Vertebrate Publishing: 117 books
by Sarah Mussi
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Ellie Morgan wants a boy who's all hers. Just for once, it would be nice to meet someone that Sheila (the cow) hadn't got her claws in to. A remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon is hardly the ideal setting for meeting anyone - unless, of course, you count her best friend George or creepy Darren (which...
Adventures in Mind
A personal obsession with the mountains
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The last descent and I can't let myself think it's in the bag. Anything could happen, take it easy, take no risks. Just get to the finish and win. 'The challenge and anticipation that pushes me to try harder. The obsessive urge to achieve. It's not all about winning. Why do I do it?' Growing up in...
Upon That Mountain
The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the...
Climbing Down
Long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills in manageable chunks
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Graham Wilson's Climbing Down, selected as a Travel Book of the Week in The Guardian, features long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills — but in manageable chunks. Wilson makes an entertaining companion; once he was fit enough for the Bob Graham Round, now he's the victim of...
Everest 1951
The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
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 a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is the account of this expedition. It was the first to...
Land of Tempest
Travels in Patagonia: 1958-1962
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Land of Tempest reveals Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. He is an astute observer of nature and the human spirit, and this account of his travels is infused with with his own zest for discovery and the joy of camaraderie....
That Untravelled World
The autobiography of a pioneering mountaineer and explorer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
‘It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.’
That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. Eric Shipton was a pioneering explorer, journeying to places that did not feature...
The Ascent of Nanda Devi
I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya.
Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until 1950.
The...
China to Chitral
Mountains are the beginning and end of all scenery
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In China to Chitral H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan.
In 1951...
The Year
Reawakening the legend of cycling's hardest endurance record
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
In 1939 British cyclist Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Think about that for a second: that's an average of over 200 miles each day. And it's a mark that still stands after almost eighty years. In The Year, Dave Barter resurrects the legend of the year record - a challenge nearly...
Kamet Conquered
The historic first ascent of a Himalayan giant
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Frank Smythe’s fascinating book Kamet Conquered tells of his successful bid to make the first ascent of Kamet (7,756 metres) in 1931. Through Smythe, an experienced high-altitude mountaineer, the reader experiences all the tension, fatigue, discomfort and struggle of a major expedition but is also...
Virgin on Insanity
Coming of age on the world's toughest mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Outwardly, ‘Britain’s most experienced teenage Alpinist’ is a brave young mountaineer. But he’s not experienced at all, at least not in the way he really wants to be. Behind his death-defying climbs there lurks a great deal of fear – fear of the opposite sex, fear of failure, fear of not...
Battalion
A British infantry unit's actions from the battle of El Alamein to the Elbe, 1942-1945.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Alastair Borthwick's Battalion is the widely acclaimed story of a British Army infantry unit in the Second World War. Written in Germany just after VE Day, Battalion captures the immediate memories of troops at war. It gives the soldier's view of events, avoiding moralising or sensationalism, and...
Mischief among the Penguins
Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
‘Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.’
So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought...