Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 577–619

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 Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron

Journey Without Maps

Graham Greene

A Russian Journal

John Steinbeck

The Masked Rider

Neil Peart

Sahara

Michael Palin

The Oregon Trail

Rinker Buck

My Holiday in North Korea

Wendy E. Simmons

Tales of a Female Nomad

Rita Golden Gelman

Into Iraq

Michael Palin

Full Circle

Michael Palin

What Am I Doing Here?

Bruce Chatwin

In Nigeria

Michael Palin

Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer

Mother of God

Paul Rosolie

Scott's Last Expedition

Robert Falcon Scott

An Area of Darkness

V. S. Naipaul

Scott and Amundsen

Roland Huntford

Home of the Blizzard

Sir Douglas Mawson

My Journey to Lhasa

Alexandra David-Neel

To Dakar and Back

Lawrence Hacking

Under Asian Skies

Sam Manicom

Travels

Michael Crichton

Blood River

Tim Butcher

Alaskan Travels

Edward Hoagland

Walking to Samarkand

Bernard Ollivier

Out of Istanbul

Bernard Ollivier

Adventureman

Jamie McDonald

The Oregon Trail

Francis Parkman

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