Adventures & Exploration

World-renowned adventurer and broadcaster, Bear Grylls, presents some of the most incredible near-death experiences, told by those who lived to tell the tale....

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society....

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms....

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it....

From the bestselling author of Walking the Nile, explorer Levison Wood begins his next challenging adventure - walking the length of the Himalayas....

The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

The unmissable new book about the worlds beneath our feet - from the best-selling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Old Ways and The Lost Words....

Twenty years ago Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country....

Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did....

Before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain....

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed....

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin's adventures is a voyage of epic proportions - the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim....

In his major new work, Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter - brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus....

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

Australia's best-selling nonfiction author of all time. Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer....

With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure....

Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia's landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity....

Trust the locals and save thousands of dollars on your trip to Disney....

Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....

In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet - climbing Everest for the British Red Cross....

In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain....

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were - for most Brits and Americans - part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards....

This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....

Believing that a good, interesting life is marked by quality, not quantity....

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Newcomer of the Year, 2006.
Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job and finds out what the French are really like....

Following the Equator is an evocative and highly unique American portrait of 19-century travel and customs....