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The Curious Explorers Illustrated Guide to Exotic Animals A to Z by Marc Martin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From armadillo to zebras, chameleons to quetzals, these exotic animals will surprise and delight. No curious explorer should be without Marc Martin's stunning celebration of strange and beautiful creatures from all over the world. Here is a book of wonder, a unique and breathtaking treasure from one of ...Show more
Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery and Adventure by Huw Lewis-Jones
$60.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed much at all - the journal. The sketchbooks and journals presented here allow us the opportunity to share, through their own eyes and thoughts, the on-t ...Show more
The Polar Bear Explorers' Club (#1 Explorers' Club) by Alex Bell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: The Explorers' Club
A precocious young girl is determined to prove herself as an explorer in the first novel in the whimsical Polar Bear Explorers' Club series.Stella Starflake Pearl knows, without a doubt, that she was born to be an adventurer. It's too bad girls are forbidden from becoming explorers.But Stella's father h ...Show more
Atlas Obscura - An Explorers Guide To the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Atlas Obscura Ser.
From the founders of Atlas Obscura.com, the online destination for wonder and curiosity -- with over five million active monthly users -- comes a book like no other, featuring over 600 lushly illustrated entries on wondrous, curious, eccentric and bizarre locales: from the bone museums of Italy to the s ...Show more
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland
$27.00 AUD
$29.99 (9% off)
Category: General
Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life. Wilfred Thes ...Show more
The Explorers: Text Classics by Tim Flannery
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent. This compelling anthology documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us into a world of dang ...Show more
The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala by Kevin Costner & Jon Baird
$45.00 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
The golden age of adventure stories returns with this splendidly designed, action-packed, globe-trotting tale that combines the bravura storytelling of Kipling with the irresistible style of "The Adventures of Tintin." Behind the staid public rooms of an old world gentlemen's club operates a more myster ...Show more
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World, was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discove ...Show more
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book by Joyce Morgan; Conrad Walters
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Globe Pequot Ser.
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist t ...Show more
Explorers on the Moon (Tintin #17) by Herge
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Adventures of Tintin
Hergé's classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most iconic characters in children's books. These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old and new. Perfect for lovers of graphic novels, mysteries and historical adventures. The world's most famous t ...Show more