 | South: The "Endurance" Expedition: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £1.93 No one can say how he will fare in extremis, but: as A-CG said "...if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time."
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 | The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.49 The Daddy. A masterpiece from another world. Wrap up and get the fire going before you start reading. "If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward" (A-C.G.)
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 | Congo Journey by Redmond O'Hanlon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Next best thing to having leeches on yer legs. O'Hanlon has a talent for getting into trouble, and an even better one for writing about it.
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 | Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.01 . O'Hanlon again. Mostly about fish, but the nearest you want to get to Trawling in a force 12. Read him, meet him if you can by all means, but don't go on trips with this man!
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 | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Books) by Eric Newby
Buy used from: £0.01 Englishmen abroad again - charmingly well and wryly told, with a meeting with Wilfred Thesiger at the end. Time in Newby's company is well spent.
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 | Long John Silver by Bjorn Larsson
Buy used from: £0.01 Treasure Island the hard way - how Long John got his name (Barbeque), and more. Blistering good stuff, me hearties, great for Holidays and Airports.
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 | The Requiem Shark by Nicholas Griffin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 More pirating with Welshman and Parrots. Written with a druid's ear. Aharr.
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 | The Southseaman (Mariners library; no.33) by Weston Martyr
Buy used from: £74.82 Bored at work? Build ship, sail ship, burn ship. Authentic tale of shipbuilding in Nova Scotia: a real gem. Sadly now out of print, but copies around.
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 | The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw: Shadow and Claw Vol 1 (Fantasy Masterworks) by Gene Wolfe
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £2.00 OK, so it's not quite plain vanilla adventure - but so good, included in list. Intelligent adventure in the far (and intelligently imagined) future. With a few nods to Borges.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Magical tale of a shipwreck, with tiger, Japanese investigators, and an orang-utan. What more could you want? By someone who knows the sea, or sounds convincing!
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 | Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard
Buy used from: £7.74 Blundering around Africa in pith helmets.
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 | Papillon by Henri Charriere
Buy used from: £0.01 True story of escape from Devil's Island
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 What happens when adventures like Newby's go wrong. Ice cold all the way through: amongst the very best on climbing.
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 When things go wrong, again: strong writing convinces you that's what it must have felt like. I don't ever want to find out!
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 | The White Spider: The story of the North Face of the Eiger by Heinrich Harrer
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.21 A plain, unvarnished tale - Herr Harrer is separated from us by time and nationality - but what a great tale. They were iron men in those days!
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