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The Sea Inside

By Hoare, Philip

Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert Fitzroy, the man who sailed Charles Darwin around the world

By Peter Nichols

Shackleton (A Ladybird Expert Book)

By Ben Saunders

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year

By Ranulph Fiennes

The Worst Journey in the World

By Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys

By Alexander Maitland

Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers

By Peter FitzSimons

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

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

By Terence Armstrong

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: Myths and Legends Series

By Spence, Lewis

The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future

By Peter Moore

The Devil's Mariner

By Anton Gill

The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750

By Glyndwr Williams

The Ship

By Simon Baker

The Eight Sailing & Mountain-Exploration Books

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

The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

By Fawn Brodie

Voyages That Changed the World

By Peter Aughton

Knowledge is Light: Travellers in the Near East

By Katherine Salahi

The Wreck of the Titanic

By Hutchinson, Gillian

Kursk: Film tie-in

By Robert Moore

Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle

By Mike Horn, Antony Shugaar, Jean-Philippe Chatrier

The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue

By Stephen McGinty

Captain Scott

By Fiennes, Ranulph