Famous Journeys

By Eric Newby An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last `grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby...

H W Tilman With a Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston ‘So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming bir...

This trilogy tells how Ian Nicolson, yachtsman, naval architect and author, joined a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 45-foot ketch Maken from ...

*A Newstatesman Book of the Year*' Nimble, vital, unexpectedly affecting' Observer Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for ...

H W Tilman With a Foreword by Libby Purves ‘Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat.No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure’ So read the c...

By John Steinbeck In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebra...

By John Vallentine & Maxine Maters In 2012 Russia began opening its vast network of inland waterways to foreign pleasure craft. A year later, ...

By Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure wa...

H W Tilman With a Foreword by Tony Howard Upon this trackless waste of snow, cut by a shrewd wind, they sat down and wept. In China to Chitral H.W...

By H. W. Bill Tilman The eight books collected here are humorous, learned, devastatingly candid, and packed with information. They recount voyages ...

Arthur Ransome’s account of his maiden voyage in his beloved Racundra, which took him from Latvia, via Estonia, to Finland and back in 1922.By: Ar...

By Jonathan Raban 'Raban is, for my money, one of the key writers of the past three decades - not only for his immense stylistic showmanship, but ...

'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...'Scholar, spy, d...

By Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest member...

The Summer Voyage from East to West Scotland of the Anassa By Mairi Hedderwick In Sea Change, writer and artist Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-w...

Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world singlehandedly - Adrian Flanagan. Sailing horizontally is difficult enough, crossing th...

By John Caldwell In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year....

By Joshua Slocum Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventu...

This is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back ...

**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**' Weymouth combines ...

By Roald Amundsen An Account of the Norwegian Antartctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-12

On 21 February 1968, Wally Herbert and his team of three companions and forty huskies set out from Point Barrow, Alaska, embarking on a journey tha...

By Hampton Sides The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as t...

H W Tilman With a Foreword by Bob Shepton I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the p...