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The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

By Nicol, John, Flannery, Tim

The riddle and the Knight: in search of Sir John Mandeville

By Milton, Giles.

I May be Some Time-Csd

By Spufford, Francis

Explorations: An Autobiography (Phoenix Giants S.)

By Ballard, Robert

Mind Over Matter: Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

By Fiennes Bt OBE, Sir Ranulph

Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia

By Brooke, Alan, Brandon, David

Stanley and Livingstone: Expeditions Through Africa (Beyond the Horizons S.)

By Twist, Clint, Swallow, Su

The Black Ship: The Quest to Recover an English Pirate Ship and Its Lost Treasure

By Clifford, Barry, Perry, Paul

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By Parry, Bruce

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

A World Lit Only by Fire

By Manchester, WILLIAM

A Book of Voyages

By O’Brian, Patrick

I May Be Some Time

By Spufford, Francis

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

By Holmes, Richard

Facing the Frozen Ocean