Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs / Adventures & Explorers

A legend among mountaineers, Doug Scott's expeditions, undertaken over a period of four decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalayas to New Zealand, Patagonia, Yosemite and Alaska. It includes his famous 'epic' on The Ogre, one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb.

This book offers the first full length biography of legendary explorer Mungo Park for over forty years. Tracing the expeditions who followed him it documents how and why he was commemorated long after his death. This is not simply one of the great stories of world exploration but a rich and varied account of Africa and its cultures at the time.

Two newly discovered ships which sank in the Arctic ice 170 years ago may hold clues to the fate of explorer, Captain Francis Crozier, who led the doomed Franklin expedition’s fight for survival. Updated biography with new chapters, maps and photographs.

So Far, So Good recounts the story of an ordinary man who has enjoyed extraordinary adventures. Paddy Barry explored remote parts of the world, often on his Galway Hooker sailing boat. From Siberia to Tierra del Fuego, Connemara to Malawi, on mountains and on sea, Paddy has endured hardships very few could match.

Hamish Brown, who occupies a special place as a Scottish writer and traveller, turns his wealth of experience into captivating narratives of fascinating people and places; sometimes serious, at times laugh aloud in this new volume.

Walking Through Shadows describes a winter walk in memory of the author’s friend, Clive Dennier, a popular Inverness journalist, who died in Knoydart in March 2013 but whose body was found only some...

Fifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history, published in association with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Color plates.

A memoir of converting a deep-sea trawler into a holiday cruiser, as what began as a love affair with the romance of the sea became a battle to stay afloat - financially and literally.

Pioneering Scottish climber Hamish Brown recollects some of the most interesting moments and larger-than-life personalities in his sixty-some years as an outdoorsman.

Jonathan Bennett lived in an old, unheated campervan for fourteen months, and travelled clockwise all round Britain, surfing every beach he could catch a wave.