Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 193–240

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

Horizon

Barry Lopez

Eothen : Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

Alexander William Kinglake, Jonathan Raban

Imperium : With an afterword by Margaret Atwood

Ryszard Kapuscinski Kapuscinski

Letters from Iceland

Louis MacNeice, W.H. Auden

Guides and practical books

Climbing and mountaineering

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