books by subject
History of Discovery & Exploration

Livingstone

Columbus

The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

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

Colder: The Illustrated Story of Britain's Greatest Polar Explorer

Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World

Thin White Line

The Sinbad Voyage

Before Columbus CB

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)

Awfully Ancient: Gory Gladiators, Savage Centurions and Caesar's Sticky End: A menacing history of the unruly Romans!

The Voyages of Captain Cook

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

I Presume: The story of H.M. Stanley's greatest triumph.

Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy

Blowout

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon

To the Ends of the Earth

The Seashell on the Mountaintop

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

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

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

Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World

Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa

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