books by subject
History of Discovery & Exploration
The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps
Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019
I Presume: The story of H.M. Stanley's greatest triumph.
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
The Voyages of Captain Cook
Awfully Ancient: Gory Gladiators, Savage Centurions and Caesar's Sticky End: A menacing history of the unruly Romans!
Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane
Before Columbus CB
The Sinbad Voyage
Thin White Line
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World
Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook
Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler's Wolf Packs: Diaries of a Merchant Navy Radio Officer, 1939-45
Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth
Xanadu
The Sea Hunters
Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer
The Book of Exploration
The Mapmakers: Revised Edition
With Scott to the Pole: The Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1913
An Unsung Hero
Polly: True Story Behind "Whisky Galore"
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
Himmler's Crusade: The True Story of the 1938 Nazi Expedition Into Tibet
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