Second Hand Books

Synopsis Shortlisted for Adventure Travel Book of the Year. In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his la...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Quest For The North Pole. In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an islan...

Synopsis On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Pa...

Synopsis '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...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-yea...

Synopsis After revealing his incredible achievements in the bestselling Cold, Sir Ranulph Fiennes reveals what it's like to live - and survive - in...

Synopsis This work embraces half a lifetime of travelling around the world by train: steaming down the Khyber Pass on the train's front buffers; an...

Synopsis Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before...