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In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier - a route first pioneered in 1951 by …

'The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.'In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest account, Stephen Venables invites …

"Portugal is not all that far away, or exotic, or dangerous, but it felt like a huge stretch for me to leave my partner, family, job and home and just go off. An overland solo trip …

America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America’s primary border for …

Carl Lumholtz (1851–1922) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer who, soon after publishing an influential study of Australian Aborigines (also reissued in the Cambridge Library …

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, …

Elias Lönnrotin ensimmäinen runonkeruuretki Itä-Suomeen alkaa Sammatista ja jatkuu aina Valamoon ja Nurmekseen saakka päättyen lopulta Kuopion ja Tampereen kautta Laukkoon. Lönnrot …

Martin Strel looks like your typical middle-aged bloke. He likes a laugh, a drink and the sight of a pretty woman. But put him in water and he turns into a swimming machine. In …

‘A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn’t write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time … that is why my book is not in …

Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha …