Fergus Fleming

Home of the Six-Foot Penguin

Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice

By Gillen D’Arcy Wood

Maren Meinhardt

From Tahiti to the Terror

Georg Forster: Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

By Jürgen Goldstein (Translated by Anne Janusch)

Tom Pocock

Quite Close Enough

The Devil's Mariner: William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer

By Anton Gill

Christopher Ondaatje

Boldly Going

The Faber Book of Exploration

By Benedict Allen

Peter Moore

Object Lesson

Robert Mayhew

Snow Problem

To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

By Edward J Larson

Sarah Wheeler

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Selkirk's Island

By Diana Southami

Sara Wheeler

Tales of Derring-Do

Barrow's Boys

By Fergus Fleming

Jason Burke

Cultural Desert

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures

By Charlie English

Roland Huntford

Off His Crocker

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

By David Welky

Fergus Fleming

All Over the Poyais

The Phantom Atlas: The Greater Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

Peter Moore

Scorbutic Sketches

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

By Jonathan Lamb

Kathryn Hughes

Kings of their own Castles

Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa

By Frank McLynn

Peter Moore

Marooned with a View

Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness

By Andrew Lambert

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

The Sweet Name of Parkyns

The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns

By Duncan Cumming

Peter Moore

From Plymouth to Polynesia

Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the ‘Endeavour’ Voyage 1768–1771

By Neil Chambers