Collins Classics – South (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
Geographical discovery & exploration
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands
‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist’s canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE
‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater
Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea
This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet.
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?
Map Addict: The Bestselling Tale of an Obsession: Unabridged edition
‘My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it’s said…’
Snow Widows: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind
‘An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry … A welcome contribution to polar studies.’ Sara Wheeler, Spectator
‘[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill…takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief’ The Times
My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019
Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play.
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific
Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards for general history
‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of Longitude
Slowly Down the Ganges: Unabridged edition
‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby’s self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history.
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe’ Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year
Collins New Naturalist Library – Caves and Cave Life (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 79)
Cave exploration has uncovered archaeological finds which have enhanced our understanding of human evolution, and fossil remains, such as woolly mammoths, which reveal something of the Pleistocene animal world. But perhaps most fascinating of all is the living natural history of caves.
Collins New Naturalist Library – The Peak District (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 44)
A survey of great interest to naturalists and to the thousands of ramblers who visit the Peak District.
Traveller’s Guide – Wildlife of the Arctic (Traveller’s Guide)
This book celebrates the Arctic, exploring the natural history that has so inspired generations.
Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain: Unabridged edition
‘Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures’ Robert Macfarlane
Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you.
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures
‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Books of the Year
‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity… [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS