Biography: adventurers and explorers

The International Bestseller 'A love story to the mountains in the mist, the pulsating northern lights and the red deer at dawn.

'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland.

Ellas emprendieron viajes extraordinarios en tiempos en los que los desplazamientos eran difíciles y la mayor parte de las personas no salían de sus pueblos.

The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, ';Yellowstone Vic' Smith.

The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his agethe westward movement of the American people.

Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.

For twelve years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved.

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

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From the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House.

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

';What we want to do is give our women even more liberty than they have.

Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a small mining village in Wales.

In September 1972, Rodney Milburn of Opelousas, Louisiana, won the Olympic gold medal in the men's 110-meter high hurdles.

At age 16 Chris Kopczynski carved the words ';Everest/Eiger' into the handle of his ice axe, marking his goal to climb the two mountains known as the highest and the hardest.

Winner of the 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature!

Covering the time period from 1807, when John Colter first discovered the wonders of the Yellowstone Plateau to the 1920s when tourists sped between luxury hotels in their automobiles, these tales of Wonderland come from the letters, journals, and diaries kept by early visitors and later tourists.

In 1981, Nigel Foster flew to Canada's Baffin Island to begin a solo kayak trip south toward northern Labrador.

Layton Kor is pre-eminent in American mountaineering.

In Standoff at High Noon, the sequel to Old West Showdown, coauthors Kellen Cutsforth and Bill Markley again investigate ten well-known, controversial stories from the Old West.

In the nineteenth century people could gain fame and fortune by ';discovering' and documenting things that were already known to exist like the source of the Nile and the North Pole.

Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying.

[2015 Reprint] Roger Tory Petersonthe Renaissance man who taught Americans the joy of watching birdsalso invented the modern field guide.

Like many hikers who've completed the Appalachian Trail, Jeffrey Ryan didn't do it in one long through-hike.

Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential.

An examination of the British author's use of levity and wit in his writing reveals the uses of joy and humor in Christianity.

A True Story Of Risk, Resilience and SurvivalAfter a life-changing neck injury left him paralysed, Ed Jackson defied the odds to walk again.

Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty.

Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty.

Devastating and compellingDAILY MAILPoignant TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT____________________________________________________________________________________________ The extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex.

The impact of Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic voyage launched an unprecedented explosion of European exploration.

';Impeccably researchedcaptivating!

ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OFBARACKOBAMASFAVOURITE BOOKS OF2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig'sKing is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

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The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra.

In September 2011, the double murder of gangsters Raju Pargai and Amit Arya rocked the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Then There Was Youis the eagerly awaited follow-up to Sophie Cachia's bestselling memoir Then There Was Her.

En este nuevo libro, quizás el más ambicioso y heterodoxo de los que ha escrito, Ana María Briongos nos sumerge en un mar de recuerdos por sus viajes de ida y vuelta en ese mundo tan personal y, a la vez tan universal.

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Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.

A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska.

The New York Times Bestseller *** As featured on The Joe Rogan Experience and Diary of a CEO ***Are we hardwired to crave more?

'You fall you're dead,' the voice inside my head told me.

The remarkable true story of one mans daring solo flight around the world in a tiny amphibious plane.

For years Tommy Charles searched South Carolina's upcountry for examples of ancient rock art carvings and paintings, efforts conducted on behalf of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA).

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStrictly Come Dancing professional and breast cancer and Crohn's awareness advocate Amy Dowden shares her journey from growing up in the Welsh Valleys to dancing on the glittering stage of prime-time television.

In "196 Tage auf treibender Eisscholle" erzählt Emil Bessels von seinem unglaublichen Überlebenskampf auf einer Eisscholle im Polarmeer.

The Complete Travel Books, Anecdotes & Memoirs of Mark Twain (Illustrated) offers readers a comprehensive collection of Mark Twain's travel writings, anecdotes, and personal memoirs.

In 'Eine Frau reist durch die Welt' nimmt uns Maria Leitner mit auf eine fesselnde Reise durch verschiedene Länder und Kulturen.

Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history.