientific problems of his time. The text is taken from Dava...
The Adventure Motorbiking Handbook
| Author: | Chris Scott |
| Publisher: | Trailblazer Publications |
| Catalogue number: | 132110 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This comprehensive manual is packed with essential advice and know-how on all aspects of motorcycle travel on and off the beaten track.
Features -
- Top ten overland machines rated, documentation, preparing...
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
| Catalogue number: | 144813 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Lonely Planet’s new inspirational coffee table guide book is full of suggestions of what to do, where to do it, and when. Featuring fun ideas like sandboarding the dunes in Namibia’s Swakopmund, horse...
| Author: | Amelia Thomas |
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
| Catalogue number: | 152051 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Presented in a style that’s reminiscent of an Orange mobile phone manual, Lonely Planet have put together a guide on how to get more out of your time, for those that think they’re too busy to possibly...
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