Biography: adventurers and explorers

The stunning debut of a talented young travel writer.

As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback.

The idiosyncratic and witty travelogue of a young Welsh-speaking woman who travels the globe in search of Welsh communities.

An entertaining social and cultural history of cycling in post-war Europe seen through the eyes of a veteran racing cyclist.

From the author of the existential thriller 'The Execution' comes 'Colony', a novel set in French Guiana as the age of Empire draws to a close and anarchy beckons.

An authoritative and entertaining account of the earliest ambassadors, who were at once diplomats, explorers and chroniclers of exotic civilisations.

From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged - in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.

A stunning debut from a Australian writer - the story of a treasure hunt through a vast New York bookshop.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000.

Author of bestselling 'Falling Leaves' weaves together for the same audience her own personal experiences with the best of Chinese philosophy.

This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.

Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil.

Through the lives of three outstanding naval officers - each considered the most brilliant commander of his generation - David Crane offers a unique portrait of the Royal Navy at a time when it held unchallenged dominion over the world's oceans.

This edition does not include illustrations.

The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.

Over 100,000 miles to cover, one man, one bike and one hungry stomach.

The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety - only to die tragically in early 1945.

From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea.

In her third novel, acclaimed author of 'In Search of Adam' and 'Black Boxes' Caroline Smailes draws upon her own family history for a remarkable and unforgettable story of loss and redemption.

After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved.

Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, 'Selling Your Father's Bones' is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA.

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"e;A superb biography, not to be missed either by armchair explorers or students of human nature.

The golden moments of exploration and adventure - glorious, triumphant, perilous and dramatic.

** The North Pole: The History of an Obsession by Erling Kagge is out now **'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton____________________________Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life.

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest.

Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the adventure that shaped the world .

Sommer 1939: Der junge Lehrer Fritz Kolb und sein Freund Ludwig Krenek erfüllen sich einen Traum.

The life and adventures of an American explorer and iconic figure in the 20th century religious counterculture movement.

New Year's Day, 2009.

Colonial missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, arrived in India with the grandiose vision of converting the pagans because, like St.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book offers an intimate look at her extraordinary life and details her lifelong pursuit for gender equality and a ';more perfect Union.

Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century.

Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century.

Winner:Banff Award for Mountain and Wilderness LiteratureThe British Sportsbook Award for Outstanding General Sports WritingThe Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureFinalist for the HW Fisher Biographers PrizeEverest was not conquered by force of will alone.

Effective communication with the African society in the field of missions, church planting, and social development work has been and continues to be a great challenge, particularly to people from western cultural and language orientation.

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale.

Gain wisdom and learn how to make good choices from someone who has made good and bad choices alike.

Winner of the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western BiographiesJohn William Dear was born in 1845 into a close-knit farming family in Northern Virginia.

Winner of the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western BiographiesJohn William Dear was born in 1845 into a close-knit farming family in Northern Virginia.

A biography of an aviation archaeology pioneer who unearthed World War II plane wrecks and the stories they contained.

In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.

*** BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2024 ****** One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024 ****** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***'The story of Captain Cook s third voyage.

Gray has managed to do the virtually impossible, and that is to say something new and perceptive about Winston Churchill and Franklin DelanoRoosevelt Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919A fascinating two-way mirror onto a world of privilege Country Life Jennie Jerome and Sara Delano: two remarkable, often overlooked individuals who were key in shaping the characters of their sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D.

Fatherless, friendly 31yoF looking for intrepid M50s-70s who wants to try being a father figure (not sugar daddy).