Expeditioner

»Hvarföre skulle Lycklige Arabien heta lyckelig och sökas af långväga skepp?»/ Peter Forsskål i sin dagbok 1761 En januarimorgon 1761 lämnade sex män Köpenhamn - en botanist, en filolog, en lantmätare, en läkare, en tecknare, samt deras manlige tj...

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Söderlunds musikaliska språk gör att man rinner genom boken. Det han skriver om klimatförändringarna är givetvis dyster läsning, men ändå lyckas han ingjuta mod i läsaren. Man får andas, liksom sätta sig på en sten få sig lite poesi Expressen Men ...

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Resan med Beagle är Charles Darwins redogörelse för den världsomspännande upptäcktsfärd som satte honom på kurs mot evolutionsteorin. Den han senare skulle lägga fram i det epokgörande verket Om arternas uppkomst. När HMS Beagle lättade ankar från...

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In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6. Reeling from a recent br...

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The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration. 'Bound has a natural flair for storytelling and his narrative cracks along wi...

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**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** 'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure'JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The L...

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"An extraordinary tale of derring-do told in a mesmerising new book via fascinating archive pictures - and worthy of a Hollywood movie too." - Daily Mail "A new book showcasing them all is a fascinating read... The care and dedicati...

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Thunbergs första resa 1772-1773 Åter Kapstaden skeppen ligger på redden packar mina fynd av växter frön insekter och uppstoppade fåglar Jag och Sonnerat* klättrar på Taffelberget blå blomma lyser jag lyckas plocka ett stånd innan Sonnerat tröttnar...

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One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East. Driven by a desire to ...

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I slutet av år 1831 avseglar fartyget HMS Beagle från Plymouth i Storbritannien. Ett av resans syften är att utföra geologiska undersökningar av Sydamerikas kuster. Huvudansvaret för det uppdraget tilldelas en blott 22-årig naturalist från Shrewsb...

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The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the 'unattainable object of our dreams', and the urge to fill in this last great blank space on the map grew irresistib...

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One of the finest mountaineering books. A phenomenal tale of strength and valour. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSON In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club r...

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In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6. Reeling from a recent br...

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"Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping ... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas."-BOOKLIST A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no m...

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In 1953 Hermann Buhl made the first ascent of Nanga Parbat - the ninth-highest mountain in the world, and the third 8,000-metre peak to be climbed, following Annapurna and Everest. It was one of the most incredible and committed climbs ever made. ...

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The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world's fourteen 8,000m peaks. Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake which destroy...

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`If I could choose a place to die, it would be in the mountains.' Clouds from Both Sides is the autobiography of Julie Tullis, the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre peak - Broad Peak - and the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's...

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"Conjures the rasp of the skin runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights..." Sara Wheeler, author of Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica "Ritter manages to articulate all the terribl...

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A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar. 'A beautifully written...

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In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware their ultimate destination lies in the heart of drug cartel country. Having no earthly idea of wher...

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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of ...

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Runt 60 år gamla gav sig Claes-Göran Erson från Kramfors och Björn Leander från Annelöv utanför Landskrona ut på det stora äventyret. Över den grönländska inlandsisen gick de, Björn med en nyläkt ryggskada, det blev ett äventyr och många svåra bes...

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In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to sec...

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Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Award '[A] rollicking Boys' Own adventure' - Spectator 'This heart-stopping personal account of historic Arabia today.' - Compass Magazine Following in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesig...

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'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times a...

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On 25 January 2018, Elisabeth Revol and her climbing partner Tomasz Mackiewicz summited Nanga Parbat, the killer mountain. Situated in the Karakoram, the world's ninth-highest peak is an immense ice-armoured pyramid of rock rising to an altitude o...

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A coffee-table edition of Shackleton's "South", updated to include Frank Hurley's recently discovered photos, and modern images of the wildlife and goegraphy.

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Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed much at all - the journal. The sketchbooks and journals presented here allow us the opportunit...

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'Equal parts an inspiring account of Reeve's determination and adventurous spirit, as well as a field guide to some of the most remote parts of the world, Step by Step is a vivid and fascinating title. Readers may be surprised to learn of his earl...

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