Travel guides and adventures.
In Letters from The Barren Lands: An Epic Journey of Hardship and Privation, modern day adventurer Carsten Iwers has made available for the first-time Captain J.C. Critchell Bullock’s (Lyon 1913-16) own account of the near-fatal winter of 1924-25 he spent with John Hornby (‘The Hermit of the Arctic’) in the Canadian Barren Lands. Using previously … Read more
Storyteller Jerry Haigh shares his adventures as a wildlife veterinarian with the University of Saskatchewan and coming from a clinic at the base of spectacular Mount Kenya in Africa to the flat lands of the Canadian prairies in Saskatchewan. He worked with wild animals such as moose, polar bears and even a toothless old lion: … Read more
After almost a decade of reporting on the exploits of the pro peloton, raconteur Felix Lowe takes to the saddle and sets out to conquer the road from Barcelona to Rome. Powered by local delicacies, painkillers and imaginary fans, Lowe pedals his way through three countries and over three mountain ranges, taking in some of … Read more
Jason Lewis, To the Brink (The Expedition Trilogy, Book 3): True Story of the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Earth. We rejoin The Expedition for its third and final instalment with Jason, now seasoned adventurer, and April, American schoolteacher at sea for the first time, battling to keep their pedal-powered boat Moksha from being dashed against Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. … Read more
Jason Lewis, The Seed Buried Deep (The Expedition Trilogy, Book 2): True Story of the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Earth. When adventurer Jason Lewis regained consciousness beside a busy Colorado highway, lower limbs shattered by a hit-and-run driver, he knew he was lucky to be alive. But would he ever walk again, let alone … Read more
Jason Lewis, Dark Waters (The Expedition Trilogy, Book 1): True Story of the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Earth. He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia’s Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and acute mountain sickness in the Himalayas. He was hit by a car and … Read more
In this volume of collected travel and environmental journalism, Stanley travels from Exmoor to Ecuador, India to Istanbul, and across many other routes. He is charged at by mountain gorillas, encounters pandas, tigers, blue-footed boobies and the elusive blue whale. Dauntless, he climbs Kilimanjaro, catches cold at the Glastonbury festival, tracks down his ancestors in Turkey … Read more
Keith McDougall, A Special Kind of Light; Norfolk and Scottish Landscapes. This book celebrates the landscapes of Norfolk and Scotland through the painting and prose of the author, Keith McDougall. In this book you will find tall skies arching over Norfolk church towers – and paintings of Scottish hills, sweeping glens and sea coasts. This book … Read more
Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house, several manly power tools, a cat, a grand piano and a vintage aircraft. Yet the lovelier his life becomes, the lonelier he feels. Three unfulfilled wishes return to haunt him: to grow a perfect potato, to … Read more
T.F. Robinson, William Roxburgh: The Founding Father of Indian Botany. Born in the mid 18th century, William Roxburgh was brought up in the centre of the Edinburgh Enlightenment, with all the patronage an intellectual curiosity that this entailed. After joining the East India Company as an Assistant Surgeon on one of their ships, he joined … Read more