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

By Wade Davis

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

By Anstruther, Ian

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

By Sandeep Jauhar

The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps

By Peter Whitfield

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale

Blowout

By Robert Orrell

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

By Edward Dolnick

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

By Ranulph Fiennes

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

By Tudor Parfitt

Death in the Ice: The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition

By Karen Ryan

From Blantyre To Chitambo: A Brief Life Of David Livingstone

By Snelson, Peter

David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy

By Sarah Worden

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

By Dr Andrew C. Ross

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

To the Ends of the Earth

By Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE

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

By Anthony Sattin

Hearts of Darkness: European Exploration of Africa

By F.J. McLynn

Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World

By Tim Ecott

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

By Piccard, Jones;, Bertrand, Jones, Brian

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

By Sir Douglas Mawson

Yermak's Campaign in Siberia. Translated by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman

By Terence Armstrong

Columbus

By Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Ghosts of the Abyss

By Don & Marschall Ken Lynch

"Titanic"

By Leo Marriott

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

By x Mike Rapport

Adventures in Ocean Exploration: From the Discovery of the "Titanic" to the Search for Noah's Flood

By Robert D. Ballard, Malcolm McConnell

High Adventure

By Hillary, Sir Edmund

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

By Stephen E. Ambrose

The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648. Bering's precursor with selected documents

By Raymond H Fisher

The Eight Sailing & Mountain-Exploration Books

By Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar