Als der junge Reporter Henry Morton Stanley 1869 von seinem exzentrischen New Yorker Verleger ins Pariser Grand Hotel bestellt wird – wo er seinen Chef im Schlafanzug vorfindet –, ahnt er nichts vom gigantischen Ausmaß des abenteuerlichen Auftrags, der sein Leben verändern wird.
1795 bricht der junge schottische Arzt Mungo Park in offizieller Mission auf, um das weitgehend unbekannte, unerschlossene, wilde Innere Afrikas weiter zu erforschen.
1914 bricht die Mannschaft der Endurance unter der Leitung von Sir Ernest Shackleton zur letzten großen Reise im Goldenen Zeitalter der heroischen Antarktis-Forschung auf.
"Wären wir am Leben geblieben, ich hätte eine Geschichte erzählen müssen von Kühnheit, Ausdauer und vom Mut meiner Gefährten, die das Herz jedes Briten gerührthätte.
Weniger als 25 Jahre geben Forscher:innen ihm noch, dann wird es so weit sein: Bis 2050 wird das Eis der Arktis abschmelzen, und unser Planet, den Generationen nur mit von ewigem Eis bedeckten Polkappen kennen, wird sich für immer verändern.
»Ein seltenes Juwel der Sachbuchliteratur« Walter IsaacsonIm August 1897 bricht der belgische Kommandant Adrien de Gerlache auf, um die Antarktis zu erobern.
Die Schweizer Pioniere Bertrand Piccard und André Borschberg heben ab zu einer visionären Mission: Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Luftfahrt umrunden sie die Erde ganz ohne Treibstoff, nur mit Sonnenenergie.
Eine der berühmtesten Expeditionen ins Eismeer- Der Originalbericht von Sir Ernest ShackletonIm Sommer 1914 stechen Sir Ernest Shackleton und seine Crew an Bord der »Endurance« in See.
Remarkable Road Trips collects over 50 of the most spectacular, dangerous, and thoroughly memorable road trips from around the worldEntries range from the shortest - the Guoilang Tunnel hewn into the side of a cliff face in China, to the longest, the Dempster Highway in desolate stretches of Arctic Canada.
In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scotts expedition to Antarctica.
For fifty-six days, four women left their 'regular lives', homes, families and comfort, to ride their motorbikes through scenic landscapes, inhospitable terrain and diverse regions.
In 1871, seventeen-year-old Frederick Dellenbaugh began a great adventure when he joined Major John Wesley Powell and a crew of scientists on Powell's second exploration trip down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon.
'A life-affirming book' Daily Mail'An uplifting personal story of a year lived like no other' Daily ExpressTwo days after her husband of sixty-seven years dies, nonagenarian Miss Norma is diagnosed with cancer.
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'A master nature writer' (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape.
*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Fl neuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French.
Philip Tranter and three friends drove a Land Rover 6,000 miles overland from Scotland to Nuristan to explore some of the unknown Central Hindu Kush area.
Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China.
This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania.
'It didn't matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel.
Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history - map by map.
In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two AmericansFrederick Cook and Robert Pearyeach claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him.
And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore, wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in the opening chapters of his now classic exploration narrative, The Worst Journey in the World.
*A Newstatesman Book of the Year* Nimble, vital, unexpectedly affecting ObserverBestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north.
