<p>On 5th February 2000 Sir Ranulph Fiennes set off on the most direct - and most difficult - route to the North Pole from Canada. It involved towing a heavily laden sledge over 425 nautical miles of broken ice and open sea fractures. In fact, it is more like 900 miles because the ice drifts backwards. This is an account of the journey, which takes four to five months and during which Fiennes loses more than a third of his bodyweight.</p>

Beyond the Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures

Travel

Fiennes, Ranulph, Sir

Australia & South Pacific

Little, Brown, UK

In 1997 a  journal is found in an all weather shelter in Antarctica. Travelling back to England the finder reads an extraordinary story of depravation, war, survival and the thirst for revenge.  It is the autobiography of Derek Jacobs, who as a child was an inmate of the Nazi concentration camps where he saw his mother horrifically abused, particularly by one man.  Unlike his mother, he survives the camps and the death march to be brought up in Canada.  There, as a young man forging a career in the environment movement, he comes across the same man.  The meeting unblocks the suppressed memories of his childhood and Derek savours the heady flavour of revenge.  He is co-opted by 'The Secret Hunters' and with dogged patience they track their prey through a web of intermediaries, discovering that he and his cohorts believe they can re-establish the fascist state.  On a secret mission to mine valuable minerals in the Antarctic Derek confronts him.  The result is deadly - but for which man?

The Secret Hunters

Literature & Fiction

Little,Brown & Company

Mind over Matter: The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent

An noted adventurer describes his ninety-seven-day, two-man,  unsupported journey across the icy wilderness of Antarctica, offering a  vivid narrative of the physical and mental challenges of the epic  journey. Tour.

Chivers North Amer

<p>This is the account of Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 24-year search for the lost city of Ubar, the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Arabian Desert. The existence of Ubar has been reported by many travellers over the centuries including Marco Polo, Ibn Batuta and Bertram Thomas. Having searched for the site for many years, Sir Ranulph teamed up with an American film-maker in 1968 to track down the likely site. A complete excavation is being carried out with the support of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos of Oman in the remote Bedouin village of Shisr and will take up to ten years. The author's other books include his autobiography "Living Dangerously" and "The Feather Men".</p>

Atlantis of the Sands: The Search for the Lost City of Ubar

History

Africa

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

Race To The Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, And Scott's Antarctic Quest

Contemporary

Chivers Sound Library

Living Dangerously

Brought up in South Africa, he never knew his father, who had died in the Italian Campaign the year before he was born. Ranulph followed his father's path into the Royal Scots Greys. After that came the SAS, from which he was dismissed for blowing up an American film set at the idyllic Cotswold village of Castle Combs, then two vicious years as a volunteer fighting communist insurgents in Oman. Then began the series of expeditions for which Fiennes is best known and which caused The Guinness Book of Records to hail him in 1984 as 'the world's greatest living explorer.' Up the White Nile in a hovercraft, parachuting onto Europe's highest glacier, forcing his way up 4,000 miles of terrifying rivers in northern Canada and Alaska, overland to the North Pole and to the ends of the earth, across the world's axis-the Transglobe Expedition-which took ten years from conception to completion. He writes here too about his attempt to reach the North Pole without dogs or motorised equipment, beating the world record by 300 miles, his determination to find the lost city of Urbar in the Arabian desert and, finally, his extraordinary journey across the Antarctic Continent via the South Pole. Living Dangerously is a remarkable testament from a remarkable man.

Biographies & Memoirs

Long Riders Guild Pr

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