Book Club - Much Better Adventures Magazine

Book Club: Pico Iyer, The Half Known Life

"After years of travel, I’d begun to wonder what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict..."

From the icy wilds of Svalbard to the vast deserts of Morocco...

A book about recovery in the postnatal period, "the most challenging but rewarding endurance race imaginable"...

Zárate’s book explores the human costs of wood, gold and oil extraction in the Amazon and Andes of Peru...

“Where is the place your body is anchored? Which body of water is yours?"

One woman’s adventure through the remarkable landscapes of Morocco, from the Sahara to the mighty Atlas Mountains...

This practical yet poetic guide is a refreshing take on wild swimming, a sport surging in popularity...

Tharik Hussain's book is the first English travel narrative to explore indigenous Muslim Europe in the 21st century

Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment shows us the impact humans on the planet, and how nature can fight back...

Deputy Editor Dani Redd writes about identity, adventure and her novel 'The Arctic Curry Club', in this month's Book Club...

An in-depth look at the intrinsic value of the nonhuman world, with the philosopher and mountaineer Arne Næss.

“To write about Hell, it certainly helps if you have been there,” writes Ranulph Fiennes, in his new biography of Shackleton

A story of glaciers, wilderness and people, set from the Swiss Alps to Svalbard, Patagonia, in the Himalaya and beyond...

A 53,568-mile journey around the world with a junior doctor, drawn to health care at the margins of the world...

The accomplished French mountaineer Élisabeth Revol, on fighting for her life on the "killer mountain" Nanga Parbat