Books about exploration

619 books in our catalogue · showing 289–336

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

Elephant Complex

John Gimlette

The Travels

Marco Polo, Nigel Cliff

The Encounter : Amazon Beaming

Petru Popescu, Simon McBurney

Shackleton's Boat

Harding McGregor Dunnett

Walking the Nile

Levison Wood

The Snow Geese

William Fiennes, Robert Macfarlane

To the Ends of the Earth

Ranulph Fiennes

The Tomb in Seville

Norman Lewis

Guides and practical books

Mongolia

Jane Blunden

Climbing and mountaineering

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