Up to date details on some of the well-known wrecks with revised information used.

One of the best survival stories illustrated with Frank Hurley s superb expedition photographs

A beautifully illustrated survey of 500 years of exploration told through a series of biographical portraits of forty of the most outstanding men and women who discovered our world.

The real story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by 'the world's greatest living explorer' (Guinness Book of Records). From the bestselling author of Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know.

In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic. Yet Franklin, his ships and men were fated never to return. This book gives an account of the worst catastrophe in the history of British exploration, and the dark tales of cannibalism that surround the fate of those involved.