Book Review – The Third Pole
This book by Mark Synnott explores the expedition to Mount Everest to discover the body of Andrew \'Sandy\' Irvine, who ...
Book Review – The Last Wild Men of Borneo
In The Last Wild Men of Borneo, author Carl Hoffman tells the stories of two Westerners who spent their lives ...
Book Review – Kon-Tiki
Norweigan explorer Thor Heyerdahl had a theory that the islands of the Pacific Ocean could have been first settled by ...
Book Review – The Stowaway
A young teenage boy in 1920s New York is determined to set out on the adventure of a lifetime to ...
Book Review – Tracks
When Robyn Davidson arrived in Alice Springs in 1975 she had a crazy plan to journey 1700 miles across the ...
Adventure Books to take on your travels
If you like reading books about travel and adventure here is my list of recommendations As a traveller, I find ...
Film Review: The Bikes of Wrath
The Bikes of Wrath follows five Australian friends as they attempt to cycle 2,600 kilometres from Sallisaw, Oklahoma to the ...
Book Review – No picnic on Mount Kenya
Confined to an endless cycle of boredom and frustration, one prisoner, Felice Benuzzi, realizes he can bear it no longer. ...
Book Review – Into Thin Air
In the 1990s John Krakauer was a contributor to Outside Magazine, a renown adventure publication when in 1996 they asked ...
Book Review – Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
This is the incredible story of a group of mostly young and inexperienced men who find themselves stranded in one ...
Book Review – Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
This book captures a remarkable story of bravery, grit and determination. In August 1914 the 28 man crew of the ...
Book Review: Blood River – A journey to Africa’s broken heart
In 1874 the journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley navigated the River Congo for the first time (as a foreign ...
Book Review: Touching the Void – An inspiring story of survial
I have never even been tempted to climb mountains. I am not a thrill-seeker, at least one who wants to ...
Book Review: Running the Amazon – A crazy journey along the World’s longest river
Despite his lack of experience of water adventure, in 1995 Joe Kane joined a group of adventurers intent on being ...
Book Review: The River of Doubt – Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
\"The River of Doubt\" by Candice Millard sets out to tell the story of Roosevelt and his partners in their ...
Film Review: Pedal The World
The documentary, Pedal the World, available on Netflix is the amazing story of a young German, Felix Starck who ...
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