Results for: books tagged ‘Exploration’
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan: Richard Nelson
On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men, his voice rising in stirring peroration: 'Let us all be new men! Born today! This minute! And with ... More
The Face of Tutankhamun: Christopher Frayling
George Mallory: David Robertson
Celebrated in his time as 'the rarest spirit of his generation', George Mallory vanished on the 8th of June 1924 in a third desperate attempt to climb Everest. Seventy-five years ... More
Report to Greco: Nikos Kazantzakis
Into the Crocodile Nest: Benedict Allen
Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies ... More
Hunting the Gugu: Benedict Allen
From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers' tales concerning black-maned ape-men asTheodore Hull - octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps - entices him ... More
The Other Side of Eden: Hugh Brody
Hugh Brody has an international reputation as an anthropologist and documentary film-maker of the Inuit peoples. This book is a marvellous account of hunter-gatherer culture, gleaned from years of living ... More
Maps and Dreams: Hugh Brody
The Canadian sub-arctic is a world of forest, prairie and muskeg; of rainbow trout, moose, and caribou; of Indian hunters and trappers. It is also a world of boomtowns and ... More
Letters from Iceland: W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice
This highly amusing and unorthodox travel book resulted from a light-hearted summer journey by the young poets Auden and MacNeice in 1936. Their letters home, in verse and prose, are ... More
Coronation Everest: Jan Morris
'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon WinchesterThis classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most ... More
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