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Scott and Amundsen

By Huntford, Roland

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

By Fernandez–armes, Felipe

The Oxford Companion to World Exploration

By Buisseret, David

South!: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917: 0 (Stanfords Travel Classics)

By Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

By Tim Jeal

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail

By Stephen Taylor

Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures: Facing Up - Facing the Frozen Ocean

By Grylls, Bear

Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition

By Cookman, Scott

Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

By Moore, Peter

Alone: Classic of Polar Solitude and Adventure: The Classic Polar Adventure

By Byrd, Richard E.

Promised Lands: Stories of Power and Poverty in the Third World

By Vallely, Paul, Porritt, Jonathan, Goldwater, Mike

The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Penguin Little Black Classics)

By Hakluyt, Richard

Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia

By Brooke, Alan, Brandon, David

Embassy to the Eastern Courts: America's Secret First Pivot Toward Asia, 1832 37

By Andrew C. A. Jampoler

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

By Millas, Juan Jose, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bunstead, Thomas, Hahn, Daniel

Thesiger

By Asher, Michael

A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire

By Murray, Nicholas

The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer

By Bredin, Miles

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired ‘Moby Dick’

By Philbrick, Nathaniel

A World Lit Only by Fire

By Manchester, WILLIAM

The Blue Nile

By Moorehead, Alan

To the Source of the Yangtze

By Bell, Dick

Monsters: History's most evil men and women

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon

Facing the Frozen Ocean

By Grylls, Bear

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

By Holmes, Richard

I May Be Some Time

By Spufford, Francis

A Book of Voyages

By O’Brian, Patrick

The Vikings

By Roesdahl, Else

Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

By Fiennes Bt OBE, Sir Ranulph

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin Classics)

By Las Casas, Bartolomé, Pagden, Anthony