One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland, following in the footsteps of previous explorers and making his own discoveries.

In 1972, a Fairchild plane crashed in the Andes mountains. The survivors were hopelessly lost in one of the most remote places on earth. After eight days of heavy snowfall, the rescue attempt was abandoned. Even if the plane could be found, the likelihood of the forty-five passengers and crew being discovered alive was remote.

An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.

Peter Fleming and Eva Maillart set out across a China torn by civil war to journey through Sinkiang to British India. This account also offers an insight into the last days of the Great Game, when Britain and Russia still faced each other across a Central Asia in a state of anarchy.

Brazilian Adventure is the story of Peter Fleming's involvement in the expedition to find Colonel Fawcett, who disappeared in Central Brazil searching for a lost city which had been reported in the 18th century.

Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu.