Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 241–288

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 Kindness of Strangers : Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow

Levison Wood, Al Humphreys, Anna McNuff, Benedict Allen, Ed Stafford, Fearghal O'Nuallain, George Mahood, Jamie McDonald, Lois Pryce

The Other

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Neal Ascherson

Great British Journeys

Nicholas Crane

On the Wilder Shores of Love : A Bohemian Life

Lesley Blanch, Georgia de Chamberet

Guides and practical books

Lonely Planet Mongolia

Lonely Planet, Trent Holden, Adam Karlin, Michael Kohn, Thomas O'Malley, Adam Skolnick

Guyana

Kirk Smock

Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway

Lonely Planet, Simon Richmond, Mark Baker, Stuart Butler, Trent Holden, Adam Karlin, Michael Kohn, Ali Lemer, Tatyana Leonov, Tom Masters

Lonely Planet Tales from Nowhere

Lonely Planet, Tim Cahill, Jason Elliot, Don George, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, Rolf Potts, Anthony Sattin, Danny Wallace, Simon Winchester

Climbing and mountaineering

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