Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 1–48

Accounts of going somewhere hard to reach: polar crossings, desert journeys, long river trips and first routes up a mountain. It covers classic expedition narratives, modern adventure writing and the histories of exploration, along with practical books for people planning journeys of their own.

For the cold end of the map see Polar books; for the high ground, Mountains; for water, Rivers.

Writing on exploration

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

First Overland : London–Singapore by Land Rover

Tim Slessor, Sir David Attenborough

Polar Explorations

Sebastian Copeland, Jimmy  Chin

Falling for Saigon

Connla Stokes

Guides and practical books

Tajikistan

Sophie Ibbotson

Afghanistan

James Willcox, Dana Facaros

Lonely Planet Peru

Lonely Planet, Brendan Sainsbury, Harmony Difo, Steph Dyson, Alex Egerton, Victoria Gill, Vanessa Ramos, Agnes Rivera, Luke Waterson

Uzbekistan

Sophie Ibbotson, Aidan McMahon

On the water

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