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  • Arabian Sands

    by Wilfred Thesiger ...
    Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. With vivid descriptions and colorful anecdotes he narrates ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Arabian Sands

    by Wilfred Thesiger, Laurence Kennedy ...
    Narrated by Laurence Kennedy ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 59 min

    Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Travelling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, The Empty Quarter, Oman and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of this most inhospitable terrain. He was the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Marsh Arabs

    by Wilfred Thesiger ...
    Narrated by Laurence Kennedy ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds. Now extinct, their ancient way of life is speculated to have existed for 5,000 years, going back to the days of ancient Sumer, and possessed a unique culture found nowhere else in the Middle East. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An Audio Bundle: Wild & Survive

    by Jack London, Jack London, Evelyn Waugh, Norman Maclean, Redmond O’Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson, Algernon Blackwood; Steven Callahan, Mark Twain, Virginia Reed Murphy, J. Ross Browne0, Lennard Bickel1, Richard Cunningham2, Herman Melville3, Daniel Zalewski4, Patrick O'Brian5 ...
    Narrated by Albert Coia6, Richard Rohan7, Nick Sampson; Colleen Delany8, Nick Sampson9, Erik Synnestvedt0, Gary Telles1 ...
    Series series An Audio Bundle

    Unabridged

    13 hours 12 min

    . YALSA Award Winner - Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults · Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner. The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Road to Oxiana

    by Robert Byron, Barnaby Edwards ...
    Narrated by Barnaby Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    In 1933, Robert Byron set off from Venice with his friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. Their long and arduous journey took them from Cyprus and Jerusalem to Syria, Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, and finally Oxiana, a tiny country around the river Oxus, the Greek name for the river Amu Darya, which snakes down from Russia into Afghanistan. They travel by any ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is the epic tale of the disastrous "Winter expedition" of the Author and his two companions- Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson - all members of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole, who attempted a scientific expedition in the midst of the Antarctic Winter - in the coldest temperatures found on Planet Earth.At the behest ... Read more

    $2.49 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Road to Oxiana

    by Robert Byron ...
    In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Antarctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers

    by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen ...
    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole.In this carefully selected Anthology we present the personal accounts of the greatest early explorers of Antarctica: Captain Robert Falcon ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Luck of the Karluk

    Shipwrecked in the Arctic

    by L.D. Cross ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community. Little did the team of distinguished scholars and scientists realize, however, how their hopes would ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Arctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Arctic Explorers

    by Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson ...
    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The stories of the first explorers of the Arctic and the North Pole have always been somewhat overshadowed by the famous and tragic race for the South Pole a decade later. In truth the story is no less riveting to the reader, in terms of bravery, resilience and determination.What is more, in an extra dimension to the story there is the enduring controversy over who was in fact the first to make it ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The North West Passage Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Explorers of the North-West Passage

    by Roald Amundsen, Richard Hakluyt, Robert McClure ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    “The Northwest Passage Exploration Anthology”, features the first-hand personal accounts of explorers: Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, John Rae, John Franklin, Thomas Simpson, Peter Warren Dease, William Edward Parry and Richard Hakluyt.This book charts the full history of the exploration of the legendary “Northwest Passage” – the sea-lane around the frozen Northern shore of the North American ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Captain Scott

    by Ranulph Fiennes ...
    Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through; he has suffered all but the final tragedy endured by the much maligned Scott. He is determined to put the record straight.As well as being the definitive biography ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD