'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is...
'There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its...
Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm StellerAs physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Be...
First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie'Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an...
Alone in Africa - Mungo ParkPark's 1795-7 odyssey in search of the Niger first awakened the world...
Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford PalgraveA scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a Frenc...
Landfall at Botany Bay - James CookThe son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, Cook won distinction as ...
Four Years in the Ice - John RossDisgraced and dishonored for his report of an imaginary mountain...
Farthest South - Ernest Henry ShackletonBorn in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy befo...
Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander BurnesOf all the 'forbidden' cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa...
Among the Sudanese - James BruceBruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century befo...
Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von HumboldtGeographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologis...