• The true story of Steven Callahan alone and adrift at sea for 76 days
  • Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.
  • One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told—Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and one inspired act of bravery.
  • This book tells the gripping story of Bonington’s Boys, a band legendary climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss.
  • Harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.
  • A collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks and often in the worst possible conditions.
  • Takes you off the map to those few places where true discovery is still possible. Audio for the armchair traveller.
  • The first known navigators were the Phoenicians, who 3000 years ago sailed the Mediterranean and beyond from their base near modern Lebanon. Justinian's mission to China in the 6th century A.D., th...
  • Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were ambushed by a horrific surprise storm just southeast of Cape Cod.
  • First it is the tale of four men who, in 1743, were marooned in the Arctic for six years with supplies for only one day, and secondly, it is a contemporary author's search to retrace their steps an...
  • The actor and writer reads the account of his third and most ambitious world adventure: an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific.
  • Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them.
  • An audio anthology of stories from two of the most feared peaks in the world including tales of early exploration through to more recent tragedies.
  • Michael Palin reads his own account of an epic journey across the Himalaya in his sixth international expedition.
  • Robb White knows everything there is to know about getting on the water and staying there as long as you possibly can. While still a young boy, he built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an...
  • This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen mont...
  • "He'd rope the devil and tie him down—if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of "Buffalo Jones," one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive t...
  • The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey.
  • The personal story of a survivor of the doomed 1996 Mt. Everest expedition.
  • In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party...
  • The author reads his own book unabridged, bringing out all the humour and evocation of time and place which feature throughout his examination of one of the twentieth century's most colourful legends
  • A horendous plane crash saw many members of a top Uruguayan rugby team killed, this is the moving true story of survival against all the odds...
  • In his latest voyage of discovery Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe.
  • The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
  • In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon.
  • This is the first full account in nearly half a century of this voyage into history: a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.
  • Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again.
  • Riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places.
  • Determined to pin down mythical tales of his own clan history, Pete is thrust into a world-wide adventure that reveals an unsettled and poignant history, while unearthing a good pint in the most...
  • In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to set their sights on the stars.
  • Tales of why men and women are drawn to the sea and the battles they find there; savage storms, rough waves, mountainous icebergs, sharks, starvation.
  • Periods of difficult travel will be repaid with new sights and sounds, people, languages, food and customs.
  • Jouney to find the man behind the myth, from the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats to his secret life as a spy, and the pernicious plot to subvert his legacy.
  • Gripping stories of what happens when people find themselves caught up in treacherous weather - or when it finds them.
  • Young American sea captain James Riley, shipwrecked off the coast of north Africa in 1815, was captured by nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. This dramatic account of Riley's trials and suffering...
  • Selection of stories full of suffering, compassion, genuine courage and how bad things can get when events transpire against us.
  • In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River.
  • In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies.
  • Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have remained unexplored until recently ...
  • A classic collection of traveller's tales from the wilderness, forest, desert, glacier and jungle.
  • David Attenborough, Britain's voice of natural history, narrates his early adventures in the wilds of Indon...