Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 433–480

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

Hashish

Henry De Monfreid

Oracle Bones

Peter Hessler

Quest for Kim

Peter Hopkirk

The 8.55 To Baghdad

Andrew Eames

The Dust Diaries

Owen Sheers

A Writer's World

Jan Morris

Words of Mercury

Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Cook's Tour

Anthony Bourdain

Venture To The Interior

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

Red Dust

Ma Jian

Remote People

Evelyn Waugh

Climbing and mountaineering

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