What does it take to survive in the unknown?
Explorer and survival expert, Ed Stafford captures the spirit of adventure in 25 of the greatest expeditions of all time.
From 1864-2018, intrepid explorers blazed a trail with round-the-world records, the ascent of Everest, crossing the Australian desert by camel and kayaking the North Atlantic Ocean. They conquered mountains, deserts, jungles and seas venturing into the most remote and inhospitable climes on the planet.
Peeking inside each kit bag (including his own), Ed Stafford reveals how the great explorers achieved their awe-inspiring missions to find out more about our world, and how the equipment they carried with them determined the success or failure of their expedition.
Ed Stafford is a British explorer and the face of survival on the Discovery Channel. He holds the Guinness World Record for being the first person ever to walk the length of the Amazon River.
‘Walking from the Pacific, over the Andes and along the entire length of the Amazon to the Atlantic is truly extraordinary … To do all this in more than 800 continuous days with just a backpack puts Stafford’s endeavour in the top league of expeditions past and present.’
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
EPIC EXPEDITIONS was first published as an illustrated, large format hardback under the title EXPEDITIONS UNPACKED: What the Great Explorers Took into the Unknown. This new paperback edition includes a black and white photograph of each explorer and a black and white illustration of their kit.
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Nellie Bly
Round the world in 72 days
Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Race to the Pole: Terra Nova expedition
Roald Amundsen
Race to the Pole: Norwegian expedition
Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett
Search for the lost city of ‘Z’
Eva Dickson
First woman to cross the Sahara by car
Clärenore Stinnes
First circumnavigation of the globe by production car
Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Thor Heyerdahl
Kon-Tiki expedition
Jacques Cousteau
First underwater archaeology operation
Sir Edmund Hillary 84
Everest first ascent
Tim Slessor
London to Singapore by Land Rover
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
First solo-sailed circumnavigation of the globe
Robyn Davidson
Trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Transglobe expedition
Reinhold Messner
First ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen
Jason Lewis
First human-powered circumnavigation of the globe
Alastair Humphreys
Cycle around the world
Rune Gjeldnes
Longest solo ski journey
Ed Stafford
Walking the Amazon
Sarah Outen
London2London
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg
First round-the-world solar flight
Fedor Konyukhov
Fastest round-the-world balloon flight
Olly Hicks and George Bullard
Greenland to Scotland by kayak
Apa Sherpa
Twenty-one Everest ascents
Laura Bingham
First team to locate the source of and navigate the Essequibo River, Guyana
Sobre el autor
Ed Stafford is the Guinness World Record-holding first person to walk the Amazon River. Sir Ranulph Fiennes described his expedition as being ‘truly extraordinary… in the top league of expeditions past and present.’ A former British Army captain, Ed filmed and blogged his deadly journey and engaged followers all over the world for almost two-and-a-half years. His footage was made into a Discovery Channel documentary and was sold to over 100 countries and he authored the best-selling book, Walking the Amazon. Ed has gone on to film seven survival series and is now an established face of Discovery Channel, and his seventh series, Ed Stafford: First Man Out, aired in late 2018 globally.
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