Everest 1922
Mick ConefreyThough it remains by far the world’s most famous mountain, in recent years Everest’s reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses an …
Genre: Travel & Nature
Cathedrals of Steam
Christian WolmarRRP: £10.99
‘Fascinating’ ‘Books of the Year’, Financial Times’London’s twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age… Wolmar brings them to life with the knowledge of an expert and the …
On Animals
Susan Orlean‘Every essay in this book is magnificent… Mesmerizing.’ New York Times’How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age …
Hot Air
Peter StottOurs is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognised?Here, for the first time, …
The Arbornaut
Meg LowmanOne of the world’s first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is both a pioneer in her field – she invented one of the first treetop walkways – and a tireless advocate for the planet. In a voice as infecti …
The Last Lions of Africa
Anthony HamRRP: £14.99
‘Bravely pursued, acutely observed and elegantly told.’ John Vaillant, author of The Tiger’Urgent and important. This moving tale with a heroic cast of characters, leonine and human, is a must-read fo …
The Unreality of Memory
Elisa GabbertRRP: £9.99
‘A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less’Masterly… Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply a sort of distant, retrospective view, like postcards …
The Age of Islands
Alastair BonnettRRP: £9.99
‘Extraordinary… A fascinating and intelligent book.’ Sunday TimesNew islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing …
Flight Lines
Andrew DarbyRRP: £14.99
As the sun lowered and turned Gulf St Vincent fiery, they each called a high-pitched ‘peeooowiii!’, flashed their black wing-pits, spread their tail skirts and took flight.Andrew Darby follows the ody …
The Rome Plague Diaries
Matthew KnealeRRP: £9.99
On the first morning of Rome’s Covid-19 lockdown Matthew Kneale felt an urge to connect with friends and acquaintances and began writing an email, describing where he was, what was happening and what …
The Natural Health Service
Isabel HardmanRRP: £9.99
‘Brilliant’ — Matt HaigIn 2016, Isabel Hardman’s mind, in her own words, ‘stopped working’ as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She took time off on long-term sick leave and despite sev …
Budgerigar
Sarah HarrisRRP: £12.99
Budgies, budgies, budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed, budgerigars are Australia’s gift to the bird world.They know how to count, can grasp simple grammar and have …
Alice to Prague
Tanya HeaslipRRP: £14.99
In 1994, with a battered copy of Let’s Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic.Dismissin …
Autopia
Jon BentleyRRP: £9.99
Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, this technology will itself change enormou …
High Adventure
Mike AllsopRRP: £14.99
Mike Allsop is a dynamo, an airline pilot and mountaineer who ran seven peaks in seven days on seven continents. He’s also a motivational speaker, author of bestseller High Altitude, a husband and the …
The Journey Matters
Jonathan GlanceyRRP: £9.99
What was it really like to take the LNER’s Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King’s Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to S …
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