Our Book Shelf

Our Books Shelf contains some of our most prized possessions. From our personal expedition maps and journals, covered in notes and scribblings to our awards and trinkets, but most important for us is our collection of author signed books and journals.

These author signed books and journals are our escape to another world, they inspire our thinking, shape our dreams and spark our curiosity. On this page we have listed some of the books contained within our collection, as well as some that we think are worth reading.

At the bottom of each of the book reviews you will find a shopping link if you would like to purchase the book for yourself, by following the link and shopping with our code you will be donating directly to the Curiosity Fund and the work it does in the field.

Remember that no time spent exploring the far lung corners of the globe through the written word is complete without a good cup of coffee so brew your favourite blend, stoke the fire and enjoy exploring.

 

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‘The Whale in the Living Room’ follows the thrilling adventures of award-winning wildlife documentary producer, John Ruthven, on a journey of discovery – by turns memorable, touching,

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Icelandic author and activist Andri Snaer Magnason’s ‘Letter to the Future’ – an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjoekull glacier – made global news and was shared by millions.

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The Earthshot concept is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need the world’s best solutions and one shared goal: to save our planet.

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‘Rewilding’ is the first popular book on the ground-breaking science behind the restoration of wild nature. As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and 

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Enjoy the best-selling memoir of Charles Darwin’s journey of discovery aboard the HMS Beagle–now fully illustrated for the first time. The Voyage of the Beagle is Darwin’s

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In December of 2013, Alex Hibbert led an international quartet of polar travellers to the extreme north of Arctic Greenland. After a huge storm destroyed their intended route

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On Monday 18th September 2017, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes earlier he set off from the same point, beginning his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time.

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Isabella Bird travelled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: ‘an invalid at home and a Samson abroad’. In Japan she rode on a ‘yezo savage’ through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks, and was 

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As the First World War broke out in Europe in 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed to Antarctica, with the King and government’s blessing. Intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing, ‘South!’ is Shackleton’s first-hand account of the epic expedition

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One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart. From a leading cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey, this new collection of maps and data reveals Antarctica as we have never seen it before.

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