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The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue

By Stephen McGinty

David Livingstone

By M. Buxton

Voyages That Changed the World

By Peter Aughton

Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle

By Mike Horn, Antony Shugaar, Jean-Philippe Chatrier

Kursk: Film tie-in

By Robert Moore

The Wreck of the Titanic

By Hutchinson, Gillian

Knowledge is Light: Travellers in the Near East

By Katherine Salahi

From Khartoum to Jerusalem: The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885-1933)

By Dr Rachel Mairs (Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading, UK)

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

Columbus

By Fernández-Armesto, Dr. Felipe

The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

By Tzvetan Todorov

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf

Sleepyhead: The 20th anniversary edition of the gripping novel that changed crime fiction for ever (Tom Thorne Novels)

By Billingham, Mark, Child, Lee

Something Lost Behind the Ranges

By John Blashford-Snell

The Seashell on the Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler

James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world

By Peter FitzSimons

The Home of the Blizzard: Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14

By Sir Douglas Mawson

The Greatest Adventure. The Balloonists' own epic tale of their round-the-world voyage.

By Piccard, Jones;, Bertrand, Jones, Brian

Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World

By Tim Ecott

Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa

By F.J. McLynn

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu

By Anthony Sattin

To the Ends of the Earth

By Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

By Dr Andrew C. Ross

David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy

By Sarah Worden

From Blantyre To Chitambo: A Brief Life Of David Livingstone

By Snelson, Peter

Death in the Ice: The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition

By Karen Ryan

The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark

By Tudor Parfitt