Exploration and expeditions gifts

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing is one of the most remarkable tales of human courage and determination ever told. Set against the backdrop of one of the harshest environments on Earth, this narrative offers a riveting depiction of true adventure and fortitude. In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, along with his crew of 27 men, embarked on an ambitious...

Sea People by Christina Thompson is a riveting historical exploration that delves into the mysterious origins and epic journeys of the Polynesians—one of the world's most enigmatic and adventurous seafaring peoples. The narrative unfolds over a thousand years ago, focussing on how these master navigators discovered and colonised the far-flung islands within a vast triangle from Hawaii to New Zealand...

Wingspan: Oceania Expansion focuses on birds in Australia and New Zealand. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features birds illustrated by Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez. In this second expansion to Wingspan, colourful and awe-inspiring birds from Oceania are added. The Oceania bird cards are designed to be shuffled into the bird cards from the base game, with or...

This fourth Wingspan expansion explores the birds of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. This incredibly biodiverse and abundant region is home to more than 3,000 bird species, including the birds with the smallest and largest wingspans in the world (the Bee Hummingbird and Snowy Albatross, respectively). Hummingbirds make up about one-tenth of the bird species in Latin...

A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica **A Times Best Book of 2021** The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter August 1897: The Belgica set sail,...

An Immersive Railway Adventure, where you build your company success, game after game. 2-5 Players  |  20-90 Mins  |  Ages 10+ Learn as you play for a new experience: add new rules as you unlock content and discover surprises. An exclusive Ticket to Ride story: embark on a journey against rival players and Mama O’Connell, the evil railroad Baroness! A...

Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time. The Sunday Times Bestseller - the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time. On the first, she ventured further south than any...

Explore an island to find resources and discover the lost ruins of Arnak.  1-4 Players  |  30-120 Mins  |  Ages 12+ Features: Contracts, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Market, Multi-Use Cards, Once-Per-Game Abilities, Resource to Move, Solo / Solitaire Game, Turn Order: Progressive, Worker Placement Theme: Adventure, Ancient, Exploration, Travel Description:  On an uninhabited island in uncharted seas, explorers have...

This epic story begins 5000 years ago, when the ancestors of Polynesians discovered ways to see over the horizon to find and settle new islands. As their landfinding skills grew, these people took ever bigger strides across the vast Pacific until they reached South America. It was not until almost every habitable island scattered across the world's largest ocean was...

1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies presents a revolutionary argument that challenges the traditional history of global exploration. On 8 March 1421, an immense fleet, the largest the world had ever witnessed, set sail from China. These mighty ships, some stretching nearly five hundred feet in length, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal...

Unsurmountable is the third game in the Button Shy Simply Solo series. These are games that are one player only, light on rules, and big on replayability. You've climbed all of the mightiest mountains: Kilimanjaro, Everest, K2. Yet there's one towering titan that's always eluded you. The mountain where anything can happen. In the whisper-thin air the paths twist and...

Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet Scotland Planning Map is your essential navigation tool. This full-colour map features accompanying images and information about top attractions, itinerary suggestions, a transport guide, themed lists, and practical travel tips. Durable and waterproof Easy-fold format and convenient size Handy slipcase Full colour and easy to use Before-you-go...

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is a timeless classic of travel literature that chronicles one of the most harrowing expeditions ever undertaken. As one of the youngest members of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica (1910-1913), Cherry-Garrard provides an intimate and vivid account of the trials and tribulations faced by the team...

Dive into a multi-layered pattern-building adventure with the vibrant marine life of the Great Barrier Reef. 1-4 Players | 30-45 Mins | Ages 14+ Dive into the vibrant world of Shallow Sea, a puzzle board game inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. In Shallow Sea, players will create their very own vivid ocean landscapes by strategically...

One man's lust for empire sent fifteen people into the Arctic - only one came back. 1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future - air routes, resources, even the balance of power in the northern hemisphere,...

Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms - Adventures in Faerûn LANDS UNTOLD. SECRETS UNEARTHED—Create endless D&D adventures across the Forgotten Realms—where Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and other storied lands await. CRAFT UNFORGETTABLE ADVENTURES—Adventures in Faerûn gives Dungeon Masters the tools to craft unforgettable tales in this legendary world. More details coming soon! Contents: Level 1–3 intro adventure and 51 short adventures...

