Philip Hoare

The Original Queequeg

The Captain and ‘the Cannibal’: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

By James Fairhead

Thomas Hodgkinson

Right To Roam

Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

By Richard Grant

Christopher Ondaatje

A Fine Young Cannibal

The White Headhunter

By Nigel Randell

Andrew Taylor

On the Wrong Side of Progress

FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast

By John and Mary Gribbin

Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World

By Peter Nichols

Jeremy Lewis

Well Met By Moonlight

Words of Mercury

By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper (ed)

Justin Marozzi

Perishing Pioneers

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Searchh for Timbuktu

By Anthony Sattin

Andrew Taylor

The Price of Heroism

Captain Scott

By Rannulph Fiennes

The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice

By Max Jones

Andrew Taylor

Death Became Him

Over The Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By Laurence Bergreen

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Navigator of the North

Bering: The Russian Discovery of America

By Orcutt Frost

Christopher Ondaatje

In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

In Search of Nomads: An English Obsession From Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin

By John Ure

Christabel King

The Explorer’s Wife

The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa

By Pat Shipman

Justin Marozzi

Title Chasing

Josiah The Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King

By Ben Macintyre

Steve King

For Love Of The Desert

The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English Patient

By John Bierman

Christopher Lee

One Man’s Museum

The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House

By Anne Sebba

Steve King

A Honey Calling

Digger

By Max Anderson

John Hemming

The Girth of the Earth

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon

By Robert Whitaker

Alan Rafferty

Of All the Gin Joints in All the World

Rowing to Alaska and Other True Stories

By Wayne McLennan

Nick Smith

A Native of the Ends of the Earth

Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic

By Michael Smith

Sara Wheeler

Child Of The Pole

The Explorer's Daughter: A Young Englishwoman Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood

By Kari Herbert

John Man

Battle for the Bactrians

Mysteries of the Gobi: Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia

By John Hare