In a high-interest format, describes famous escapes from danger, including prison breaks, and escapes from kidnappers, wild animals, and natural disasters. Includes a quiz to test the likelihood of readers ability to escape danger.

More than 80 illustrations enhance these dramatic stories of lives passed in exile. Tales include that of the real-life Robinson Crusoe, plus other adventures from the North Pole to Patagonia.

The definitive manual for planning and undertaking a vehicle-dependent overlanding adventure across the wilds of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Overlanders' Handbook is written in the same entertaining yet clear jargon-free English for which Chris Scott's other books are known - it doesn't assume you know your plug gap from a radiator cap.

?This charming walk runs for 79 miles from Ilkley in the Yorkshire Dales to Bowness in the Lake District. The LDWA has documented Link Routes for walkers beginning in Leeds, Harrogate and Bradford. Along the Way, you'll see impressive railway viaducts and fine stone bridges; Bolton Priory and many small churches; limestone scenery with stone walls, hay meadows and lime kilns; and heritage centers ...

Combining original reporting with dramatic photographs and detailed illustrations, this title looks at the science behind the most devastating events of the past 100 years, including San Francisco's 7.8 earthquake in 1906, the Gulf oil spill, the Apollo 13 Space Mission and Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall near New Orleans.

Take the trail less walked with the new edition of Footprint's acclaimed Cuzco and the Inca Heartland.

Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own firsthand account of this epic adventure.

Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own firsthand account of this epic adventure.

Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own firsthand account of this epic adventure.