Extreme Travel
For some people, having their luggage lost at Heathrow just doesn't make for a sufficiently taxing trip. So, for a real adventure, they explore the more remote and intemperate regions of the Earth. Now you can share in their intrepidity from the safety of your armchair with our selection of extreme travel writing.
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Edward Christian; William Bligh;... Fletcher Christian led the mutineers which sailed off in Admiral Bligh's Bounty, never to be heard of again. This work includes Bligh's narrative of the 1789 Mutiny, minutes of court... | Wilfred Thesiger; Rory Stewart Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of TE Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring the deserts of Arabia. This book... |
Walter Bonatti; Robert Marshall Collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on numerous expeditions to different mountains of the world, as well as the real story behind the controversy over the events on... | Apsley Cherry-Garrard Presents an account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. This book details scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from... |
Sara Wheeler The author spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf, as well as another month with the British Antarctic Survey. This title... | Mungo Park A combination of two journeys, Scotsman Mungo Park's story of his first trip in 1795 as a 24-year old, and again in 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable... |
Peter Matthiessen A magical journey into the heart of the Himalayas in search of a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical. | Slavomir Rawicz SlavomirRawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 9th November 1939, he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison and a farce of... |
Dervla Murphy Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years later, she set out to achieve her ambition. Her epic journey began during ... | Eric Newby A classic of travel writing, 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on... |
David Howarth; Andy McNab A World War Two epic of escape and endurance | |
Heinrich Harrer; Richard Graves A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. | Francis Parkman; Bernard Rosenthal The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. His detailed description of the journey, set against the vast majesty of the... |
Beryl Markham ERNEST HEMINGWAY wrote to a friend: 'She can write rings around all of us . . . I wish you would get it and read it because it is really... | Isabella L. Bird; Pat Barr 'This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey' Dervla Murphy, THE IRISH TIMES |