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. "An absolute joy... Wanderlust is a compelling introduction to one of the most charismatic explorers to ever cross the ice."—New York Times Book Review Deep in the Arctic...

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a compelling firsthand account of the young naturalist's earth-shattering expedition aboard the HMS Beagle. Setting sail from Devonport on 27 December 1831, the twenty-two-year-old Darwin embarked on a journey that would reshape the world of science. Though initially a leisurely voyage along the South American coast, the adventure broadened into a...

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer is an extraordinary tale of endurance, adventure, and friendship that provides a rare glimpse into the secluded world of Tibet during a tumultuous epoch. The story recounts the incredible journey of Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer, who finds himself imprisoned in India by the British at the outbreak of the Second World War. Following...

Cook’s Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook’s H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship’s cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as storyteller. Through real recipes, events on board, and the places the ship travelled on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here are stories of social class, hierarchy, and race; stories of explorers and the people of...

Lands of Lost Borders is an electrifying travelogue and memoir that recounts Kate Harris's audacious journey along the ancient Silk Road. With an insatiable thirst for adventure and discovery, Harris sets off on a bicycle expedition with her childhood friend Mel. Together, they traverse some of the most remote and inhospitable terrains on Earth, peddling through deserts, mountains, and the...

In Vagabonding, Rolf Potts, a veteran travel writer, presents a groundbreaking guide to long-term travel that encourages readers to take an extended break from their daily routines and embrace the exciting world of exploration. Whether you dream of travelling for six weeks, four months, or even two years, Potts provides a blueprint for how to make these adventures a reality...

Expansion for Forest Shuffle. Enjoy new caves, a solo with the Automa, and a selection of promo cards. 1-5 Players | 60 Mins | Ages 10+ Features: Chaining, End Game Bonuses, Hand Management, Layering, Multi-Use Cards, Open Drafting, Set Collection, Solo / Solitaire Game, Tags, Variable Player Powers Theme: Expansion for Base-game, Animals, Card Game, Educational, Environmental, Exploration, Territory Building...

The gripping untold story of Britain’s first Antarctic expedition — a daring journey that launched the legendary careers of Scott and Shackleton. Before Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic race to the South Pole and Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Endurance, there was Discovery, the expedition that began it all. Discovery was Britain’s first Antarctic expedition, where Scott, Shackleton and their crew battled scurvy,...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death. This is the extraordinary account of treacherous...

Get ready to travel across the world and back into history, to meet some of the world's greatest explorers in this big fun, fully illustrated reference book. Readers will learn about both famous—and these days sometimes controversial—names, such as Columbus, Magellan, and Roald Amundsen, plus little-known ones, from a broad range of cultures and backgrounds. These include Jeanne Bare, the...

Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his catastrophic failures. Instead he was a courageous innovator who pushed the boundaries of polar exploration and paved the way for the ultimate conquest of the North Pole-which would...

A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing, translated into English by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone. In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission, he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs,...

"Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he wrote, 'I see little chance for any of us'. In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day comes Undaunted Courage, the definitive account of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, widely regarded as the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. Set in the early 19th century, Undaunted Courage chronicles the epic journey...

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration— the fateful final journey of Captain James Cook. In July 1776, Captain James Cook began his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, in Hawaii, Cook was killed—stabbed by the indigenous population. What brought Cook to this...

Earn Grit and Superstition Gold by traveling the Arizona Trail  1-4 Players  |  40-160 Mins  |  Ages 14+ Features: End Game Bonuses, Pattern Building, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection, Turn Order: Claim Action Theme: Adventure, American West, Animals, Educational, Exploration Description: Travel the spectacular 800 mile long Arizona Trail as you take in the sights and sounds of the mountains, canyons,...

Root: the Roleplaying Game is a game of woodland creatures fighting for money, justice, and freedom from powers far greater than them. You play vagabonds, outcasts from the normal society of the woodlands who have come to live in the spaces between, whether that’s in the forests them- selves or on the fringes of society. Based on the Root: A...

One of the best cooperative games of all time, the award-winning Robinson Crusoe returns in this new edition from Portal Games. Based on the Game of the Year edition previously released in Poland, Germany, Spain, and France, it elevates this amazing game to a whole new level. In this edition, players will find custom wooden pieces for all resources, thick...

