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  • Ice with Everything

    In climbing mountains or sailing the seas one often has to settle for less than one hoped.

    by H.W. Tilman, Alex Ramsay ...
    Series Book 14 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mountainous regions.'H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's fourteenth book describes three more of those voyages, 'the first comparatively humdrum, the second totally disastrous, and the third exceedingly troublesome'.The ... Read more

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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Read more

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  • Mischief in Patagonia

    An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 2 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives' heads steam when they eat marmalade.'So responded H. W. 'Bill' Tilman to his own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude ... Read more

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  • Triumph and Tribulation

    No ship should be without Tabasco sauce

    by H.W. Tilman, Bob Comlay ...
    Series Book 15 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Experience is said to be the name men give to their mistakes and of the experience I gained in Spitsbergen that may well be true.'The circumnavigation of Spitsbergen is the first of three voyages described in H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's fifteenth and final book, a remarkable example of Tilman's ability to triumph when supported by a crew game for all challenges. The 1974 voyage of the pilot cutter ... Read more

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  • South

    Enriched edition.

    by Ernest Shackleton, Jackson Price ...
    In "South," Ernest Shackleton recounts his legendary Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance, which became an emblem of human resilience amid nature's harshest trials. Written in a gripping narrative style, the text merges adventure and descriptive prose, providing a vivid account of the crew's harrowing journey following the ship's demise in 1915. Shackleton's literary context lies within the ... Read more

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  • Two Years Before The Mast

    by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ...
    Two Years Before the Mast is the exhilarating 19th century personal narrative by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. that provides readers with an realistic understanding of America’s maritime heritage in the great age of sail: perhaps the most accurate picture yet of the life of seamen of that time, including the cruelty and abuse onboard ships.The book was written after Dana, who suffered weakened eyesight ... Read more

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  • The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

    Now Filmed As The Mercy

    by Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall ...
    'A masterpiece.' New Yorker'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday TimesIn 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to showcase... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Snow Petrel

    (A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)

    by Jon Tucker ...
    When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped at the windiest place on the planet, a remote location in East Antarctica.'Snow Petrel' is proof of what ... Read more

    $4.28 USD

  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    by John Rae ...
    Series series Classics West
    Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well when, in 1846, he was charged with completing the geography of the northern shore of North America ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship : A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power: A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power

    A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power

    by Nigel Calder, John Rousmaniere, Bill Gladstone, Robert Sweet, Peter Nielsen, Charlie Wing, Richard Clinchy ...
    Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questionsThe Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about:Boat Handling Under Power--Bob SweetSail ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Great White South

    being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic

    by Herbert George Ponting ...
    Series series BS Publishing
    Photographer Ponting joined Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. His remarkable book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on board and at camp, but also provides numerous photos depicting the Antarctic landscape. Ponting also recorded, both in print and on film, habits of the native penguins and seals, and shares stories of his arrival at volcanic Mount Erebus, nearly ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Roald Amundsen's "The North-West Passage": Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa," 1903-1907. Volume 1.

    by Roald Amundsen ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
 Elibron Classics. Replica of 1908 edition by Archibald Constable & Company Limited, London.
Oversize maps are available as a free download. 
By Roald Amundsen, with a Supplement by First Lieutenant Hansen, Vice-commander of the Expedition. With about one hundred and thirty-nine illustrations and three maps.
Gjøa was the first vessel to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD