OCEANS
Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon-Tiki Expedition, Allen & Unwin, 1950.
—Fatu-Hiva, Allen & Unwin, 1974.
—Aku Ah, the Secret of Easter Island, Allen & Unwin, 1958.
—American Indians in the Pacific, Allen & Unwin, 1952.
—(with E. N. Ferdon) Report of the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific, Allen & Unwin, 1962.
—The Ra Expeditions, Allen & Unwin, 1971.
Arnold Jacoby, Señor Kon-Tiki, Allen & Unwin, 1968.
Francis Chichester, Alone Across the Atlantic, Allen & Unwin, 1961.
—The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Hodder & Stoughton, 1964.
—Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Hodder & Stoughton, 1967.
Robin Knox-Johnston, A World of my Own, Cassell, 1969.
Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall, The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Hodder & Stoughton, 1970.
Nigel Tetley, Trimaran Solo, Nautical Publishing Co.,1970.
Chay and Maureen Blyth, Innocent Aboard, Nautical Publishing Co., 1970.
Bernard Moitessier, The Long Way, Adlard Coles, 1974.
David Lewis, Ice Bird, Collins, 1975.
DESERTS
Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands, Longman, 1959; Collins, 1980.
—Desert, Marsh and Mountain, Collins, 1980.
RIVERS
Richard Snailham, Blue Nile Revealed, Chatto & Windus, 1970.
Chris Bonington, The Next Horizon, Gollancz, 1973; new edition Vertebrate Publishing, 2016.
John Blashford-Snell, Where the Trails Run Out, Hutchinson, 1974.
Mike Jones, Blue Nile expedition report, 1972.
MOUNTAINS
Maurice Herzog, Annapurna, Cape, 1952.
Lionel Terray, Conquistadors of the Useless, Gollancz, 1963.
Eric Shipton, That Untravelled World, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953.
—Life is Meeting, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978.
Edmund Hillary, High Adventure, Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
—Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975.
Wilfrid Noyce, South Col, Heinemann, 1954.
George Lowe, Because It Is There, Cassell, 1959.
Michael Ward, In This Short Span, Gollancz, 1972.
Tenzing Norkay (as told to James Ramsay Ullman), Man of Everest, Harrap, 1955.
Walt Unsworth, Everest, Allen Lane, 1981. Revised edition, Mountaineers Books/Bâton Wicks, 2000.
Chris Bonington, Annapurna, South Face, Cassell, 1971.
Don Whillans, 'Annapurna, South Face', Mountain, issue 12, 1970.
Reinhold Messner, The Big Walls, Kaye and Ward, 1978.
—The Seventh Grade, Kaye and Ward, 1974.
—The Challenge, Kaye and Ward, 1977.
—Everest: expedition to the ultimate, Kaye and Ward, 1979.
—Solo Nanga Parbat, Kaye and Ward, 1980.
Felix Kuen, 'Der Sieg und die Tragodie' (Triumph and Tragedy), Der Bergsteiger, November 1970.
Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, University of California Press, 1976.
Steve Roper, Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rock Climber, Mountaineers Books, 1994.
Warren 'Batso' Harding, Downward Bound: A Mad! Guide to Rock Climbing, Prentice Hall, 1975.
—'El Capitan', American Alpine Journal, volume XI, No. 2, 1959.
Nicholas O'Connell, Beyond Risk, Conversations with Climbers, Mountaineers Books, 1993.
Pete Kakeda, 'The Milestone', Climbing, No. 190, December 1999.
Lynn Hill, 'El Capitan Climbed Free', American Alpine Journal, volume 36, issue 68, 1994.
—'First Free Ascent of the Nose', American Alpine Journal, volume 37, issue 69, 1995.
Peter Boardman, The Shining Mountain, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978.
Joe Tasker, Savage Arena, Methuen, 1982.
Alan Hankinson and expedition members, Changabang, Heinemann Educational, 1975.
Andy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine Style, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.
Mick Fowler, Vertical Pleasure, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.
Mick Fowler, 'A Touch too Much', American Alpine Journal, volume 40, issue 72, 1998.
Andy Cave, 'Changabang: A World Apart', Alpine Journal, volume 103, 1998.
Julie-Ann Clyma, 'Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Sorrows', Alpine Journal, volume 103, 1998.
Andy Cave, 'Changabang, Storm and Sorrow', Climber, September 1997.
THE POLES
Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary, The Crossing of Antarctica, Cassell, 1958.
Edmund Hillary, No Latitude for Error, Hodder & Stoughton, 1961.
—Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975.
George Lowe, Because It Is There, Cassell, 1959.
Noel Barber, The White Desert, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958.
Wally Herbert, Across the Top of the World, G.P. Putnam, New York, 1974. (The American edition was expanded from a shorter account published under the same title by Longman, 1969.)
AIR
Charles McCarry, Double Eagle, W. H. Allen, 1980.
Leo Dickinson, Ballooning over Everest, Jonathan Cape, 1993.
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, The Greatest Adventure, Headline, 1999.
Bertrand Piccard, Une Trace dans le Ciel, Editions Oresol, 1999.
Richard Branson, Losing my Virginity, Virgin, 1998.
Brian Milton, Dalgety Flyer, Bloomsbury, 1990.
—Global Flyer, Mainstream Publishing Company, 1998.
Colin Prescot, To the Edge of Space, Boxtree/Macmillan.
BENEATH THE EARTH
Martyn Farr, The Darkness Beckons: the history and development of world cave diving, Diadem, 1981; new edition Vertebrate Publishing, 2017.
—'Caving International interview Geoff Yeadon on cave diving', Caving International Magazine, No.5, October 1979.
CONCLUSION
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Bantam, 1991
Doug Scott, 'On the Profundity Trail', Mountain, issue 15, May 1971.
J.R.L. Anderson, The Ulysses Factor, Hodder & Stoughton, 1970.
Ingrid Cranfield, The Challengers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.
Wilfrid Noyce, Springs of Adventure, John Murray, 1958.
Bob Drury, 'Hamari Kahani', Cross Country, edition 62, April/May 1999.