An epic Tomb Raider adventure across an action-packed board game. 1+ Players | 20-180 Mins | Ages 14+ Features: Action / Event, Dice Rolling, Die Icon Resolution, Point to Point Movement, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Solo / Solitaire Game, Tile Placement Theme: Adventure, Exploration, Miniatures, Video Game Theme An epic Tomb Raider adventure unfolds in this action-packed game....

Follow Tupaia as he grows up in Ra'iātea, becoming a high-ranking 'arioi and master navigator. Join him as he meets up with Cook in Tahiti and sails as part of the crew on the Endeavour across the Pacific to Aotearoa. Witness the encounters between tangata whenua and the crew as the ship sails around the coast, and discover the important...

Together, they have taken on the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success; never giving up, and never giving up on each other. This is the story of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica and the memorable characters, who with a band of shaggy ponies and savage dogs, follow a man they trust into...

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragon Delves: An Adventure Anthology Meet the dragons of D&D in Dragon Delves, a collection of ten dragon-themed adventures for characters level 1 through 12. Featuring artwork rendered in ten unique styles, these ready-to-play adventures include streamlined prep and quick start guides for Dungeon Masters. Delve into mysterious dungeons, explore captivating fantasy locations, and come face to...

100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure, and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood has gathered 100 of the most fascinating accounts of human endurance throughout history. From the heroism of Antarctic explorers to...

A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the...

National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer." In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it's still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even...

Antarctica. Winter 1912. Hunkering down in the windiest place on earth, eighteen young Australians eagerly await a chance to prove themselves as polar explorers and scientists. The spring sledging season will bring adventure, danger, and the discovery of new lands under the command of Douglas Mawson. But tragedy also lies in wait. Douglas Mawson's tale is legendary, an epic struggle...

From the award-winning science writer Lauren Fuge comes Voyagers, an expansive narrative that weaves together personal journey, historical recount, and urgent environmental commentary. This compelling book takes you from the rugged fjords of the Pacific Northwest to the ancient geology of Australia's outback, and even to the far reaches of the cosmos. Fuge delves deep into humankind's intrinsic desire to...

Haunting and searingly beautiful, Erebus has attracted explorers, mountaineers, artists, and scientists; each drawn to the mountain by their own particular vision or curiosity. The mountain is a truly unique geological phenomenon — an active volcano sheathed in ice, with hundreds of ice caves, steaming towers 6 metres high around its summit, and a lava lake. Also, in the minds...

Explore a 60 minute game of Land vs Sea with 22 new tiles with new shapes, new artwork and 3 new scoring mechanisms. Score the ley lines you form between distant menhirs. Can you triangulate Menhirs to score more?Add cities to land and sea areas to double the bonus points in them, and the trade routes connected to them.Watch out...

Travelers & Outsiders is a supplement for Root: The Roleplaying Game, the officially licensed tabletop RPG based on the award-winning Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right board game by Leder games. It expands the core game to include the first four expansion factors!

Joseph Kinsey is not a name many of us know— or not as well as we know the name Robert Falcon Scott. But from his base in Christchurch, Kinsey—book and art collector, philanthropist, science enthusiast, businessman—forged deep connections with the Antarctic expeditions and the explorers themselves through his tireless work as the agent for various expeditions. Two other New Zealanders...

An account of a journey on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of Central Africa. Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was informed that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn't really know anything about. He was tasked with going in on foot and taking a...

Get everything you need to adventure in the Forgotten Realms on the exciting Sword Coast, home to the cities of Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and Neverwinter. Crafted by the scribes at Green Ronin in conjunction with the Dungeons & Dragons team at Wizards of the Coast, the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide provides D&D fans with a wealth of detail on the...

Follow in the footsteps of the world's greatest pioneers. Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history - map by map. Charting everything from the movement of early Homo species out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago to the astonishing voyages of Polynesian...

The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name." --Chicago Sun-Times "In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing...

Farther Than Any Man by Martin Dugard is a gripping biography that delves into the life and voyages of one of the most renowned explorers in history, Captain James Cook. This engaging narrative guides readers through Cook's journey from obscurity to greatness, capturing his transformation from a humble farmboy with no maritime experience to a celebrated figure who reshaped the...

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson,...

Tim Jeal's Stanley is a riveting biography that delves into the complex life of one of history's most intriguing figures, Henry Morton Stanley. The narrative takes readers on an extraordinary journey from Stanley's harsh beginnings as an orphan consigned to a Welsh workhouse, to his multifaceted career in America where he fought in the Civil War—on both sides—before transitioning into...